Random Sandhill Crane Head
On the off chance anyone needs a cleansing bird, how about a sandhill crane head? Check out that red patch of bare, red skin. Look at the nares (nose hole) you can see right through it, just like you can on a turkey vulture. Those yellow eyes are mesmerizing.You can get so frickin' close to the birds here in Florida. I'm now asking myself why I have led trips for the past ten years to Nebraska (to an incredibly cold blind) to watch a several thousand mostly at a distance who freak out when you get too close. Here in Florida at the Space Coast Birding and Nature Festival, they kind of look at you and almost seem offended if you only take a few photos.
Granted, it is a tad chilly right now, but nothing like some of those mornings on the Platte River in March.
Labels: Bird Festivals, digiscoping, Florida, sandhill cranes, Space Coast Bird Festival
posted by birdchick at 1:05 PM
9 Comments:
Would make a nice postage stamp!
Thanks for the warm update ... !!!
It's 30 here in the balmy Pacific NW Grrrr ........
LOL I thought you were going to show us a disembodied crane head like the lizard in your last post. This is much nicer. :-)
I hope it warms up for you all soon!
reached here thru Fat birder. U have a awsome blog. Will take me quite some time to go thru it.
It's not just the Space Coast - the birds down in the Everglades were just as cooperative when I was down there!
Hi Birdchick,
I was wondering if you could help me with something. I'm going to the southwestern USA to study the desert in the spring, and was wondering if any of your birdy-blogger buddies blog from that general area?
Thanks!
Nicki
I know what you mean about Florida birds being cooperative. Last time I was in the Everglades, I was able to take video of a Cooper's Hawk from all angles at a distance of 3' or less. Our birds in Texas are not usually so mellow.
I've gotta go down there sometime.
Nice pic!
Hi Sharon
And it was nice and warm last weekend in Florida. I am adding your blog to my reader and putting a link to on my birding Peru blog.
Maybe next year I can fit in the Space Coast Festival. Sounds like you are seing a lot of nice birds.
Saludos
Gunnar Engblom
A Birding Blog from Peru
Nice shot! Sandhill cranes are easily my favorite bird. They're around here at this time of year (Sacramento Valley), but I've seen them in northeastern California in the summer, and their attitude is way different. They let you get very close in the summer, where right now if you are across a pond from them they freak out.
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