French cranes, finches, farewell, photos

After yesterday, today, Sunday 3 March 2013, was our last morning with the cranes of Lac du Der, France.

This French video is the first one of a series about crane migration at the lake “Lac du Der” in autumn 2010.

And this French video is the second one of that series about crane migration at Lac du Der in autumn 2010.

We rose very early today, to see and hear the cranes around sunrise.

It is much sunnier this morning than on earlier cloudy days here; though a bit misty.

It is freezing; minus two degrees centigrade.

Slowly, the beautiful sound of the cranes around the lake gets stronger, as they wake up and start flying away.

Also: mallards, coots and grey lag geese.

A blackbird sings in the village.

Our bus departs. First, to the Ferme aux grues again.

Many cranes.

In the trees, near the hide: house sparrows.

Male and female bullfinch.

A goldfinch.

Greenfinches.

Great tits and blue tits.

Chaffinches.

And a beautiful male great spotted woodpecker.

The bus continues to the north. Near Vitry-le-François, a female hen harrier flies. Fieldfares on a field.

11:15. Still 70 kilometer till Reims. A red kite flying.

Five minutes later. A flock of rooks on a fence.

Later, another red kite flying. A buzzard on a fence.

When the bus stops: long-tailed tits in a tree.

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