"Wake Up Call"
The start of the early morning fly out of hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes on the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska. One of the benefits of sleeping in a blind is waking to this lovely cacophony.
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"Early Movement"
Sandhill cranes on an early flight into the rising sun near Kearney, Nebraska.
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"Into the Setting Sun"
Sandhill cranes flying into sandbars on the Platte River as the sun sets near Kearney, Nebraska.
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"Stacked"
Sandhill cranes flying overhead in the early morning light near Kearney, Nebraska.
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"The Remains of the Day"
A small group of sandhill cranes staking out their area on a sandbar of the Platte River as the sun was setting near Kearney, Nebraska. They would soon be joined by hundreds of thousands of their closest friends.
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"Cause and Effect
Thousands of sandhill cranes over the Platte River in Nebraska last week. They were driven into the sky by the bald eagle that landed on one of their sandbars. This is a wider angle shot, but you can clearly see the eagle below the cranes. There were a pair of bald eagles in the area, one of whom was dining on a crane carcass up river from this shot.
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Cranes on the Platte River 🥰 10/10 would go see them again; a very hyped experience that turned out to be not overhyped in any way. #sandhillcranes #sandhillcrane #birds #nebraska #kearney #platteriver

it's an absolutely gorgeous day in the mid columbia basin so we've been outside hiking, birds everywhere, hoping to go see sandhill cranes as the migration is on. #birding #sandhillcranes