bgeiger: Sorry the cranes aren't as pleasant where you are as they are here. (They are the same species there as here in New Mexico.) Sandhill cranes are not an "endangered species", a designation under federal law: (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). They do seem to be listed under your Florida state law as "threatened". This is more than an idle quibble - much societal ill is unfairly blamed on the Endangered Species Act. In fact, Sandhill populations are thriving now across much of North America after the big birds nearly went extinct in the 1930s, in large part because of efforts to conserve important wetland habitat. (No doubt the reason they're in the middle of the street there is because y'all have paved over the wetlands where they would prefer to be living.) We should view the cranes' return as a success, rather than an inconvenience.