{"id":8864,"date":"2020-03-29T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8864"},"modified":"2020-03-29T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T20:42:04","slug":"after-the-crane-festival-monte-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/29\/after-the-crane-festival-monte-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"After The Crane Festival, Monte Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three weeks ago, the Annual Crane Festival took place at Monte Vista. I arrived after the crowds had left at the end of the weekend. I made this image soon after arriving at the National Wildlife Refuge. This was a group of Sandhill Cranes near the edge of the corn field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cranes, Standing Guard.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During the course of the late afternoon, the cranes were moving between their feed grounds. I was fortunate to capture this leader of the pack!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crane, Leading The Pack, Monte Vista.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The next morning, I stopped by a tree where owls and hawks nest. Here there was a pair of Red-Tailed Hawks building a nest. In this image, one bird was looking out over the corn fields<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red-Tailed Hawk, Monte Vista.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The other bird was breaking some branches on one tree to carry to the nest site on a second tree. I was able to capture this image of the hawk, in flight, with a branch in its bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red-Tailed Hawk, Carrying Branch.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy these images. Keep safe and healthy during this difficult times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago, the Annual Crane Festival took place at Monte Vista. I arrived after the crowds had left at the end of the weekend. I made this image soon after arriving at the National Wildlife Refuge. This was a group of Sandhill Cranes near the edge of the corn field. During the course of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1696,993,1362,1360,1695,1457,1694,425],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-branch","tag-corn-fields","tag-flight","tag-monte-vista","tag-nest-building","tag-nwr","tag-red-tail-hawk","tag-sandhill-cranes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t