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