Sandhill Cranes

 About a 2 hour drive southeast from our house is a wildlife area, Whitewater Draw.  Each winter a large number of Sandhill Cranes come there to speed the winter.  True snowbirds.  As are the snow geese that join them.  The estimates for the crane population this winter is 22,000.  I never heard about the snow geese estimates, but based on my observation of a 2 hour period. I would say they number in the hundreds.  

Here is one of the 1800 images I captured in a recent visit. Best viewed larger.