I was woken this morning by the very loud sound of whooping cranes and found a pair outside my window!!
LOL my cat Shadow heard 'em too
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sorry the photos are a bit fuzzy but they were taken through the window screen


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Wow! That's really something, Chemar. I wouldn't even have known what they were, lol! Shadow certainly seems interested!

Thanks for sharing those very nice pics!
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Clearly Shadow wanted an early Christmas feast. Very Cool Pictures Thanks!

Dottie

That is so cool! Thanks for the pics. LOL at Shadow!

hmmmm I was checking National Geographic and based on the color and sound I think these are actually Sandhill Cranes..... not Whooping Cranes......

these make a rolling trill that is very loud! kinda sounded whooping to me
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and they have blueish gray feathers

seems the whoopers have white bods and have a more shrill cry rather than these

here is nat geo page on the ones I saw (tho mine definitely have bluer feathers, but the sound was similar tho a longer trill)

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We have Sandhill Cranes upNorth...they make really strange sounds!

I bet Shadow was totally intrigued!

Our Oreo has a "thing" for ducks! We have ducks at home, mostly in the spring who visit our feeder in the yard. Oreo is always around staring at them inside and out.

She also stalks the seagulls up North. We put out old meat scraps, or chicken skins on a rock on the shore and motion the gulls in. Then we call the girls with this phrase~~ "Big Birdsssss"... and the cats come and crouch behind rocks and watch the antics of the gulls.

I think the pictures came out great! Thanks for posting them!

Here are Mr. and Mrs. Quack Quack sitting in our fountain in the spring--which is right next to the bird feeder (out of the picture to the right)

Oreo really watches them. I think they are the same ducks we get each year...Kevin named them long ago.
They leave when their nest hatches along the creek, in front of our home. We can hear the ducklings call to each other often then. It is down a ravine and hard for us to get close. But Oreo goes down there..we can hear the Quack Quack often!