Sand Hill Cranes

These are pictures of the Sand Hill Cranes and their 2 babies. The bottom picture includes Carole's new acquisition...her trailer. These cranes are part of the every day life at our park and we call them "the boys". They wander the winding roads most of the day and have little or no fear of humans. You just can't approach them close enough to touch. With the babies, I'm sure the parents would attack you if you got too close.


One of my favorite funny memories is one day when my husband was in our front yard desperately trying to pull start a gas lawn mower. He'd yank and yank with no luck. One of the "boys" wandered up the road with long, elegant strides and stopped to watch this demonstration. Soon another crane came along and stopped to watch also. Dennis continued to yank on the lawn mower cord until there were 5 large cranes standing together watching him. They'd bend their heads from side to side in wonder and amazement at the antics this silly human was performing.

Dennis was in no mood to think this was cute but I did.