Juvenile Sandhill Cranes

While visiting Minnesota this past weekend, one morning I took a short trip to nearby Sherburne NWR. During my past few trips to Minnesota, I always like to visit Sherburne … always seems to be a lot of things to photograph at this beautiful refuge. As I drove around “Wildlife Drive”, I came upon a […]

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Fun Friday: The Dance of Joy!

On my last full day along the Platte River, I continued my quest to capture some decent video of the Sandhill Cranes as they danced and jumped about in the cornfields. For the past few mornings, they would be dancing/jumping when I stopped the car on the roadway. But after pulling my camera up, they […]

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Transitioning to the Fields

After sunrise on my first morning along the Platte River (“First Morning on the Platte River”), I drove the surrounding farm roads, where the cranes typically feed in the cornfields. It really was not much of a challenge to find the cranes … they seemed to be about everywhere the cornfields had been cut low, […]

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Beddy-Bye Time

On my 2-day stopover in Quivira NWR in November, I was hoping to catch some migrating Whooping Cranes. Instead, all I got was several thousand Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) :o) Here are a few images I captured of groups of the cranes as they returned to the refuge in the evening, to roost: This gave […]

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A Sandhill Sunrise

On my last morning at Carlos Avery Wildlife Area (east-central Minnesota), I finally caught a break. I had been trying to capture birds (specifically, Sandhill Cranes and Trumpeter Swans) flying through either the fog, or through a colorful sunrise. On this morning, there was very little fog. But the skies were beginning to cloud over, […]

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Sandhill Juvies

Another bird I ran across at Carlos Avery, was the Sandhill Cranes … actually, a pair of juveniles cranes. They were busy grazing among some wildflowers on a small island in the wildlife area: Equipment Used: Canon 7D body Canon 100-400mm lens, at 390mm (handheld) ISO 400 Aperture f/5.6 (Av mode) Shutter speed 1/500 sec. […]

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