Friends flock together during crane migration

Duo from Kansas City, Kan., achieve bucket list goal

Sandhill cranes gather on the banks of the Platte River. Due to clouds and incoming the rain, the cranes were fewer in number at the landing site according to volunteers.
Sandhill cranes gather on the banks of the Platte River. Due to clouds and incoming the rain, the cranes were fewer in number at the landing site according to volunteers.

The annual sandhill crane spring migration is setting to wrap up in the coming days and with the birds flocking over the shallow Platte River comes a migration of people just as numerous. Two of those who came up from Kansas City, Kan., were friends Chris Buck and Brooke Morrison, who were there to fulfill Buck’s goal of capturing the birds in photography. Buck, who has life-long muscular dystroph…