They scavenge the foliage
Laid waste by old Jack Frost…
Tag: sandhill cranes
The Undertaker and the Cranes
“What’s that?” Sandy asked Hilly as they walked in the frozen wasteland that had set upon the river at sunrise on all hallows’ eve… Read more at: http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/10/the-undertaker-and-the-cranes
I’M FREE
After different people were having trouble counting days to schedule a Pentamadine treatment I have to have 15 days the stem cell transplant… http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/10/im-free
Last Cranes First Bloom
Sandhill Cranes, the full bloom, Laurie working in the garden, and the latest beaver dam can be seen at http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/2/last-cranes-first-bloom
It’s a New Dawn, It’s a New Day, It’s a New Dam
It’s like the Battle of Evermore (note: there are no photos of Sasha on today’s photo blog) http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/1/its-a-new-dawn-it-s-a-new-day-it-s-a-new-dam
†You may have noticed I’ve been putting up lot of animated gifs lately. This is because I finally upgraded my old Core Duo Macbook Pro to a newer Macbook Pro with a Quad Core i7 processor and 16GB RAM. The last three generations of OS X had become progressively worse about managing memory on the Core Duo system, so doing much of anything was slow and cumbersome. It got the point that the special effects programs and add-ons wouldn’t work and I could only have one major program open at a time to accomplish anything in reasonable time. For over a year now, what looks like special effects in my photos are created from what I can do with exposure and adjustments in Camera RAW and that’s it, because, as I mentioned, all of the effects software quit working properly. Before the hardware upgrade, creating a simple, tiny, 2 image gif crashed the system. The latest OS X works very well with an i7 processor, so now I can create gifs until my heart’s content. They are a good way of putting multiple images on the WordPress side of my blog as either a preview or just fun images to look at before clicking through to the photo blog.
Crows in the Snow T – 4 Days
Fall Colors
Colors persist http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/12/fall-colors
Cranes after Sundown
Sandhill cranes flying down the Rio Grande. http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/11/cranes-after-sundown
First Cranes
Cranes in the clouds http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/10/first-cranes
Drags On The Rio Grande
After fording the shallows of the west fork of the Rio Grande to one of the large sandbars in the middle of the river, I was faced with a forest of salt cedar interspersed with thorny Russian Olive Trees as I bushwhacked my way across the sandbar to see what was happening along the wider, deeper water running on the east side of the sandbar. Figuring they were hidden from the shutters and eyes of humans they commonly see along the accessible areas to the river, the Sandhill Cranes were playing games, drag racing to be more specific, very much like what you might see in an old Far Side comic.
As I emerged from the orange-yellow briar patch, a couple of Sandhill Cranes took off in a race down the river, while another pair quivered behind the barbed wire starting line ready to start their drag race down the river. I was able to catch the second pair on film and narrate the action in each of the photos below.
Off Center & Not Even 