crane
tall, red-crowned
calling, dancing, bowing
legs like broken sticks
sandhill
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At first, I thought these were a couple of young deer behind the trees, as we don’t get many cranes in the wooded portion of the state. They are a very old bird, and have a peculiar walk. They remind me of some kind of dinosaur. With their sandy brown backs, it’s easy to see why they’re called sandhills.
–photos by me
michaeljordahl 
They winter down here on the Gulf coast. Glad you got to see them.
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Yes, they’re something to see! We seem to be getting so many birds of all kinds this year, I took a picture of some Canadian geese yesterday with at least 130 birds in flight formation!
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just beautiful
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Great pics Michael! Cranes look much like herons. Funny that you said the cranes remind you of dinosaurs. My daughter Alissa and I saw herons on our west coast staycation recently. When we heard their peculiarly raw and piercing calls, my daughter remarked that this must be what pterodactyls would have sounded like. Primordial.
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Yes, very much! Pterodactyls, that’s what they sound like!
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beautiful birds
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