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Monte Vista Colorado Cranes. What I am told is most of these cranes are from Bosque Del Apache, this is a rest stop for them on their trip North.














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Fantastic lighting on some of those! We get the winter end of the migration here, a park about 40 miles from me near Gainesville claims to have as many as 5000 pairs that winter there. From the sound some years it wouldn't surprise me. We have some that stay year round as well, always interesting to me is how close you can get to them - I've walked up to within a few feet of them and they don't spook.

Larry Sullivan wrote:Fantastic lighting on some of those! We get the winter end of the migration here, a park about 40 miles from me near Gainesville claims to have as many as 5000 pairs that winter there. From the sound some years it wouldn't surprise me. We have some that stay year round as well, always interesting to me is how close you can get to them - I've walked up to within a few feet of them and they don't spook.

25 to 30 yards when they are on the ground around here.

Local information. In New Mexico there are few if any storks so these cranes (cousins to the stork) bring the babies.

Rich Murray wrote:Local information. In New Mexico there are few if any storks so these cranes (cousins to the stork) bring the babies.

I will have to try for a photo of a baby delivery.