Last weekend Dad and Raylene came up for a visit so Ben and I took them to see the cranes! I think that the story is every year they stop there beofre heading south for the winter. It is a field all for them and after they stay the night they take off in the morning. Every night a new batch arrives! Ben and I went last year but only saw a few hundrend because we went to early in the day! This time we went right before sun down and were blown away! Not only were there tons of cranes but there were tons of people! Dad told me I should hide my little old digital camera because everyone had professional cameras with them! I tried to get some good pictures but they were far away and my zoom only goes so far! These are sandhill cranes and they can get up to 3 1/2 feet tall and up to 150 pounds! Yikes! I know that it does not look like there are that many cranes in my pictures but the field is huge and I chose to get a closer look instead of taking of picture of the whole field. They also say that they fly in groups of 2 -500 and that when they pick a mate they stay together for life. 
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Kori,
That is way cool!! Randy and I saw a humongous group of snow geese one year flying in and landing that I wish I had had my camera with me. It is totally awesome to see groups of birds like that.
Can't wait to see you guys.
Love you,
Aunt Gail
Thankyou for commenting on my bird adventure! Congrats to your boys on getting accepted to their colleges! Can't wait to see you guys either!
Love - Kori
What an exciting thing-to see so many big birds as they migrate to
warmer climates!!!I can't imagine such a thing--ducks and geese I can
remember landing in the fields at Easton in large numbers when my kids were small and their Dad going
out to hunt(I don't remember having
to clean very many, though!!!) Must not have had a great gun or else wasn't much of an eagle-eye.
That is awesome, Kori!!! Is this at a wildlife refuge or just someone's field?
That would be really cool to see...kinda scary though...a 3.5 foot bird who outweighs me..wouldn't want it running after me!! Yikes!
Love you!!!
Kendall
Cranes are so neat! I never think of them being a bird that flies north in the spring, though. I always thing they reside more down south year round! Guess I learned something!
We have many Sandhill Cranes up here! They do almost look like a plane flying! On the way to North Dakota one day, we saw fields like that! They were full of them! Usually we only see a few together at our house. They aren't very pretty, but their size is what really catches your eye.
Kim
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