Sandhill crane

We apologize for two days of no new posts….well, um….no, actually, we don’t apologize.  We took a well-deserved two-day rest to start the new year; so there!

Anyway, while schlepping around in painfully-cold temperatures, we were surprised to see a large skein of sandhill cranes flying over our house.  We cannot begin to imagine why this particular crew of birds had waited until morning temperatures reached one degree before lazily heading south.

Bundled up at the computer, we can only imagine how ‘refreshing’ it must feel to be cruising through the atmosphere in a subzero windchill, especially with long, hairless legs flopping in the breeze.

We must ask the important question that all outdoors enthusiasts have often wondered: do cranes suffer from frozen snot-cicles???

photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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