Trip to Texas, Feb-Mar, 2010

Sandhill cranes and windmills, near Lubbock.

I wonder how many are killed by the windmills, not to mention the giant radio tower support wires.

Sandhill Crane mystery

When I was camped near the Gila River at Virden, NM, each morning hundreds of cranes flew up from further south, and in the evening they flew back south. I thought they were coming from the Lordsburg Playas, but when I went to investigate, I found no cranes there. So where were they coming from?