Dry Camping Fun at Whitewater Draw AZ
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.พ. 2015
- Feb 2015 found us RVing through south eastern Arizona. My wife loves photography so while researching a place to camp I found out about Whitewater Draw Wildlife area, close to Tombstone.
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Every winter thousands of Sandhill Cranes hang out in the shallow waters here. The refuge allows free overnight parking for RVs in a small roundabout area. Perfect! Every morning just before sun rise the cranes take flight filling the air with thousands of birds. Quite the amazing sight but also amazing sound wise as they begin to cackle excitedly as the dawn breaks.
In this video I'll give you a look at the overnight camping area, the early morning flight of the birds and some other highlights from our short 3 night visit. Also at the end I have a collection of my still images I took during the visit.
We had a good time and met some other cool RVing folks while there. I highly recommend a stop over if you love bird watching and photography. ;)
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Thank you so much for getting out of bed early to share this for us.
Jerry Densmore You're welcome, it was well worth it. :)
I’m late to the party but Kearney, NE is another Sandhill Crane watching hot spot. 600,000 will refuel in the Platte River valley from late February to early April on their way north. Mid to late March is a great time to go.
That sound the birds make is so cool! Almost a purr. Nice capture of them taking flight.
Thanks for sharing....it's the only way I get to see these amazing places.
Very cool place, Ray! That duck is a Northern Shoveler.
The sandhills are also found nesting in Gray's Lake Idaho. You can hear them all of the time during the summer.
You find the most amazing places. I'll have to add that to my list. There's a Sandhill Crane Festival in Othello WA, so the population is expanding. They sure are interesting birds and make an odd noise. That was a spoonbill duck I believe at the end. Thanks for the awesome video.
Beautiful thanks for taking us along
Hi Ray,
Another great video. Always enjoy your videos, photography, and narration. Keep it up.
Take care,
Dean
Dean May Thanks, nice to hear. Cheers Ray
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
That was amazing, thanks for sharing.
love the birds...............
The duck you thought was a wood duck is a male Shoveler!
Yeah, someone else told me its a Northern Shoveler. What a bird brain to get that wrong. :)
WOW! Amazing! An air traffic controller's nightmare, and yet ... No collisions.
JC5001 Ya, really! haha
Thanks for the great video. Gonna have my DW watch it. She will probably whip out her bird book and attempt to identify everything there...if she doesn't already know.
RxMixer haha, my wife has one of those bird books too. One day they had some kind of birder meet up, never seen so may huge binoculars and spotting scopes in my life.
Great video! We have up to 4 at a time show up in our yard that I video. But wow! I have never seen that many at a time before. That's beautiful! Was that many taking of at once super loud? The ones in my yard get going & I start cracking up how loud they can get :)
kimmie koolbeans They would cackle up a storm haha, very load as they got very excited before take off and once air born.
We watch the sandhill cranes in Othello, Washington during their western migration route.
Suzan Allen They sure seem to get around. :)
I checked and these birds have a very large migratory route. Othello,Wa. is on the edge of a national wildlife refuge and a great place for all kinds of wildlife watching.
Added to the must see list. Thank you for this video. What is the best time of the year to visit in your opinion.
We were there in the middle of February and it was nice with lots of birds. Any earlier and it still could be cold, the elevation is up around 4000 feet.
COOL.........
You can just send me a map of everywhere you have been so I can get there one day lol