The 2nd annual Crane Count Campout on 4/15/16 offered excellent weather, a chorus of coyotes and a green meteorite after dusk along with a dozen sandhills and five nests the morning after.  A trail cam on one nest with two eggs provided over 2,300 spectacular pictures.   Every ~45 minutes, the eggs would be rotated and relief came with a second crane only once a day.  Unfortunately, six days in and with the water level having dropped materially, a raccoon raided this nest and destroyed both eggs...probably less than a week away from hatching.  Very sad.

The variety of waterfowl at the ABC is getting better.   A few shots are below...more have been posted to the Fauna page (link up on top)