Tinted skies of the sunrise hour host a rising streamer of sandhill cranes, outbound from their overnight riparian roost to the nutritious cornfields detritus of Nebraska’s Platte Valley. This was our first visit to the astounding spectacle that is hundreds of thousands of cranes rising from the river every morning and descending again by nightfall, their ancient calls filling the air in all directions. We would return ten years later for another photogenic rendezvous with the great flocks of the “American Serengeti”.
6 W Doniphan NE (23 Mar 7) Looking SE
40.772, -98.4926Sandhill Cranes in Auburn Sky
Tinted skies of the sunrise hour host a rising streamer of sandhill cranes, outbound from their overnight riparian roost to the nutritious cornfields detritus of Nebraska’s Platte Valley. This was our first visit to the astounding spectacle that is hundreds of thousands of cranes rising from the river every morning and descending again by nightfall, their ancient calls filling the air in all directions. We would return ten years later for another photogenic rendezvous with the great flocks of the “American Serengeti”.
6 W Doniphan NE (23 Mar 7) Looking SE
40.772, -98.4926