Sandhill Crane Pair Visiting/ Our Happiness Depends On Wisdom All The Way
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Pet of 6/4/2022, Sandhill Crane pair (Attribution: Susan Sun Nunamaker, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
Quote of 6/4/2022, “Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” (Quote of: Sophocles, Photo of: Susan Sun Nunamaker, Presented at: WinderemreSun.com)
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Pet of the Week, 6/4/2022, below:
Pet of 6/4/2022, Sandhill Crane pair (Attribution: Susan Sun Nunamaker, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
This sandhill crane pair visits our neighborhood from time to time. Central Floridians are kind and patient enough to slow down our vehicles for these cranes to cross various streets. May we always be able to do so.
Did you know that Crane’s symbolism and meanings include grace, devotion, faithfulness, travel, open-mindedness, aspiration, longevity, immortality, and transformation. There are 15 species of cranes and they live on every continent except South America and Antarctica.(excerpt in italics, below):
Sandhill cranes are fairly social birds that usually live in pairs or family groups through the year. During migration and winter, unrelated cranes come together to form “survival groups” that forage and roost together. Such groups often congregate at migration and winter sites, sometimes in the thousands.
Sandhill cranes are mainly herbivorous, but eat various types of food, depending on availability. They often feed with their bills down to the ground as they root around for seeds and other foods, in shallow wetlands with vegetation or various upland habitats. Cranes readily eat cultivated foods such as corn, wheat, cottonseed, and sorghum. Waste corn is useful to cranes preparing for migration, providing them with nutrients for the long journey.[27] Among northern races of sandhill cranes, their diet is most varied, especially among breeding birds. They variously feed on berries, small mammals, insects, snails, reptiles, and amphibians.
Sandhill cranes raise one brood per year. In nonmigratory populations, laying begins between December and August. In migratory populations, laying usually begins in April or May. Both members of a breeding pair build the nest using plant material from the surrounding area. Nest sites are usually marshes, bogs, or swales, though occasionally on dry land. Females lay one to three (usually two) oval, dull brown eggs with reddish markings. Both parents incubate the eggs for about 30 days. The chicks are precocial; they hatch covered in down, with their eyes open, and able to leave the nest within a day. The parents brood the chicks for up to three weeks after hatching, feeding them intensively for the first few weeks, then gradually less frequently until they reach independence at 9 to 10 months old.
The chicks remain with their parents until one to two months before the parents lay the next clutch of eggs the following year, remaining with them 10–12 months. After leaving their parents, the chicks form nomadic flocks with other juveniles and nonbreeders. They remain in these flocks until they form breeding pairs between two and seven years old.
Quote of the Week, 6/4/2022, below:
Quote of 6/4/2022, “Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” (Quote of: Sophocles, Photo of: Susan Sun Nunamaker, Presented at: WinderemreSun.com)
The celebrated ancient Greek playwright Sophocles once stated, “Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
To better understand who Sophocles was, please refer to the excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
Sophocles (/ˈsɒfəkliːz/;[1] Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, pronounced [so.pʰo.klɛ̂ːs]; c. 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)[2] is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays,[3] but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.[4] For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won thirteen competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles; Euripides won four.[5]
The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, though each was part of a different tetralogy (the other members of which are now lost). Sophocles influenced the development of drama, most importantly by adding a third actor (attributed to Sophocles by Aristotle; to Aeschylus by Themistius),[6] thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot.[citation needed] He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights.[7]
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