These are some images of whooping cranes photographed on the Intracoastal Highway on the outer banks of the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. The whooping cranes' images were captured from the deck of the "Jack Flash," a boat I chartered through Aransas Bay Birding Charters. It was a great experience as Kevin Sims, the owner/operator, was able to get me very close, relatively speaking, to the whooping cranes. The handsome whooping cranes spend their winters at Aransas NWR after flying some 2,500 miles from northern Canada. You will also find the close cousin of the whooping crane, the much more numerous Sandhill Cranes that also spend their winters throughout south Texas. Other birds in this family are the rails, grebes and coots.
This adult female whooping crane seemed to be posing for the two boats of birders and photographers that had stopped in the Texas Intracoastal Highway looking into the Aransas National Wildlife to view this noble crane. She was standing in what would have been a small grassy clump of wetland soil acting as an island if more water had been present. Near Rockport, Texas, Texas Intracoastal Highway looking into the Aransas National Wildllife Refuge, January 2009
This adult female whooping crane seemed to be posing for the two boats of birders and photographers that had stopped in the Texas Intracoastal Highway looking into the Aransas National Wildlife to view this noble crane. She was standing in what would have been a small grassy clump of wetland soil acting as an island if more water had been present. Near Rockport, Texas, Texas Intracoastal Highway looking into the Aransas National Wildllife Refuge, January 2009
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