animals Sandhill Cranes migrating through Nebraska

Each spring, half a million Sandhill Cranes stop along an 80-mile

stretch of the Platte River in central Nebraska, USA, en route from

the Gulf Coast to their summer homes in Canada and Siberia. Watching

them return by the thousands to roost on the river each night is an

impressive sight. Although I did shoot this into a hazy, orange

sunset, I had to punch up the saturation a bit. Should I have gone

farther? Would it have been better if the ground was a perfectly

black silhouete? This was taken with my older telephoto lens, so I

had to sharpen it in post to get some good lines on the birds.