A Visit with Sandhill Cranes in Alabama

A Visit with Sandhill Cranes in Alabama

I just visited the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur, Alabama where thousands of Sandhill Cranes spend the winter, arriving late in November and staying into February. I learned about this place years ago during a workshop with Tillman Crane while I was working on “A Southern Diary”. I didn’t have much time then, or an appropriate lens, and I have been wanting to get back there since. The birds have about 35,000 acres to themselves, but fortunately, several thousand were close to visitor viewing areas.