Brown spent about 15 hours in a blind watching the cranes on the banks of the Platte River. The Audubon Center said about 700,000 cranes were in the area last weekend and about 300,000 will be in ...

Then cranes began landing on a sandbar around 300 feet in front of the blind, shadowy, long-legged figures poking around in the sand and ... around the Platte River Valley, stopping periodically to ...