My parents will be leaving in a week. So I decided to take them sightseeing a bit. I took a half day off from school today and we went to a nature preserve to see these migrating cranes. They are called sandhill cranes... about 3.5 ft tall and have a 8 ft wingspan... mostly grayish white in color ... with a red crown. Every fall they would migrate from the north to the south enroute the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area. Tens of thousands of sandhill cranes would gather there till around late December before moving on to the south.
We got to the viewing area around 4:30 pm... at first there weren't a lot of them at the pasture. But then as the sun lowered itself down the horizon, thousands of these cranes flew in from all directions. My mom kept commenting on how they would glide and kite themselves down onto the land. They are very vocal too, making this "garooo-a-a-gor-a-a" sound all the time. Good dancers too. Two birds would stretch their necks and jump up and down, face to face... then others would join in. These birds are just magnificent animals.
My parents will be leaving in a week. So I decided to take them sightseeing a bit. I took a half day off from school today and we went to a nature preserve to see these migrating cranes. They are called sandhill cranes... about 3.5 ft tall and have a 8 ft wingspan... mostly grayish white in color ... with a red crown. Every fall they would migrate from the north to the south enroute the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area. Tens of thousands of sandhill cranes would gather there till around late December before moving on to the south.
We got to the viewing area around 4:30 pm... at first there weren't a lot of them at the pasture. But then as the sun lowered itself down the horizon, thousands of these cranes flew in from all directions. My mom kept commenting on how they would glide and kite themselves down onto the land. They are very vocal too, making this "garooo-a-a-gor-a-a" sound all the time. Good dancers too. Two birds would stretch their necks and jump up and down, face to face... then others would join in. These birds are just magnificent animals.
2 comments:
Oh wow, I thought they would finish migrating by now and be at somewhere very nice and warm. And "garooo-a-a-gor-a-a"? Ha! Nice immitation of the voice of the cranes.
I wish I can migrate too. (So cold already in Toronto.)
wouldn't it be nice to migrate? if I weren't being tied down with all these physical things and jobs and stuff like that, I would just do that. It's getting cold here too in Indiana. But we do have the sun, that helps.
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