A Sandhill Crane Festival attendee looks through her binoculars at Scooteney Reservoir waiting for the cranes to do their nightly fly-over. The birds nested on islands in the reservoir during the night.
March 24, 2025
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Migratory visitors
Around 35,000 sandhill cranes visit the Basin
OTHELLO — People from throughout the Pacific Northwest gathered in and around Othello to catch a glimpse of an annual phenomenon. Whether they crept down backroads with binoculars and cameras poking out of windows or followed trumpeting and croaking noises to their quarry, visitors to the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival were looking for the majestic bird.