Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) are quite common on the Lower Wisconsin Riverway. They are big birds, with six to seven foot wingspans, and they are quite a racket in the morning. You can see they have big feet…or maybe you can’t…
Here’s a quarter for some sense of scale.
Like I said…big.
They left more than tracks…they dropped feathers all over the place. The ground fog made the feathers little works of art.
I chose not to photograph the guano splatterings, though a few of them bore striking resemblances a miniature Jackson Pollack.
Respectfully submitted,
Canoelover
I often attend a sweat lodge near East Troy, and we frequentl hear these guys doing their mating stuff in a field a half mile away.