Could it be?

It is Wings Over Willcox weekend, the annual birding festival in our nearby town. People come from all over the US to do some birdwatching in this valley because it is a birder's paradise. We regularly see all manner of raptors and song sparrows, but prominently featured during WOW are the sandhill cranes who overwinter here. They roost in the Playa and feed in the now harvested corn fields.

Today our cycling assignment called for standing intervals which require some hills, so we set out for Dragoon. We had barely gone 15 minutes when we were treated to a magnificent flyover by hundreds of cranes. We admired their formations and beautiful cries, but continued cycling. Then we noticed that our cadence counters on our cycle computers stopped functioning as the birds flew over. Could it be that some of them carried transmitters that interfered with ours?

Seeing the cranes made the ride, which is always enjoyable, very special.