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<\/p>\nI don’t have many flight shots of Sandhill Cranes that really please me because most of them\u00a0have plain sky as background or there’s no light under the wings\u00a0or the birds are flying mostly away from me soon after take-off.\u00a0 And some of the images I’ve kept of these birds have more than one of those “flaws”.\u00a0 I like this\u00a0photo partly because it has none of them.<\/p>\n
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1\/2000, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The image was taken just over two months ago near Capitol Reef National Park as the crane was flying in to feed in an agricultural field.\u00a0 There’s a high plateau in the lower background to provide some interest, there’s light under the wings because the image was taken soon after sunrise as the bird banked in flight and the crane is flying mostly toward me as it came in to land.\u00a0 And it was close enough that I was able to get good detail.\u00a0 I posted a different but similar image of this bird a couple of months ago but I liked this one too.<\/p>\n I started thinking about Sandhill Cranes for this post\u00a0because a few days ago I drove through some of the mountain valleys in the Wasatch Range where I usually see these birds this time of year and they seemed to be totally absent.\u00a0 I hope that was just a happenstance of observation and not an actual fact.\u00a0 Earlier this spring I did see a lot of them migrating through.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started thinking about Sandhill Cranes for this post because a few days ago I drove through some of the mountain valleys in the Wasatch Range where I usually see these birds this time of year and they seemed to be totally absent. I hope that was just a happenstance of observation and not an actual fact. Earlier this spring I did see a lot of them migrating through.<\/p>\n