sandhill cranes

[glenn57]

sure have been seeing alot of them out and about the past 3 weeks. pretty neat!!!!!!!!!!!

[deadeye]

They usually start gathering in flocks about this time of year. 

[mike89]

interesting to watch...

[glenn57]

they sure do make some gawd aweful noises!!!!!!!!! definitely know there coming!!!!!!

[mike89]

heck I like hearing them...

[Rebel SS]

Then go buy a recording of 'em.

[mike89]

Then go buy a recording of 'em.

oh go listen to your cawchester birds!!!!!!!

then get back in the country!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

Ah, go read yer E-mails.

[mike89]

I would if I received an email!!! 

[Rebel SS]

Ya, right. I've sent ya 4 the past two days with no answer. Verified delivered.

[mike89]

none have shown up here?????

[Steve-o]

I remember in grade school when we were studying Lewis and Clark, the MN Voyagers, or something - that these guys said cranes were very tasty.  It would be neat if their numbers would increase to the point where there could be a hunting season.

[mike89]

there is in the NW part of the state...

[snow1]

Hunting season? seems every state has a season except Minn as usual,or a special permit,had plenty of chances to shoot'em in NoDak and canada over the years but passed as the cripples could do damage to my bird dog,but yeah guyz that shoot/eat them said they are the best grilled.

[mike89]

the first year to hunt them was 2010 I think, and it still is the NW part of the state only for now..

[Rebel SS]

Might be good not hunting them. Tough to get those legs down into the crock pot. 

[glenn57]

Might be good not hunting them. Tough to get those legs down into the crock pot. 

[Rebel SS]

WHAT??!?!  WHAT?!?!?! 

[Steve-o]

“Bizarre Foods” TV host Andrew Zimmern Samples Sandhill Cranes (from 2013)



The subject will soon be in the national spotlight as one of TV’s most famous chefs samples the bird known by some as “rib-eye in the sky.”

Andrew Zimmern, co-creator, host, and consulting producer of the Travel Channel series “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern,” visited the area to take part in a sandhill crane hunt Monday and to cook up some crane for his TV show.

If you run a Google search for “sandhill crane recipes,” you will find page after page of various cooking methods.  Nischan said, however, that the celebrity chef wanted to sample the true taste of sandhill crane, without “dressing it up.”  Zimmern simply wanted to do it straight-roll it in a little oil, salt and pepper-and then we grilled it rare.  Most hunters know that wild game is very lean and best cooked rare so it doesn’t dry out and toughen up.  After the crane came off the grill, they “rested it” 15 minutes, so it kept cooking to medium rare.

“As much as I love hunting, I will admit that I am not a huge fan of most wild game. But that was the finest piece of waterfowl or game I’ve ever put in my mouth,” Nischan said. “It had great texture, marbling … It was just amazing. You don’t have to dress it up like you do other game.”

[Rebel SS]

Poor birdie!! 

[glenn57]

Poor birdie!! 

bet you wouldnt say poor skwurrel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

Cranes don'r eat my 'maters and wreck my yard!!!     

[glenn57]

Cranes don'r eat my 'maters and wreck my yard!!!     

come on webs...........dere one of gods beautiful creatures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

So am I, and I'm in charge!          WTH....???

SOB!!!!! One just RAN OFF with my first almost ripe better boy!!!  ^#%$#Y% That does it!!!!   

[mike89]

never seen a tree rat eat maters!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

never seen a tree rat eat maters!!!!!

Seriously?! They get a few of mine every year! Picked two early girls yday that had chomps right outta them!!! They run along fence (skwirrel highway)  and go right down into the plant.....fence is 6' high. Plants are pretty big and bushy...maybe that's why...that's only two plants.

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[glenn57]

  i can see it already on the news...............rochester man goes all out caddyshack over skurrel taking tomato!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

F***N SKWIRREL!!   I KILL YOU!!!

[Bobberineyes]

That little bastage would be grilled up with that mater in his mouth..
Them cranes we hear a lot out west, on our walks they sound like they are right there,  but there still aways away. Good call on not hunting these guys with the dogs snow!!

[mike89]

I think your tree rats must get something from the Mayo!!!!! or the ally foks