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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rockfowl" data-source="post: 1642731" data-attributes="member: 64295">Frank,Sounds like you had a good day depite the lack of 'big fellas', a few days left? I heard about this half-way staging post last year but still think that there must be one around Shanhauiguan. Surely unless the cranes are leaving before dawn, i.e in the early hours, that would be some flying to make it between 07.00 and 0.800 am through Beidaihe surely. In previous years we've been caught out quite a few times by these early groups.. Intruiging!They will however, as we've witnessed,  continue on into the night when not reaching suitable resting spots in time..Li Ming,I think this November is colder than last year, however, Why the Cranes are much later?I wish I knew! Maybe the successful protection and improvement at staging posts with supplemental food/setaside? - I'd like to think it was this factor rather than the opposite  .Global warming and the long term drought in NE China could also play a part. Either way, judging by Martin's link, they are better off in the North at the moment!PS How to get the information? such as where the Cranes are.......Some links on the web through Three White Cranes project run by the International Crane Foundation, see Russian and Chinese sections, and contacts in Northern China. Ask Jean to give you some contacts.Mark</blockquote>