7’ X 9”4”

watercolor, pastels, and ink on collaged Stonehenge paper.

Image by R. Wells.

I became interested in the Sandhill Cranes’ story after reading Aldo Leopold’s On the Call of the Sandhill Crane.

“When we hear his call, we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.”