Sandhill Cranes were here today

[Don Lovel]

several thousand Sandhill Cranes flying all over the San Luis Valley right now
I am real proud of these pictures, trying to get good photos of cranes is way harder than you would think

 

[WendyZXZ]

Great pictures and some beautiful birds there!

 

[Pistolero]

Very nice photos!

 

[HAWKEYE#28]

THANK YOU!

 

[gramps]

Nice. Around here I hear them rather than see them. Occasionally, I will see them flying high after hearing them.
gramps

 

[salover]

Beautiful pictures. West of Wolf Creek Pass, before getting into Pagosa Springs, there's a field on the north side of the highway that nearly always has a large gaggle of Canadial geese feeding. Beautiful birds also.

 

[Cracker-American]

You have every right to be proud. Beautiful work.

Sandhills winter just south of us. During the south migration I can sometimes lure a group into spending the night here. A neat bird I never tire of watching.

 

[tookalisten]

I assume these are the same that you see on golf courses in Florida.
I go down to play a few rounds every summer with a friend who retired near Tampa. I enjoy seeing them on a course.

 

[NH Rugerman]

Wow, would love to be there to see those...beautiful, just beautiful birds to me...

 

[mhblaw]

Used to hunt them in the fall, but quit as the meat was not worth killing one.

 

[SATCOM]

We are fortunate to have a migration stop just 10 miles away in Carolina near the Savannah river.

Don's pictures with mountains in the background remind me of the Demoiselle crane, that migrate across the Himalayas at altitudes of up to 16,000 feet. Thats the altitudes flown by the C-47s while "Flying the Hump" during WWII.

Thanks for the pictures.

SATCOM