Huge flocks of Sandhill Cranes migrate to Eagleville Tennesse each winter. The area is mostly flat farmland with corn and soybean fields that provide lots of food, along with many ponds and small steams providing them lots of feeding opportunities.

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These falcons are so skittish it is difficult to get a decent shot of them. They were following a huge flick of Starlings that were moving through the area of open farm lands.

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The Sandhill Crane is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to habit like that at the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill Cranes are known to hang out at the edges of bodies of water, especially in the Central Florida region. The central Platte River Vally in Nebraska is the most important stopover area for the nominotypica subspecies, the lesser sandhill crane, with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually.

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I was having my morning coffee when I saw this guy fly in. Waited over 30 minutes until he took off and then did not get any decent clicks of his short flight down into the creek behind the bushes.
Maybe next time.

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