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I stopped by West Richland on a return trip for Walla Walla and found a few sandhill cranes but many more should show up soon. IMG_3631
The Sandhill Cranes have stopped here for a week or two as they make their way south. Last couple of years they settled in less accessible places, but this year they're easier to shoot.
A small gesture to mark my solidarity with the people of Ukraine in these hard times. I folded origami cranes with all of the blue and yellow paper I had in the house. 2 from 11cm kami, 2 from 15cm,. 5 from 5cm and 1 from a scrap at 4cm. I used the paper from the two largest for two of the photos before I folded them.
Looking directly up to a crane. I stood in the middle of a road to get this shot I'll have you know!! And survived.... 😀
In Settle, North Yorkshire.
Of the 15 cranes that were flying over the marsh, only 2 landed. It would take me nearly 1/2 an hour to stalk and crawl on my knees to get this shot and not spook them.
These are Common Cranes (Grus grus) which breed across large areas of Northern Europe and Asia. They winter in warmer places like Spain, Southern Asia and parts of Africa, where I photographed these.
Cranes are a rare breeding bird in the UK with about 30 pairs, mostly in East Anglia. They started nesting in Britain in 1981 after an absence of hundreds of years. In Europe they are largely migratory but in Britain they are resident with birds from around the UK seeming to congregate in Norfolk. They breed when about four years old and typically live to about thirteen. They are large too, with a wingspan of 2.3 metres and weighing in at more than 5.5 kg. Compare this with Grey Heron with a wingspan of 1.85m and weighing a mere 1.5kg. They nest in quiet, undisturbed places and are very sensitive to disturbance. Apparently they were more common and widespread in the past but their similarity to Grey Herons makes assessment of historic reports difficult. Evidence of Cranes breeding comes from bones of half-grown Cranes found in Iron Age middens in Somerset and Orkney and place names like Cranfield, Cranbourne and Cranleigh are thought to be named after Cranes. And one final thing, the word pedigree comes via French for foot of Crane (Pied de Gru) because the symbol showing lineage (like the inner part of a peace sign but upside down) looks like a Crane's foot with equal length toes. If you don't know what I mean here's a peace sign: www.flickr.com/photos/luxfotograph/47991456742/in/photolist
I am in love with these elegant birds, so graceful and interesting to observe. The people of Hokkaido are doing great things building up their population of birds from a low of about 300 breeding pairs.
Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
The moment of observation is the real find ...
Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
The meaning of all this is the process!
Find someone who inspires shooting the camera!
Continuing with a snowy theme, a capture of the cranes from Hokkaido, I liked the abstract feel of this one, hope you do too.
Thanks for looking!
Sandhill Crane in the last light of the day.
Grus du Canada avec la dernière lueur du soleil.
Polk county, Florida, USA
This sandhill crane was standing cross-legged on a trail at Cypress Creek Natural Area in Jupiter, Florida. See this, and more, on my website at tom-claud.pixels.com.
Sandhill Crane - In the Wild - mated pair
Very Big-Birds! - massive 6ft 7in wingspan!
Autumn 2023 - mid-day - last Nov. day
Florida Everglades - Nov. 30th, 2023
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, Florida
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - sharp profile portrait]
*[Among the wading (big) birds of our area with extremely
long-legs and extremely wide-wingspans, they seem to be
MUCH BIGGER than the great-blue-herons and great-egrets]
*[When they all get 'honking together', even in-flight,
they are REALLY, REALLY LOUD! Fun to hear. LOL]
*[Incredible that these (two) are totally WILD and floating
around North America. They seem to return every winter]
The golden eye of a Sandhill Crane at Reifel Bird Sanctuary, Delta. Young cranes here are very used to a constant stream of visitors with bags of bird seed. But they become wilder when they are old enough to mate.
Or perhaps they are driven away by the resident pair, who want their chicks to fly off and experience the world. So they fly south with the migratory Sandhill Cranes who just visit the rich farmland around here for some easy pickings the kind farmers leave out for them and the thousands of snow geese that pass through in this season.
Pentax 300mm F4 lens and 1.4x teleconverter.
Staten Island Road near Walnut Grove, CA.
Got out-smarted. We made a trip to see the cranes hoping the smoke from the Camp Fire burn near Paradise would provide interesting photographic opportunities and it found it was just too thick for good photos and totally blocked out what was hoped to be a spectacular sunset.