Sandhill Cranes visit us

It's fairly quiet where we're staying and we have very few visitors. There is a hawk that stays around here and we see it hunting and one morning it caught a small snake. We did get this photo of the eagle sitting on one of the lamp posts here.

From January 2012

This morning we had a pair of sandhill cranes walking around looking for food and they eventually came close to the RV.

From January 2012

One of them actually walked across our patio mat.

From January 2012

Sandhill cranes are quite large, can live up to 20 years and stay with the same mate for years. I don't know which was the female and which was the male since their markings are identical.

Earlier this month Mike had taken a photo of the RV with his cell phone showing our solar panels tilted up. I thought I would include that photo today.

From January 2012