Marianne from Northview Diary asked me for a photo of the lovely Sandhill Cranes who winter around here.
So for your viewing pleasure
I bring to you a wee series of
Of those beautiful
Dancing Birds!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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Oh, thank you! Look at them dancing! That is simply awesome.
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You are most welcome!
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They make dancing look as easy as breathing. Sandhill Cranes are so graceful looking & beautiful. Have a great day. Sandy
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And Huge! Their wingspan is amazing!
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The videos I’ve seen of them is wonderful and I love to watch them dance!! Your pictures so a lot of that.
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They are HUGE birds…and they love to be with each other so the fields are just masses of them now.
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Thanks for sharing with us the beautiful cranes that visit you.
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We are very lucky!
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It is such a treat when we see them here in Minnesota!
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I think they must summer up there, do they?
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They are beautiful. Marianne’s pictures of a sky full of birds today was just scary.
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A scene from Alfred Hitchcock!
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Goodness, Linda!! In Sweden people could sell their mothers for pictures like that!!!
The cranes come here in two different periods, mostly around spring. We have a lake called Hornborgasjön where you can see up about 15-20000 cranes dancing and making an awful lot of noice. I once stumbled right in to them one autumn, when I was on retreat and they where taking a break on the fields of Öland, before going south.
Do you have them all winter?? I thought you had some snow, do they stay anyway???
Lovely pictures, Linda!!!!
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They come and stay all winter. They arrived when the Canada geese arrive and share the same cornfields with them. They leave about March sometime. I love having them. They ARE loud at different points! 🙂
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We will see them in early spring…and then a family of them has taken up a home in a field we pass by every week, it was fun last summer to look for them there, I hope they return this year! 🙂
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I hope so too!
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I love Sandhills cranes. I can never get that close to them. Great photos!
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They are terribly shy birds. Having them in the field with cows HELPS!
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I just love them. We only see them once a year, as they fly over :-/.
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We’ve had them for 8 years now. Before that we didn’t even know what they looked like!
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And it was definitely a pleasure! In spite of the cold, yours are much smarter than those in Florida that tend to hang out on golf courses — they frequently get broken legs because of being hit by errant drives.
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A corn field and a herd of cows are their homes here!
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Aren’t they wonderful .. dancers too! 😃
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Yes! The dance of the Crane!
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Beautiful photos, Linda! Thank you so much for sharing them ~ Hope to see them one day!
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Come in the winter! We have hundreds!
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