First Sandhill's

jcdeboever · Mar 17, 2018

First one's I've seen this year. I have been hearing them the last couple of days and I see some have dug up my front yard to get at the worms. Well today they made an appearance. Terrible framing but it does show their beauty. XPro2, 100-400 with 1.4 TC. Man, I need some practice at this kind of stuff.

smoke665 · Mar 17, 2018

Unusual creatures. They had a couple dozen of them at one of the places we stayed in FL this year. I soon learned to hate them as they seemed to always choose right outside our bedroom window every morning at daylight to make those weird noises.

Cortian · Mar 18, 2018

I heard our friendly neighbourhood Sandhill Cranes, the ones of which I earlier posted photos, a couple times over the last couple weeks. Didn't see them, though. Next time I see 'em when the light's right I'll take new shots with the 40D and the better tele lens I now have.

zombiesniper · Mar 18, 2018

Very nice.

I love their calls. I always describe them as what I would expect a pterodactyl to sound like.

jcdeboever · Mar 18, 2018

zombiesniper said:
Very nice.

I love their calls. I always describe them as what I would expect a pterodactyl to sound like.

Thanks. I agree. My dog would chase fox, deer, coyotes, and squirrel. He pays zero attention to sandhill crane. Have no idea why. He walks up near to them but the two species ignore each other. That seems odd to me.