Verona, Wisconsin, March 2015. Last year, the crane pair started nesting in our backyard on March 19. We're waiting to see if they return. I still wonder if something bad didn't happen to the family last year.
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March 10, 2016
Waiting
Verona, Wisconsin, March 2015. Last year, the crane pair started nesting in our backyard on March 19. We're waiting to see if they return. I still wonder if something bad didn't happen to the family last year.
March 1, 2016
May 10, 2015
Returning
The crane family stays close to the pond where the Crane Chicks hatched. Usually the cranes walk in the grassy area adjacent to the water. Yesterday Mama Crane and Papa Crane escorted the Crane Chicks to a knoll at the edge of their territory:
The Crane Chicks get exposed to threats when they wander farther from the nesting area. Some of the threats are old. Last evening, for example, Papa Crane tussled again with one of the geese; Mama Crane and the Crane Chicks watched from the shore:
After nightfall, we heard a screeching dispute in the pond. We worried that perhaps coyotes had reached the nest. The fox and the turkey vultures also came to mind.
When I got up this morning, I looked out to check on the cranes. I didn't see them in the yard. I worried at first, but then I saw they'd walked even farther than they had gone yesterday. The family was digging around for nibbles in an adjacent cornfield:
Mama Crane and Papa Crane later led the chicks back to the grass:
Soon, they settled in their familiar spot:
Sunday: the day for strolling.
The Crane Chicks get exposed to threats when they wander farther from the nesting area. Some of the threats are old. Last evening, for example, Papa Crane tussled again with one of the geese; Mama Crane and the Crane Chicks watched from the shore:
After nightfall, we heard a screeching dispute in the pond. We worried that perhaps coyotes had reached the nest. The fox and the turkey vultures also came to mind.
When I got up this morning, I looked out to check on the cranes. I didn't see them in the yard. I worried at first, but then I saw they'd walked even farther than they had gone yesterday. The family was digging around for nibbles in an adjacent cornfield:
Mama Crane and Papa Crane later led the chicks back to the grass:
Soon, they settled in their familiar spot:
Sunday: the day for strolling.
January 24, 2015
She came back.
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Verona, Wisconsin, January 22, 2015. Our visitor again scampers through the backyard.
Don't get all soft about foxes; they're predators, just like coyotes.
October 9, 2013
Early-Evening Snack
Madison, Wisconsin, October 2005. We have few rabbits in our Verona backyard. That's because we have coyotes.
February 2, 2012
Coyotes ...
... howling in our backyard, tonight. (Turn up the volume.)
Verona, Wisconsin, February 2, 2012. The "sneezing" sound you hear in the background is one of our dogs, Rex, "pfftting" with excitement. We are happy that he's in the house.
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