Visiting the Whoopers

Ned and I went to Rockport, Texas this past weekend to see the Whooping Cranes. Captain Tommy Moore's boat, the Skimmer, sails out of Rockport to the islands and bays off Aransas National Wildlife Refuge just north of there. The Whooping Cranes generally hang out in these marshes looking for their favorite dish -- the blue crab. Unfortunately crab are scarce this year, so the cranes are having to work harder to find food. The census taken of the cranes this year numbered them at 264. We saw 14 of them on our trip...






Distance made me wish for the mega-lenses that other folks use to photograph these great birds.

More photos from the trip forthcoming...