For a few weeks, this valley amid America becomes the closest scene possible to the American Serengeti of Lewis and Clark, a spectacle of wholly wild sight and sound that every Great Plains enthusiast must witness at least once in life. The Platte River population of sandhill cranes slumbers by dusk and rises by dawn, soaring aloft and out to the corn fields daily for a few weeks, in order to fatten up for the longest part of their migration to the subarctic Far North, and in the process, captivating many humans on the ground.
6 W Doniphan NE (23 Mar 7) Looking E
40.772, -98.4926Sandhill Crane Sunrise 2
For a few weeks, this valley amid America becomes the closest scene possible to the American Serengeti of Lewis and Clark, a spectacle of wholly wild sight and sound that every Great Plains enthusiast must witness at least once in life. The Platte River population of sandhill cranes slumbers by dusk and rises by dawn, soaring aloft and out to the corn fields daily for a few weeks, in order to fatten up for the longest part of their migration to the subarctic Far North, and in the process, captivating many humans on the ground.
6 W Doniphan NE (23 Mar 7) Looking E
40.772, -98.4926