Whooping cranes

dbaker1221

just a few more

Harv

Beautiful work, Dave. You nailed these and we all know how tough exposing for white can be.

Ric Grupe

Cool bird...nice shots!

At least a cloudy day helps when exposing white.

Maestro

Lovely shots of a very handsome bird. Great job getting the whites right in the exposure! Do you know if these migrate or do they stay put year-round?

dbaker1221

Harv wrote:

Beautiful work, Dave. You nailed these and we all know how tough exposing for white can be.

thanks Harv. white is evil!!!

dbaker1221

Ric Grupe wrote:

Cool bird...nice shots!

At least a cloudy day helps when exposing white.

thanks

yup...this was the only time I was happy that it was coudy:D

dbaker1221

Maestro wrote:

Lovely shots of a very handsome bird. Great job getting the whites right in the exposure! Do you know if these migrate or do they stay put year-round?

Thanks.

I believe these two stay here year round.. this crane is an endangered species I believe. they take the young ones to raise (dress all in white & feed them with a hand puppet like a real crane ) & teach them to migrate to Fla. There was a tornado down in Fla. last year after they migrated down there & killed a bunch of them.. I thought I read where they spotted 1 alive somewhere...maybe Harry knows more

Interesting info here at the International crane foundation
http://www.savingcranes.org/species/whooping.cfm

Harryb

Very nice work Dave.

raptorcaptor

Cool set Dave! Like the second one best!

dbaker1221

raptorcaptor wrote:

Cool set Dave! Like the second one best!

Thanks Glenn

Shasoc

Very nice set. Good job handling the exposure. The third shot is my favorite.

BigAl

Well done on the detail in the white Dave!

Were these also taken at the Crane Centre? It looks as though the primaries have been clipped??

Maestro

dbaker1221 wrote:

Thanks.

I believe these two stay here year round.. this crane is an endangered species I believe. they take the young ones to raise (dress all in white & feed them with a hand puppet like a real crane ) & teach them to migrate to Fla. There was a tornado down in Fla. last year after they migrated down there & killed a bunch of them.. I thought I read where they spotted 1 alive somewhere...maybe Harry knows more

Interesting info here at the International crane foundation
http://www.savingcranes.org/species/whooping.cfm

You are correct. They are extremely endangered. I plan on making a trip to Port Aransas later on this year where one of the few migrating colonies winters. Also, I heard about the cranes that were killed in Fla. I think 19 or so ending up being killed which is devastating to a species with so few numbers left.

Thanks for the link.

dbaker1221

Shasoc wrote:

Very nice set. Good job handling the exposure. The third shot is my favorite.

thank you

dbaker1221

BigAl wrote:

Well done on the detail in the white Dave!

Were these also taken at the Crane Centre? It looks as though the primaries have been clipped??

thanks Al...yes ...they are breeding them & trying to set up a wisconsin to florida migration route that was lost when the population went down to almost nothing.

great info on it here.........http://www.savingcranes.org/species/whooping.cfm

dbaker1221

Maestro wrote:

You are correct. They are extremely endangered. I plan on making a trip to Port Aransas later on this year where one of the few migrating colonies winters. Also, I heard about the cranes that were killed in Fla. I think 19 or so ending up being killed which is devastating to a species with so few numbers left.

Thanks for the link.

that sounds like a cool trip