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Jane Peterson (American, 1876–1965)
Grey Crowned
Watercolor, gouache, & pencil on paper
19.5 × 25.75 in (49.5 × 65.4 cm)
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jane-peterson-grey-crowned-cranes

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Bird of the Day — Whooping Crane, Nebraska 2024
Lousy light, lousy picture, but a great bird!

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Sandhill Cranes return to the North Platte River Valley in

Starting now and running through mid-April, approximately one million will spend about six weeks in the Platte River Valley on their way north to Canada and Siberia. 400,000 of these Sandhill will spend that time in the North Platte and Lincoln County area in western Nebraska.

https://northplattepost.com/posts/04dfbb17-662d-46a7-8937-18561c119eba

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The director of the Akan International Crane Center in Hokkaido tells us how she found herself in a career centered around saving the symbolic white birds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2024/02/24/our-lives/akan-red-crowned-crane-hokkaido/

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You hear them well before you see them. There were dozens of squads flying today; I saw hundreds of individuals, but who knows how many were in the air. They were headed north. The sandhill cranes flew over my house today.

There were many sandhill cranes flying today. This picture shows 2 dozen or so individual, flying in a V formation.

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I've only been here a few months but I've noticed that even non-birders get very excited about the migrating though every year. Yesterday was my first time seeing them and... I knew I'd be delighted by them but they were even better than I expected. They're so big! There were so many of them!

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Ketzeleh is so used to cranes she barely notices them. These photos are from a while ago, maybe now with my better camera I can do better!

The kitty is looking up, her face out of focus, and there is a row of little cranes going down her back. Kind of like the spikes on a stegosaurus.

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Two birds talking at Cologne Zoo: "What do you think of the weather? - Well, what can you say; after all, we are snow cranes." (Grus leucogeranus)
(December 2010)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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Amazing evening spectacle at the nearby rice fields with over 1,000 Glossy flying at us as the sun set!

Mixed in with White , Great White and Common as Black-winged drifted by and Bluethroats scuttled by!

Sifting through the we found Spotted Redshanks, Wood with Green Sandpipers, Ruff and sooooooo much more !

White Stork ©️ Inglorious Bustards
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Common Cranes ©️ Inglorious Bustards

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Found some Studio Ghibli-looking clouds during sunset last weekend.

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Blick aus dem Schlafzimmerfenster (beinahe)

LukaszHorodecki, to Birds Polish
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Jestem nienajmłodszym już chłopem ze wsi i wielokrotnie widziałem stada żurawi zbierające się na gdzieś łące. Zdarzało się w czasie rowerowania po po polnych drogach trafić na miejsca, gdzie spotkało się sporo kluczy i w jednym miejscu odpoczywało kilka setek tych fantastycznych ptaków. Ale dzisiejsze spotkanie spokojnie pobiło dotychczasowe rekordy o rząd wielkości.

Jak zawsze na trasie do Białośliwia odwiedziłem górkę w Krostkowie, gdzie jest mój ulubiony punkt widokowy na dolinę Noteci. Dojeżdżając słyszałem co chwile nad głową kolejne klucze żurawi, a im bliżej, tym było ich więcej i coraz głośniejsze. Łączyły się ze sobą, krążyły i opadały na łąki za drzewami.

Po wjechaniu na górkę zrozumiałem co się dzieje: spory fragment nadnoteckich łąk na wysokości Krostkowa został zalany po ostatnich deszczach i migrujące żurawie masowo lądowały tam na postój i popas. Była ich po prostu masa, a cały czas nadlatywały kolejne klucze. Niesamowita sprawa.

Niestety nie było jak do nich podejść chociaż trochę bliżej i pewnie nie zobaczyłbym za dużo, ale traf chciał, że akurat dzisiaj zabrałem ze sobą nowy aparat do przetestowania. Były trochę za daleko, żeby złapać jakieś sensowne zbliżenie, a bez statywu jakość fotek robionych z optycznym zoomem 65x nie urywa, ale przynajmniej oddają chociaż częściowo to, jak wielkie było to zgromadzenie.

Na zalanej częściowo łące brodzi w wodzie stado żurawi. W tyle zdjęcia część ptaków stoi na trawie poza wodą.
Kolejne zdjęcie wielkiego stada żurawi.
Nieduża grupa żurawi stojąca trochę bliżej, więc lepiej widoczna. Za nimi pas trawy i fragment dużego stada.

EugeniaLoli, to illustration

A drawing made mostly with artist grade crayons by Caran D'Ache, rather than my usual painting supplies.

I'd say that along watercolors, crayons is the most difficult medium to master, because in order to get good coverage and rich, deep colors requires lots of skill. Watercolors are very difficult compared to other, opaque paints because it requires you to think in negative space due to its transparency.

And yet, these are the two art supply mediums we give to kids in pre-school and school. I'd posit that they need to start with colored pencils for drawing, and gouache for painting, not crayons and watercolors.

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The Finnieston Crane in Glasgow. Completed in 1931, its main purpise was to lift steam locomotives constructed by local manufacturers, such as the North British Locomotive Company in Springburn, on to ships for export all over the world.

#glasgow #glasgowatnight #nightphotography #finniestoncrane
#glasgowgistory #crane #cranes #springburn #train #steamtrain

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