Williams Lake resident Kyle Cotterell is used to seeing sandhill cranes near his Fox Mountain home where he and his family have lived for two years.
On Thursday evening, however, he witnessed something new.
One of the cranes was having an encounter with the neighbour's cow in a nearby field.
Cotterell captured the scene on video as the cow started creeping toward the sandhill crane, the crane got vocal and raised its wings advancing toward the cow.
The cow retreated, then tried one more time, but the same thing happened.
Once the cow backed off the crane turned around and strutted away continuing to make its loud call.
According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, sandhill cranes can be heard up to four kilometres away. The calls are given on the ground as well as in flight, when the flock may be very high and hard to see.
They also give moans, hisses, goose-like honks, and snoring sounds. Chicks give trills and purrs.
