Well these aren't exactly chickens.
An open prairie path gave us the opportunity to see some giant dinosaurs crossing the road.
The sandhill cranes had a baby and were being extra protective of it.
They wanted to cross the path to get to these other cranes deep in the prairies.
The father was quite defensive and kind of approached us with a low croaking noise.
Quite an intimidating looking figure. I'll peck your eyes out human if you get too close!
Eventually the mom rounded up the baby who was making a strange clucking noise and they crossed safely.
Now it is off to look for frogs, rodents and red wing blackbird chicks to eat in the prairie grass.
The baby was quite close to us and didn't seem to care that we were there.
Later on we scared a couple of other cranes in a side path. They croaked loudly to warn any other cranes in the area that there were humans pushing a baby stroller.
Poor thing had a fly stuck to his head the whole time and no way to get rid of it.
These are probably the things these cranes are eating the most, tiny little wood frogs.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)
