"Never stop photographing. It is very likely that your best photograph has not yet been captured">
"You can observe a lot by just watching".
- Yogi Berra
How nature protects helpless creatures! This bird must have acquired the colour of sand after a million years in sandy area. Nice one of the crane with good colour and focus Sandi.
"The sand hills are sandy and full of Sandhill Cranes," said Sandi as she snapped another beautiful shot and took a bite from her sandwich. :) Good one Tigz.
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Your subject was a tad bashful Sandi. Just being modest I guess about being so nice looking. I don't believe I have seen one so orange in color before but also I haven't gotten this close to one before either. Your captures are all so good.
Did you know that the rust color on its feathers is from mud that is wiped off it bill. I read that the iron oxide in the mud stains the birds feather.
I like the photo of animals and people such as this, where they are not looking straight on or posed, but caught in the nature state. The sand cranes here in Florida look a bit different. Nice capture.
these birds were every where this year..i do believe i have a few somewhere around here..pictures that is, not the birds..they flew south, with my brains i believe.