Sunday, September 20, 2009

Cranes...No, Not the Mechanical Kind...

A couple of weekends ago we went to a place up north to see cranes of all sorts. Most were behind chain link fences which made for horrible shots as the first three show, but the rest were not so bad.
White-Naped Crane

Eurasian Crane Preening


Eurasian Crane Gawking


Blue Cranes

Wattled Cranes

Big male Wattled Crane

This, and the rest that follow, are Whooping Cranes (one of the rarest birds in the world - only about 350 left!)





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