I got a several photos of the cranes!  They are so very hard to sneak up on…I had to walk very, very carefully….taking only a few steps at a time and then waiting and waiting and waiting…no dogs, cats, children or husband along.  Just me and my camera.

It is a fact they are Sandhill Cranes…very lovely birds.

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In the hundreds that are wintering here, I see no Canada Geese with them.  Usually we have hundreds of geese and no Sandhill Cranes.

They enjoy the corn and they like to be with the cows.  The corn they seem to like the best is the hard-dent corn (corn you feed to animals and make corn bread from), the sweet corn fields they seem to shun.

The only other fields they like are the winter wheat fields, everything else is scorned.

Well, anyway, I made it!  Now we all know…

Sandhill Cranes!

Linda