It's that time of year when the Sandhill Cranes start foraging the spring fields with their newly hatched colts. It's a lovely sight indeed . . .

Here's something you don't see every day, a Leucistic Sandhill Crane. This fall while watching the sandhills come in waves from the northwest to circle and land in the marsh, one really stood out as the sun highlighted its white wings . . .

The wind was quite blustery out of the north, and I was fascinated by the sandhill cranes that would ride the wind to the south with speed and then bank back to the north to land in the field. As they glided back to the north . . .

Two sandhill cranes pause for a moment from foraging to enjoy a beautiful sunset.

A little Sandhill Crane colt is on the move trying to catch up with its sibling and parents. Look at those tiny dinosaur feet!

Hello my old friend! Sandhill Cranes have one of the longest fossil histories of any currently existing bird. The oldest unequivocal sandhill crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, older by half than the earliest remains of most living species of birds, primarily found from after the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary some 1.8 million years ago. (source: Wikipedia?"