Knee-Brass-Kuh

I went to Nebraska over the week. It seems like a silly idea given all the stuff I have to accomplish within the next 5 weeks, but I went nonetheless. I went to witness the massive sandhill crane migration that takes place in the central Platte River. About 400,000 cranes pass through central Nebraska on their way north to Canada for the spring and summer. They roost at night in the river because it minimizes predation risk and it is quite a sight to see ~70,000 3.5 foot tall birds packing into the river bed. I took a few video clips of the event cause it was really hard to capture the grandeur with simple still photos (though the picture above does a pretty good job). The first three segments were taken in the morning as the sun rose, and the last one was in the evening as the flocks returned from a long day of foraging in the corn fields. I spent a lot more time watching in awe that evening and neglected to take many photos or videos.