Easter Saturday we spent with our friends. It was a sunny day with a brisk cold wind and we had decided to head out to a nature preserve. The preserve is known for the cranes that come there every spring and tourists from all over come to watch them.
None of us are bird watcher and really have little knowledge in the matter. After walking around and looking at the displays about the cranes we became a bit upset since we hadn´t seen one live crane. I tried to console the group saying that we probably won´t see any since they are shy or timid birds.
My friend finally approach one of the people working at the center and thought she would just in passing ask nicely if they had seen any cranes today. They started to laugh at us. “There are no cranes on this side of the lake… you have to follow the signs to see them”. We had of course seen the orange road signs directing us that way but ignored them.
After a fika that we brought with us we headed back into the car and backtracked to the orange road signs.
We found the cranes! 9 300 cranes were there that day and hundreds of tourists. Once again we were struck by the fact the we are not birdwatchers. Look at our friend´s camera and compare it to the german tourist!
Maxima said,
April 16, 2007 at 6:26 pm
That camera shot is really funny. That is what it is like going on vacation with Blips. Me with the little camera and him with all kinds of gadgets.
I am glad you found the cranes….nice story of the signs. Rebels….next time follow directions. naaaah, that never is as much fun!
Irish said,
April 16, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Those cameras are a bit of good humor! Glad you saw those cranes.
Em said,
April 17, 2007 at 10:51 am
maybe you could start a contest….naming the cranes! In the hunt of seeing new things….did you get anything out of watching some birds???? Did they behave different to let´s say… pigeons?
mir said,
April 17, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Em - yes they dance. They have long legs that look really funny when they land! And they come with a bunch of tourists and a gang of birdwatchers that are very fun to look at and analyze!
Jonas said,
April 17, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Where was Walter? I need to see pics!
Sam and Walter said,
April 18, 2007 at 12:44 am
HAHA! OK we will try to do some stunts and stuff…maybe a few action shots..We are going to need Mir to take the pics though so it might be a day or 2
Jason said,
April 18, 2007 at 7:19 am
It’s not about the size of the camera but how well it takes pictures.
Em said,
April 18, 2007 at 9:03 am
the size does matter….I have heard….at least if we talk about mega…pixels.
Shie said,
April 18, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Bigger is better, Em, or so the saying goes in America!
Cool pics, Mir. Do you happen to know what kind of cranes these were?
Shie said,
April 18, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Never mind…I found it. It is called the Red-Crowned crane. I went to savingcranes.org. Cool site, btw.