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For those that photograph birds and animals, do you ever wonder what they might be thinking, in whatever manner their brains may function? This sandhill crane seems calm and content as night approaches.
Paper cranes at the Children’s Peace Monument, Hiroshima, Japan.
Sadako Sasaki, January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She was two years of age when the bomb was dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha—a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person". She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. She died at the age of 12 on October 25, 1955, at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.
Duane is 21 years 8 months and 4 days old.
He is an insomniac.
After reading about different solutions to get to sleep, he came across the paper crane.
According to myths, making 1000 origami cranes is therapeutic and is believed to be a symbol of luck and will grant your wish.
He has made 170 cranes.
Clydebank
Titan Clydebank, more commonly known as the Titan Crane is a 150-foot-high (46 m) cantilever crane at Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was designed to be used in the lifting of heavy equipment, such as engines and boilers, during the fitting-out of battleships and ocean liners at the John Brown & Company shipyard. It was also the world's first electrically powered cantilever crane, and the largest crane of its type at the time of its completion.
Situated at the end of a U-shaped fitting out basin, the crane was used to construct some of the largest ships of the 20th century, including the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2. The Category A Listed historical structure was refurbished in 2007 as a tourist attraction and shipbuilding museum. It is featured on the current Clydesdale Bank £5 note.
The crane count at Creamer's Field is now up to 1500 as the cranes gather before setting out on their fall migration back to Southern Texas or Northern Mexico.
In the morning the cranes will ride convection currents of raising air that are called kettles to get to altitude. They will then check the wind and if it's not blowing the right direction they will descend right back down to test the wind tomorrow. Suddenly one day they'll find the wind blowing the right direction and suddenly we'll have no cranes.
full moon, gorgeous morning......and hundreds of thousands of sand hill cranes, what an enjoyable experience ! spring migration as they make their way to nesting areas up north. that noise stays in your head for days !
This is a small number of several thousand European Cranes we found wintering in agricultural fields in northern Ethiopia. The ones with their beaks open are giving their wonderful trumpeting calls. Our British breeding Cranes are largely resident but the Russian breeding birds have to migrate to escape the winter. Many winter in Spain but large numbers also winter in Ethiopia, which is the furthest south they go. They used to be much commoner and more widespread in Britain and places like Cranham and Cranfield are named after Cranes.
Sandhill cranes migrate through central Nebraska, foraging in the cornfields and resting on sandbars in the Platte River at night.
Sandhill Cranes form extremely large flocks—into the tens of thousands—on their wintering grounds and during migration. They often migrate very high in the sky.
New Royal Adelaide Hospital site
I like to use available light on my macro shots, but sometimes you don't have a choice. This Crane Fly had settled down next to the dam for the night.
The larvae of Crane Flies are called Wire Worms and live in damp soil or rotting vegetation. The Crane Fly family Tupulidae is the largest family of flies in Australia with over 700 species. Some are very small and not easily noticed.
The Finnieston Crane, River Clyde, Glasgow
3exp HDR taken with the NDx1000 filter
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One from the archives. Nothing new for a while .. combination of gardening, lack of motivation and sh*te weather.
BTW .. for all those that have been kind enough to ask, Ollie finally lost his battle with the lymphoma a week or so back .. but his ghost is still padding around the house!
Sandhill cranes in flight
When we went looking for the Smith's Longspur three were a lot of sandhill cranes flying around.
None came close for crisp photos so this is what you get today.
Antigone canadensis
The Sandhill Crane’s call is a loud, rolling, trumpeting sound whose unique tone is a product of anatomy: Sandhill Cranes have long tracheas (windpipes) that coil into the sternum and help the sound develop a lower pitch and harmonics that add richness.
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.