sandhill cranes

[boxofdelights]

So I've been back from the hospital for two weeks. I still have a sore throat, but I'm still testing negative for Covid. And getting more energetic every day! I was outside with my hands in the soil the other day, and my husband said, "That's the happiest I've seen you in two weeks!"



Yesterday, about 5:30, I heard the sandhill cranes flying north. My husband came into the back yard as I was hobbling up the steps to the back door. "Do you hear that? Do you hear that?" I called to him. I stuck my head inside and yelled, "Phoebe! Come out and listen!" Phoebe came out and started laughing with joy. She has seen thousands of the sandhill cranes overwintering in New Mexico, and this was just a small group, maybe sixty, flying overhead for a few moments, but it was a delight. They don't sound like anything else.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sandhill_Crane/sounds

Comments

[lunabee34]

You look so content with the doggos, and they look overjoyed to be sitting with you.

<3

[misbegotten]

So glad you're home! That is a gorgeous iris.

[andrewducker]

Glad you're home again, and much happier. All things worth celebrating.

[bibliofile]

Glad you're at home and recovering! With support from people and your adoring dogs.

I don't think I've ever seen that many sandhill cranes together, much less heard them. So cool.

[cimorene]

What sweeties! It's so nice to be surrounded by one's animal family members.

Hooray!

[jesse_the_k]

We've got scores of Sandhills living in city parks (since our parks often include marshes). There's also a pair that lives in the playground equipment next to a nearby golf course.

I think they sounds like manual garage-door springs.

So glad you're healing up.

[pameladean]

Awwww, everybody looks so happy in the photo. Matilda looks as if she could not be ill-behaved if she tried.

I've only once seen a large group of cranes. We were driving home from a state park where we'd heard them conversing loudly, but seen none, and suddenly realized that a field of solar panels was full of some large bird poking around. It was twilight, but eventually we could see that they were sandhill cranes. Something very tasty was apparently under the solar panels.

P.