"Take me to the river . . ."

Cranes!

The Spring Migration of the Sandhill Cranes
Platte River
Nebraska

The largest concentration of cranes in world for just a few weeks.

Imagine tens of thousands of wings overhead and the bugling of the cranes...

Photographs taken at:
The Rowe Sanctuary and Iain Nicholson Audubon Center
on the Platte River, Gibbon, Nebraska.

From blinds on the river at dawn and dusk.

Sunrise from an old railway bridge over the Platte River near Kearney.

Birds in farmer's fields, eating to prepare for their long trip to the Far North.