okay most of you know I live in Florida, well one thing this time of year we look forward to seeing is the little puff balls on stilts. This is in my backyard.
They are Sandhill Cranes
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Awww, so precious and Spring has Sprung 🥰
Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where 'dem birdies is? So neat that you get to visit with Sandhill cranes. We've been lucky this year to have our first ever bluebirds sampling our feeders.
I like the northern blue birds better than the ones down there… they are a brighter shade of blue.
Great photo and a great treat to have these awesome birds in your back yard. Still chilly here in Oregon, so not seeing any fuzzy little baby birds yet. Still waiting impatiently for baby critters to show, but at least the bulbs and blooming trees are putting on a show.
Enjoy! and thanks
oh my, thanks for sharing....wonderful photo....
....do you know if the little ones will migrate with the parents?
Hi, actually there are two types of Sandhill Cranes- those who migrate south in the winter and those who live here year round. These are the kind that live here year round. So later when the “kids” grow up they will be kicked out of the area but still stay here.
Thanks. I didn't know that.
That is soooo cool. Soon I'll be getting sweet little robins building nests along with nasty starlings.
My favorite bird is actually the blue jay, love the colors and I’m a bit noisy like them😜
Be careful with those starlings… scientists recently reported that they are learning to gang up on anyone or thing they consider an enemy and attack them repeatedly.
You are so right about the starlings. It's like living in a Alfred Hitchcock movie until they eventually leave, (I get Blue Jays and Cardinals come around as well).
We're also in Florida, and seeing the sandhill cranes always delights me! Thanks for the photo.
Yes these guys come through my yard quite often. Before I screened in the lanai they would lie down in the shaded area in the summer.
Cute! Greetings from Daytona!
Been there done that… one of hubby’s favorite things was NASCAR. We took the Daytona Race Track tour before he could no longer travel. Nice area😁
where abouts in Florida? Have you always loved there?
Central Florida. 10 years
Made me smile. 😁👍
In NYC the illegals have a name for them "Dinner".........
Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.
j-o-h-n
Taste just like chicken.
Just say’in
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The rangers will give you a ticket, here , for getting with-in a certain distance of them. ( or most wildlife in the protected wetland preserves ) I think it’s a few hundred feet, not sure. If you get caught feeding them out your car window ( the ones we have here are over 5’ tall ) you can get arrested.
Yep not supposed to feed the wildlife. These guys walk all throughout the neighborhood. I call them the Neighborhood Watch, they make such a racket if they’re disturbed or a dog is around. 😱
Brings back memories. I lived in Port Charlotte for a spell. Left there in 2006 to move back home in Upstate South Carolina. Really enjoyed seeing the Cranes each spring. Kinda makes me jealous.
back in the early 60s I lived in Melbourne, Ft Liquordale and Orlando . Got married first time in Orlando. I saw plenty of herons and flamingos in the south but I don’t remember if I saw cranes there for some reason. I hung out in the Everglades west of Plantation and Fla had an enormous bird life back then.
well that’s here in tree hugging California lol …. I was contrasting this place ( California ) against laid back Fla where the wildlife / birds are in your local lake or back yard. Nearly every house I lived in back there had something people fed and were like pets. Heck we’d stupidly feed those gators in our neighborhood pond ( lake lol ) pieces of raw chicken or loaves of bread. The gators back then were kinda small and not too many except out in the glades. So many kinds of birds it was impressive. I still fondly remember the hissing of evening ( sulphur smelling ) lawns and exotic night blooming jasmine so powerful it burned your nose hairs. Plenty of people feed migrating geese or ducks in local parks and the “ huggers “ have to let them go. We have HUGE flocks of migration geese ( several kinds ) and they have learned to hang out in the few city park lakes for freebies. lol
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Our nighttime creatures are called muggers........Daytime ones are called politicians.....
Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.
j-o-h-n
hu uh .hu uh …. Your nighttime creatures are the “ now “ famous rats.
Just say’in lol
Nope. They're the daytime ones.......
Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.
j-o-h-n
Any iguanas in your yard?
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I guess it was the iguanas NIGHT..........
Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.
j-o-h-n
No iguanas too far north. It’s too cold for them in the winter… yeah occasionally we get frost and hard freeze. I have a different reptile to keep an eye on. I’ve watched these two grow from 1 foot long to about 6 feet now. There are actually three of them in the pond
Alligators
Yikes, I prefer the lizard
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