Sandhill Cranes Raising Canada Goose: Part 2

[@drakea.5816]

You deserve some kind of an award for this footage. It's absolutely amazing.

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Thank you!

[@drakea.5816]

Those cranes can really dig with those sharp beaks and pull up some fat worms. No wonder junior is putting on more weight than the average gosling. He looks like a prize fighter! 😂😂

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

I wondered if a diet with more protein/fat than just grass would make him grow faster.

[@bryan3dguitar]

One of the best 'straight up' nature videos I've ever seen. Outdone only by Part 1. Here we have 'just' high quality, well-focused video and natural sounds - only. That's it! That's all it takes! No boring music loops. No AI narrator who ends each sentence the same way. No pleading for subscriptions so the content creator won't have to work a 9-to-5 anymore.

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Thank you so much! Yeah, I don't want to beg for subscribers. I really just want to show nature and hope people will enjoy.

[@dorothyscheffelman9419]

Iin my long life of loving Sandhill Cranes I have never seen such a beautiful nature video. Thank you, Cinthia Carlson.

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Thank you so much! It was so unusual and special!

[@907Prism]

The goose is growing throughout these videos ❤ such an amazing experience that must've been to catch this in person

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

It has definitely been interesting to watch!

[@Fortheloveofbirds2020]

Absolutely adorable video ❤

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Thank you.

[@sachinlavate8145]

Cynthia, you are doing a great job, really. So clear shooting and so natural! A lot of love from India! Awaiting 3rd part. Anyway, that duckling thinking of itself as a crane, may be due to 'filial imprinting' i.e., a newly hatched baby assumes the immediately seen species as its mother. A nice article published by The scientific american- 'newborns can bond to mother from different species' written by Ms. Rachel Dvoskin may be referred.

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Thank you so much for that article--I will pull it up right now! That is our theory, that somehow the cranes incubated that egg. someday I will get to India to see the birds there! Best--Cynthia.

[@richardpontius8210]

Great behaviors.

[@pattimiller9157]

❤ I love this

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Thank you!

[@SaltyGoose1]

This is just incredible footage 🙂

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

thank you so much!

[@panibabcia7732]

This movie ist great... thank you very much! 💝

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Thank you so much!

[@annabelle1471]

this might become one of the strongest geese we’ve heard of.... :)

[@Snowkitty1424]

Thank you so much for another video! Can't wait for the next one 😍🥰

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Soon . . .

[@mollyperlmutter]

Wow! Great footage! What camera do you use?

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

I use a Nikon Z9 with the 180-600. Thank you!

[@nationalparksprincess3216]

This is so fun to watch!

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

They are so cute together!

[@johnskyleir]

This is a great video that you made with your patient

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

Thank you so much!

[@marshabrightly1307]

Good job, Mama & Dada 🥰🥰🥰

[@trailcamerasinnewengland0112]

❤❤❤❤

[@bryan3dguitar]

I thought it was interesting that the cranes seemed 'only' inconvenienced by the 'territory defending' blackbird and not more concerned for their baby goose. After all, that one blackbird attacked that one crane with many vicious pecks to the back! Any of which could have proved fatal to the baby. Maybe they knew somehow that this was not a predatory action from the bird.

[@madamParmesan43]

Это не было атакой - дрозд просто съел жука со спины журавля)

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

I've never see blackbirds go after baby cranes either. I figure they are not threatened by the small ones. Only a guess.

[@mirek5242]

piękne ujęcia,,

[@macphotonatura2274]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👍🎞️🎥🙋

[@victoriagay3735]

Is this really good for the goose? Cranes have very different lives than geese?

[@shiva72945]

True. But the baby seems healty and content. Sure, geese do a lot of grazing and are more relaxed than cranes, who walk all day. But I think the little one will make it. He seems about 10-14 days old. There is a video on youtube about a pair of loons raining a duck. A little mallard. The duckling rests on the back of the parents, like little loons do. It dives and eats fish what mallards do not. But it grew up without a problem. I hope this gooseling also will. It is adorable. It takes food from the beak of the cranes. It is wunderful.

[@CynthiaCarlsonPhotography]

It's interesting anyway. Cranes and geese frequent similar habitats so it'll be interesting to see if it continues to think it's a crane. Nature is a mad scientist!