A fellow photographer was kind enough to share with me a location with 2 Sandhill Crane nests recently. I timed it right today and arrived after the first egg hatched this morning. The little chick was up trying to walk around and even went in the water a little bit […]
Spent the morning out at the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland this morning. Hiked 7.5 miles by 10 AM. The sunrise wasn’t super exciting but got a few decent shots. The gators weren’t too lively. The highlight was probably the Sandhill Crane family with two parents and a colt […]
Sandhill Cranes are very interesting birds to watch. In lots of places in Florida they are fairly habituated and you can get pretty close. Usually in spring you start to see the little baby fluff ball babies. In the beginning they actually sit on mom’s back. Once they are big […]
I took my 2, 5, and 8 year old girls on their first camping trip earlier this year. We went to Myakka River State Park which has always been one of my favorite parks. I love how much wildlife you can see. There are also a bunch of short trails […]
Just a cute baby sandhill crane and one of it’s parents from Myakka River State Park.
Well, we took our first camping trip with our three girls, ages 7, 5 and 2. We went to Myakka River State Park which has always been one of my favorite places in Florida and did an overnight camping trip this past Saturday. It went really well. The girls did […]
A few more of my favorite from Viera Wetlands. TOnight I have a shot of a Sandhill Crane that was in the middle of what I can only assume must have been some kind of courtship dance. There was a lot of hopping around and different poses. The other shot […]
I saw that the sandhill crane chicks were back at the Circle B Bar Reserve again. Can’t believe it is that time of year again already. [facebook]
Sandhill Cranes are some of the most interesting birds to watch in Florida. They can get pretty big and a lot of them are pretty habituated to humans which can both help and harm the photography aspect. In these shots you can see the main stages of growth of the […]
“Sandhill cranes raise one brood per year. In non-migratory populations, egg-laying can begin as early as December or as late as August. In migratory populations, egg-laying usually begins between early April and late May. Both members of a breeding pair build the nest using plant material from the surrounding areas. […]