Isenberg Crane Preserve
Posted by Karen on 11-Nov-2009
(28 photos)
Lori and I took a drive to the south wetlands and went pretend “snipe hunting“. The Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival was last weekend, so we figured that viewing spots wouldn’t be overcrowded today. We first drove to the Cosumnes River Preserve and decided to keep heading towards Lodi since it wasn’t near sunset yet. For sunset, we settled in at the Isenberg Crane Preserve (also known as the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve) to watch the Sandhill cranes arrive for their evening roost. This was the first time watching the cranes for both of us and we didn’t know what to expect really. It’s a very peaceful way to enjoy the sunset. Various types of birds fly into a wetlands field for the night; we saw the cranes, tundra swans, ducks and other birds that I didn’t hear the birdwatchers identify. We had a spectacular sunset and I learned that bird photography is really really hard and I’ll have to retry it again many more times in order to get some decent non-blurry photos. <grin>
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oh, wow…can’t wait til you retry these, cause the ones you got are absolutely gorgeous!!
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Karen Reply:
November 24th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
aww, thanks Carol! xoxo
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