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p.1 #1 · Whooping Crane

Taken at Necedah NWR in central Wisconsin. They raise them from eggs that they get from the Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wi. In the fall, a guy in an Ultralight aircraft shows them the way south! They return each year to Necedah.

Sprague Flow is in the northern part of the refuge. Looking west sunrise shot.

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Nov 01, 2007 at 07:18 PM

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p.1 #2 · Whooping Crane

Beautiful looking spot, Ric. The Whoops are very similar to the Sandhills we get
wintering here. Nice work on these...Will

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Nov 01, 2007 at 10:40 PM

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trenchmonkey wrote:
Beautiful looking spot, Ric. The Whoops are very similar to the Sandhills we get
wintering here. Nice work on these...Will

Thanks, Will.

I have some shots of Whooping and Sandhill cranes in the same frame. The Whoopers are whoppers! I'd say about 25% larger.

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Nov 07, 2007 at 06:37 PM

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p.1 #4 · Whooping Crane

neat shots and a good story

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Nov 08, 2007 at 04:02 PM

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p.1 #5 · Whooping Crane

Nice flying shot, Ric. We have one whooping crane at Haenhle Sanctuary, MI, hanging around with the thousands of migrating sandhill cranes. It's from Wisconsin..bands, etc.

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p.1 #6 · Whooping Crane

jmcfadden wrote:
neat shots and a good story

Thanks!

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Nov 08, 2007 at 10:09 PM

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Ray DeBosch wrote:
Nice flying shot, Ric. We have one whooping crane at Haenhle Sanctuary, MI, hanging around with the thousands of migrating sandhill cranes. It's from Wisconsin..bands, etc.

Thanks, Ray.

There were plenty of Sandhills at Necedah also.

I have one so so shot that has nine sandhills, four mallards, ten canada geese, three egrets, two great blue herons, and a bald eagle all in the same frame! I guess I hit Necedah just right. That was October first.

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Nov 08, 2007 at 10:16 PM

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p.1 #8 · Whooping Crane

This year (oh! how many years have I said that?!) I AM going to go to the Aransas Pass refuge and see those Whooping Cranes! And I only live about 3 hours drive away! Gotta Go! Gotta Go!

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Nov 08, 2007 at 10:19 PM

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mkweaver wrote:
This year (oh! how many years have I said that?!) I AM going to go to the Aransas Pass refuge and see those Whooping Cranes! And I only live about 3 hours drive away! Gotta Go! Gotta Go!

Are you there yet?

Let's see the pics!

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Nov 09, 2007 at 01:01 PM

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p.1 #10 · Whooping Crane

Nice job on the eyeball of the escaping bird as well as the color saturation on the trees. The first shot is quite amazing to me because you have apparently captured the eye of that bird like crazy...unless you post processed it, but I don't think you did any post on the eye of the bird. If you did I would appreciate you telling me that. Great shots

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Nov 10, 2007 at 02:25 AM

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Normcar21 wrote:
Nice job on the eyeball of the escaping bird as well as the color saturation on the trees. The first shot is quite amazing to me because you have apparently captured the eye of that bird like crazy...unless you post processed it, but I don't think you did any post on the eye of the bird. If you did I would appreciate you telling me that. Great shots

Thanks.

I did mask just the eye and added a tad of saturation and sharpening to it.

There were five of the cranes that flew in right over my head. They were so close that I could not get a quick shot because I had the minimum focusing distance set to the farther value and they were too close for the 400 DO IS with the 1.4 tc.

Nov 10, 2007 at 03:05 PM


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