Sand Hill Cranes

Well its getting close to Spring time and the new babies are coming out. Here is a couple of sand hill cranes with their new babies. These birds are protected so they no longer fear people. You can walk right up to them and they just look at you. These birds are not very smart. They will walk directly in front of your car and just stand there. They just strut all over this part of the state and no one bothers them. I have seen many near car accidents because people have to slam on their brakes to miss these stupid birds walking out into the road.

Below is one of the babies from last year. The babies grow to "full size" in about six months. However, believe it or not, the young cranes are even less intelligent than the adults. This young adult is attacking itself in the car mirror.