SANDHILL CRANE FLY-IN

 I got an Audubon alert that a large number of migrating Sandhill Cranes had landed on the mudflats at Logan’s Landing Saturday morning.  I stopped counting at 50 birds and focused on taking pictures.  Even though I had a wide-angle lens in addition to my long wildlife lens, I couldn’t capture the scope of the scene.  Cranes were everywhere:  fishing, preening, sleeping, and squawking at each other.  They left footprints in the sand…and on my heart.