Just returned from Rowe Sanctuary
in Nebraska where I spent a night in a photo blind. For anyone who has never been there, I highly recommend it. The spectacle of many thousands of migrating sandhill cranes is not something to be missed, and I'm not aware of anywhere else you'd have the opportunity to actually spend the night in the midst of them. I can't think of a better way to have spent my Easter eve/morning. I took along my 1D Mk III and 500 with 1.4x, 40D and 100-400, and my G10.
We had a nice sunset on Saturday:
Group flying into the sun:
Suddenly there was a huge takeoff of thousands of cranes. Since it was getting dark, I had my camera already set for longer exposures and I think it worked well for this scene:
Early the next morning, this is before 6:00:
We didn't have good light in the morning, as it was completely overcast. I tried to get creative with some early flight shots:
Multiply this by 10,000 times and you'll have an idea of what the place sounds like (check out this short YouTube video
I took if you really want to hear it):
Here's the blind, right on the river bank:
And my good luck mascot who made it all possible:
Fabulous shots and I cant imagine what it must have been like to see so may Sand Hills (your mascot "Whooper" did a good job)!!
