It's Cranemania around here!

[Wild Skies]

CODE RED! UPDATE:

For those that have been following along I have some good news! . . . it appears the leg injury the young sandhill crane sustained three weeks ago has mostly healed and is now likely to make it. After a week or so of having to hop on one leg in order to move, fear for its survival -- predators and starvation were real possibilities. But, its parents, the adult birds, saw to it that their little one would survive. Several times we witnessed the adult birds bringing food to their baby -- grubs, nightcrawlers, mice, etc. After that first week of hopping on one leg the juvenile crane was able to put a little weight on the leg and limp along. It has been getting incrementally better each day with the limp almost undetectable today. In the photo below one of the adults caught and killed a field mouse under the fence and has brought it over for its young to feast on.