The cranes are very very loud, sometimes you can hear them and have trouble seeing them they fly so high, on that day they flew right over the house and were circling around and reforming, I was on the deck and I have a 35 mm lens on my camera, I was mad because I didn't get better photos, but I was facing SW at 5:07 PM and the light was blinding me.
JB, glad you saw a pretty cardinal yesterday.