Photos 2018 » 180317-Crane Migration

Crane Migration.

The water tower in Adair, Iowa. 14 March 2018	A view from the scenic tower in Council Bluffs. 14...	Self-portrait of Judy with Shorty Wardrobe legally...	Judy on top of the scenic tower. 14 March 2018	Our first sight of the Sandhill Cranes just south of...	Cranes don't fly in "V" shapes, they fly in ribbons with...
Cranes in a cornfield fattening up for their trip to...	Cranes are very wary of humans and easily startle, just...	More cranes flying in the Nebraska sky. 14 March 2018	Often it seems like cranes fly in threads in the...	Judy got a little too close and spooked them. 14...	Cranes aren't the only things eating corn near Kearney,...
These are Ross Geese, also migrating north and fattening...	Ross geese taking flight en masse. 14 March 2018	Lots of Sandhill Cranes. 14 March 2018	The cranes flock to the Platte River at sundown to...	They seem to come in groups of 100-200. 14 March 2018	More cranes arriving at the Platte River at...
Even more. Cranes do not float, so they need the...	Next morning, the sunrise exodus is even more spectacular...	More sunrise birds leaving. 15 March 2018	A bird feeder at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe...	The Sandhill Cranes were not the only birds migrating. ...	Both Bill and Judy remembered from their childhoods...
This is why not. 15 March 2018	Minden, Nebraska. Home of Pioneer Village. 15 March...	A buffalo made of tire chains on display outside the...	An information tablet at the Crane Trust. 15 March 2018	Nebraska fields in March. 15 March 2018	Beeves at the Crane Trust. 15 March 2018
We were not lost. 15 March 2018	This plaque explains the next picture. 16 March 2018	At the Archway, just outside Kearney. 16 March 2018	The Archway must have found a classic motel sign...	Entering "The Bricks" area of downtown Kearney. 16...	"The Bricks" - aptly named because of the...
A former federal building and post office, now the home...	Inside MONA - Doug Johnson: "The Persistence of...	Martha Pettigrew: "California Coast - Cambria"; oil on...	Roberta Barnes: "Almost Heaven"; thread painting,...	"Almost Heaven", closer. 16 March 2018	Jeremy Gooding: "Orange Vase"; oil, 2016 and "Blue...
The marble staircase to the second floor, with a Sandhill...	Jave Yoshimoto: "Baptism of concrete estuary" (detail);...	"Baptism of concrete estuary". This is all one...	I-80 marker for Kearney, Nebraska. 16 March 2018	More Sandhill Cranes and Ross Geese. 16 March 2018	The farmers don't plant their new corn until the crane...
The Platte River. 16 March 2018	Ice on trees along I-80 in central Iowa. We are glad we...	Ice-encased trees and shrubs near a gas station in...	The ice was thick. 17 March 2018

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