Tag: sandhill crane

In Search of the Unusual

A couple of days ago I found myself standing along the Yellowstone River with about 150 other people, photographing a grizzly across the river with his elk calf meal.  Don't…
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A Sandhill Crane Family Versus a Black Bear

Two years ago we spent a lot of time watching a pair of sandhill cranes nesting and raising their babies at Floating Island Lake on the north side of Yellowstone.…
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Memories

After 4 long days of driving we got to Yellowstone this last Saturday. Finally home!! We didn't go into the park until Sunday morning. We have been to Yellowstone almost…
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Sandhill Crane and Butterflies – Spring 2015 comes way early

Overcast and dull all day long, I believe it was supposed to rain yesterday and today but not a drop until this evening, and it has already stopped.  Something like…
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A Yellowstone Music Video

I want to tell you a story of how one thing leads to another, and sometimes in the most unexpected ways. In 1974 I graduated with a BS degree from…
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Sandhill Cranes Migrate the Same Way We Do

We spent a month at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, in part of October and November of this year on our way home from Yellowstone. Today I…
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Sandhills Cranes in Yellowstone – Part 3 – Winter

The encounter between the black bear and the sandhills I told you about yesterday happened on July 13th, just after the second baby hatched. The sandhill family continued to spend…
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Sandhills Cranes in Yellowstone – Part 2 – A Most Unusual Encounter

This is a continuation of a story I started yesterday about a sandhill crane family who lived at Floating Island Lake in Yellowstone. They spent their nights on the island…
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Sandhills Cranes in Yellowstone – Part 1

This is a story about a specific family of sandhill cranes in Yellowstone. Many parts of this story are representative of all sandhills as far as the type of habitat…
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A Strange Evening

My husband has had a stomach virus and I needed to get some computer work done so we stayed home most of today. But this evening we got cabin fever…
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Do not cross a Sandhill Crane!

  Been a couple of slow days for photo ops - in fact, zero photos for two days.  The sky has been an endless blue of bright sunshine, which does…
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Birds, birds and more birds

Most folks would assume that I only care about the wolves, bears and ungulates when it comes to my photography or the animals that I enjoy but the truth is…
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