We’re pretty close to their flight path.
When I was growing up we had a landing strip on the top of our hill so my Dad could take off and land his plane. All it was was a flat stretch of cropland on top of the hill. When we hayed, the landing strip was the first place we picked the bales up from... (Hay bales are hard to see from a bird’s eye view, yet they are remarkably solid and running into one while landing a plane should be avoided at all costs.)
It still shows up as a landing strip on topographic maps, even though sometimes it’s now covered in corn and even Capt. Sully would be well advised to not attempt a landing there...
A few years back the Operation Migration ground support stopped by to ask permission to overnight on our land, if they needed, depending on variables such as weather and how far they could get each day. Turned out they didn’t need to, but it was still pretty neat...
i was up in alaska out on the tundra and they had a ton of cranes there. i guess they are not the same kind?