By Sandhill Cranes are not common in the Michigan commercial park where our office is, so sighting them grazing like geese was novel enough for me to pull over and shoot a few pictures.
A day or so later I saw these big birds strolling across our parking lot, and I alerted my co-workers, who scooted to various windows overlooking the pair. Pretty neat...until the birds did one better. Yesterday I was alerted that our resident cranes where literally at our front door.
Again, there was a flurry of office-workers lining up like sports fans, ogling and smiling at the unusual visit. It was rewarding to witness the quiet joy my fellow humans experienced. The cranes temporarily carried our concerns away on their funny, spindly legs.
We love this kind of post.
We don't have cranes around Soggibottom.....don't have cranes in England that I can think of although someone will tell me they are around...........!
Did you feed them?
You know we feed everything.
Beautifull birds.
Really pleased to see your blog is back...
x x x Soggibottom
Midge, Old Dear,
We don't feed them. They just wander around the commercial park, pecking and picking at the surroundings. I don't think they are nesting, or they would probably stick to one, smaller area.
Monday morning I drove past a Whitetall doe with two still-in-spots fawns. She was standing a few feet off the street, next to a nice retirement home.
Uplifting stuff.
Sunday, just before noon, I drove over the river in Cascade. It is a busy street. There was a bowhunter mid-bridge, with a fishing arrow nocked. Quite an unsettling sight. He was forty feet above the river, next to a park. Hopefully, forty or fifty people cell-phoned the police, and a nice officer had a chat with him.
Various views hereabouts.