I spotted them from the road and at first thought they were just Herons. Got out and walked down as close as I could which wasn't all that close and discovered they were Sandhill Cranes! Whoop Whoop!! First time seeing them here. I went to Kearney, Nebraska a few years to see the migration...what a sight to behold!
The background was so busy it distracts from the birds...some kind of fuzzy white weeds blowing in the wind. Go figure! :)
The Sandhills are amazing creatures, I've read where the flock when migrating, can fly as high as 20,000 feet. We see a few flocks in the spring and fall as they pass over, but they're low enough to hear them.
