Highlights and Migration for Hatch Year 2002

Pre-Migration

• April 12 First to Hatch
• April 13 Cuddle Up
• April 16 Learning From Role Models
• April 18 Hey, Baby! First Lessons
• May 1 Catching On to Feeding
• May 3 Weighing In
• May 15 The Plane and the Plan
• May 21 Hello, World! All Chicks Hatched
• May 23 Exercise, Exercise
• June 10 Necedah Gets Ready for the Whooper Chicks
• June 12 Goodbye Patuxent, Hello Necedah
• June 15 Smart Dummies
• June 17 Flight School at Necedah
• June 28 All Chicks Now at Necedah!
• July 1 Whose Territory is This, Anyway?
• July 6 Swamp Monster!
• July 12 Two on the Ground and One in the Air
• July 14 Wolves and Other Dangers
• July 20 A Memorable Sight
• July 30 All Birds Fledged!
• August 6 She's BAAAAK
• August 25 Ten Together
• August 27 ARGH! Health Checks and Banding
• September 4 Feeling Betrayed--But Getting Over It
• September 10 Crabby Times
• September 11 Trying to Catch Up
• September 13 Foggy Days and Watching for Stress
• September 17 Back to Speed
• September 18 Seventeen Together--Except for One
• September 19 Calling All Colts!
• September 21 Sixteen Take Off Together
• September 24 Some New Details
• September 26 Up at Dawn
• September 30 New Target Date
• October 1 Following "Mom"
• October 3 Who Does What?
• October 7 Best Flight So Far!
• October 9 Ready, Set...
• October 10 Rainy Target Date: No Go
• October 11 Still Waiting in the Wings
• October 12 Grounded Again

The Migration

• October 13 Take Off--and a Big Mixup
• October 14 Regrouping
• October 15 Too Windy to Fly
• October 16 Twenty-three Miles With a Tailwind
• October 17 Miserable Day: No Go
• October 18 44.6 Miles and Holding
• October 19 Ditto for Today
• October 20 Airborne With Drop-outs Galore
• October 21 Headwinds Prevent Flight
• October 22 Standing Down in Green County, WI
• October 23 Still Too Windy
• October 24 S'no Go
• October 25 Grounded Again
• October 26 From Wisconsin to Illinois!
• October 27 Yee-haw! Another 47.9 Miles
• October 28 Gales Ground Migration
• October 29 More Wind, More Rain
• October 30 Longest Flight Yet!
• October 31 Indiana!
• November 1 Windy and Cold: Hanging Out
• November 2 Still on the Ground in Windy "Indy"
• November 3 Smooth Sailing to Boone County, IN
• November 4 No Flight Today
• November 5 Down and Out in Boone County
• November 6 Waiting
• November 7 Two Groups Now
• November 8 Teams Grounded by High Winds
• November 9 Still Grounded in Indiana
• November 10 Same Story
• November 11 Go Birds, Go!
• November 12 On a Roll! Into Kentucky
• November 13 Last Stop in Kentucky!
• November 14 Now in Tennessee!
• November 15 Stopped by Rain
• November 17 Weekend Weather Stalls Migration
• November 18 Up, Up and Away!
• November 19 Fogged in at Meigs County, TN
• November 20 Standing Down, but The Race is On
• November 21 Still Not Flying
• November 22 No Go
• November 23 Crew and Cranes Divided Again
• November 24 Together in Georgia--and Another Thrill!
• November 25 Onward, Cranes!
• November 26 Soaring Ahead
• November 27 19 Wild Whoopers in Florida!
• November 28 Chassahowitzka, Here They Come--82.5 Miles to Go!
• November 29 Almost Home Free!
• November 30 Whoop it Up! Migration Complete
• December 2 It's a Wrap!