{"id":93204,"date":"2020-12-31T05:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=93204"},"modified":"2020-12-31T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T12:46:08","slug":"male-sandhill-crane-trying-to-impress-his-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/31\/male-sandhill-crane-trying-to-impress-his-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Sandhill Crane Trying To Impress His Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo with flaws that delights me anyway.<\/p>\n

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1\/640, f\/9, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This is an older photo of a pair of Sandhill Cranes taken shortly after sunrise along the Antelope Island causeway. It was early spring so courtship displays were on the agenda. The male in the background was performing one of several courtship displays collectively referred to as Dancing. This display in particular is called the Vertical Leap.<\/p>\n

I love the warm early morning light highlighting the always interesting behavior. The male was calling as he danced and just looking at the image causes me to hear that haunting call<\/a><\/span><\/span> in my head. Sandhill Crane calls have been variously described as trumpeting, bugling, rattling or croaking but no descriptor I can think of fully conveys the volume or the quality of the sound produced by mature Sandhill Cranes. If you’ve heard it in a wild setting you know exactly what I mean.<\/p>\n

The image has several features I’d call flaws, including the shaded face of the male with no light in his eye and the fact that his feet are hidden by the female so it’s hard for the viewer to fully appreciate just how far he’d leaped vertically.<\/p>\n

The fact that we can see just about the exact portion of his missing feet and legs in his reflection at the bottom of the frame just doesn’t quite cut it for me…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: If this photo looks familiar to some viewers it’s because I used to have some photo thumbnails similar to it in an image panel on the rotating banner at the top of my blog. I lost the rotating banner function when my old blog theme was no longer supported so I had to change themes. I miss that banner. <\/em><\/p>\n

This photo wasn’t in the banner and is new to my blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A photo with flaws that delights me anyway.<\/p>\n

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