Whooping Cranes
Feb 25, 2018 21:56:02 #
Feb 25, 2018 22:54:23 #
Nice catch ! .......I guess they forgot to go south for the Winter ?
Feb 26, 2018 01:21:17 #
Keldon
Loc: Yukon, B.C.
Wow! You are incredibly lucky to spot these. There are fewer than 500 of these birds in the wild. Great catch.
Feb 26, 2018 01:23:46 #
I want to go back to Rockport, TX at some point to see them but both Port Aransas and Rockport are still in recovery mode from Harvey. This would be the time to see the Whoopers, though. I did get some pics a few years ago.
Feb 26, 2018 03:16:17 #
Feb 26, 2018 06:59:50 #
I've seen them there a few times, never more than 3 or 4 at once. One of the birders that hangs out there told me that there is one of them that migrates with the Sandhills. We're seeing (and hearing) more and more pass overhead heading north., Spring is close!
Feb 26, 2018 07:43:14 #
I was at Goose Pond yesterday with the Roberts Camera group(3), but did not get photos this clear. The crane on the left does not appear to have a leg band. As I understand, that would indicate a bird hatched in the wild by captive raised parents. Nice capture.
Feb 26, 2018 08:53:19 #
The last couple of years, global warming, they have had a handful of Whooping Cranes hang around all most all winter. I think they are some younger ones. The unbanded bird in the picture was born in the wild in 2015. Goose Pond is a great birding area, almost 10 thousand acres turned back into wetlands. Huge flocks of Sandhill cranes and snow geese.
Feb 26, 2018 08:58:06 #
Robert R wrote:
I was at Goose Pond yesterday with the Roberts Camera group(3), but did not get photos this clear. The crane on the left does not appear to have a leg band. As I understand, that would indicate a bird hatched in the wild by captive raised parents. Nice capture.
I got the shot on Saturday with Roberts Camera.
Feb 26, 2018 09:53:58 #
Keldon wrote:
Wow! You are incredibly lucky to spot these. There are fewer than 500 of these birds in the wild. Great catch.
We were told that there are 104 east of the Mississippi, 12 are at Goose Pond, Indiana
Feb 26, 2018 17:57:16 #
Mar 2, 2018 14:20:01 #
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