Between 200-300 cranes are regular winter visitors to our area (where hunting them is NOT permitted) and can be found feeding in rural Imperial Valley farm fields. Many of them spend the day feeding on waste piles of grain at a local feed mill just north of Keystone Road and west of Dogwood Road.
They can be seen flying in formation in the early evening to their roosting area just a few miles from our college off McConnell Road and Harris Road where privately-owned flooded fields are maintained by a local farmer. Trespassing is not permitted, but you can observe them from the roadway. If you watch them long enough, you may even see them "dancing" together!
