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Cranes flying at sunset. Mäntyharju, Finland. 2014.
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More Sandhill Cranes! This one is a 6 second exposure so you can see some "ghost birds" as they walked around. See more long exposure bird photos here: annemckinnell.com/2021/02/08/long-exposure-bird-photography/
Europese Kraanvogel - Common Crane (Grus Grus).
Adolescent from 2024 probably.
Distance 100m.
Still a very rare species.
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A sandhill crane joins the thousands that gather on Creamer's Field each fall...yes it is fall here in Fairbanks!
My lengthy year in review series continues.
This Sandhill Crane was photographed nearly a thousand miles south of the one I posted yesterday. For our first big trip of 2024, we headed to coastal Texas. First stop...Lamar Beach, where we usually find these cranes hanging out with their larger cousins, Whooping Cranes.
Several great birding spots near the coast from Corpus Christi to Port Lavaca draw us to this area every year.
Going after a crane intruder to their territory. We were standing on the boardwalk and the cranes came right at us. I mean really close!
Thanks so much for the visit!
London skyline with a constant collection of cranes on various building projects.
Taken from the roof of St Paul's Cathedral.
In a little over a week, we hope to be seeing these magnificent and endangered birds again. I found while this shot while going through some photos from previous years.
After several trips to their wintering grounds over the years I still get psyched in my anticipation for our next one.
P.S. Here's a link to the Cornell Lab's website with one of my Whooping Crane images on the front page: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Whooping_Crane/overview
When large numbers of cranes take to the sky, it is a sight (and sound) to behold ...
Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis)
San Luis Valley
Monte Vista NWR, Monte Vista, CO
ORDER: Gruiformes
FAMILY: Gruidae
Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis)
Monte Vista NWR, Monte Vista, CO
ORDER: Gruiformes
FAMILY: Gruidae
Mixing things up today with a few shots from my visit to London last week.
I had a full day of photography on Friday but due to Storm Eric I didn't get to do much outdoor photography, the day was grey, wet and windy so most of my shots are from various museums and some abstract shots.
This one was taken from the 14th floor of The Scalpel, where I was visiting my cousin who works there. Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed right to the top as they're still building, but as the weather was pretty grim I didn't really mind. It was good to meet up with my cousin who I've not seen in years!
London is a city in constant change and redevelopment. Everywhere you go there are more cranes being put up ready to make new buildings. The city already has a few skyscrapers, with more due to be built in the coming years. I really liked this view looking East across the city, it's a view not many people get to see unless you work in one of the neighbouring buildings.
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Cranes {Grus grus)
From the cycle - Birds of Europe. You can see more my photos from this cycle by entering "Pawel's Birds of Europe" in the search box.
Cranes inhabit the northern and central parts of Eurasia. They spend the summer there, and in the fall they depart for wintering sites in southern Europe and North Africa. During their migratory flights to wintering sites, they gather at the staging sites where they rest and feed in the middle of their migration.
Autumn crane gatherings are one of the most spectacular spectacles in the bird world. Birds arriving at the staging sites, often hundreds or even thousands of cranes, are heard even from a distance of several kilometers. Their voice is called a clangor and it is impossible to confuse it with any other sound. Birds prefer to spend the night in the shallows of water reservoirs, peat bogs and wet meadows. Shortly after sunrise, they scatter towards the feeding grounds, to gather again in the evening. In autumn, the birds gather in flocks from mid-July to November, sometimes even longer - until the first major frosts. After this period, the birds depart for wintering sites.
The photo shows one of the first summer bird gatherings. Birds come to this place every evening, usually after dark, to spend the night here. They stand all night in the shallow water of a vast peatbog. In the early morning, they depart for feeding grounds. At this time of the year, the day is still long, so there is a chance to photograph the cranes illuminated by the rays of the rising sun, which I managed to do that day.
Now there aren't many birds yet. But with each passing day there will be more of them, and in October there will be thousands of them here.