Looks like we have a beautiful week ahead!
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Albatrossity
Last weekend Elizabeth and I, as well as three of the students in her Wild Literature class, traveled to Nebraska to view the greatest wildlife migration spectacle in North America, one million Sandhill Cranes massing along the Platte River and bulking up before they continue their journey to Alaska, Canada, and Siberia. I have made this journey many times in the past, but, like the cranes, somehow I have an urge to return year after year after year. It was a good trip, so Iâll take a brief hiatus from chronicling our westward trip in 2015, and pick that up again next week.
On The Road – Albatrossity – Cranes along the Platte River, 2024Post + Comments (18)
It’s nearly spring, even in Flyover Country, but it snowed in central Nebraska the day before our scheduled trip to view cranes from a blind on the north side of the Platte River. This was a bit alarming because we were planning to camp near Grand Island. Elizabeth and I had the teardrop trailer to keep us off the cold ground, but the students only had tents and ThermaRest pads and sleeping bags. Fortunately, we found some snow-free campsites, and the students were still game for the camping adventure (it would definitely give them something to write about in their journals!), so we set up camp and headed to the Crane Trust facility for our next adventure. Click here for larger image.