Sandhill Crane, Afternoon Landing into a Cut Corn Field, (Antigone canadensis), Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex: Bernardo Waterfowl Management Area, Socorro County, New Mexico USA
Last trip to Bernardo this season… went with 24 Enchanted Lens Camera Club (ELCC) fellow Marauders… Warm afternoon, great weather and the cranes and geese were in fine fettle. Cars driving around the Preserve from all over the United States. We are lucky to have this facility here in the Middle Rio Grande only 50 minutes south of Albuquerque. NM Game and Fish do a great job operating and maintaining this place. I met Mike Chavez there, the G&F Bernardo Manager, in the late afternoon and he told me there was enough food there for the cranes until early mid-February. He said he was also planting radishes this year and the cranes and geese loved them. After birding and photographing, 14 hungry pirates met for good New Mexican fare at Las Dos Gringas in Belen about 20 minutes north of Bernardo… alas they don’t serve alcohol… how can you eat enchiladas without a Margarita!
Sandhill Crane, Afternoon Landing into a Cut Corn Field, (Antigone canadensis), Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex: Bernardo Waterfowl Management Area, Socorro County, New Mexico USA
Last trip to Bernardo this season… went with 24 Enchanted Lens Camera Club (ELCC) fellow Marauders… Warm afternoon, great weather and the cranes and geese were in fine fettle. Cars driving around the Preserve from all over the United States. We are lucky to have this facility here in the Middle Rio Grande only 50 minutes south of Albuquerque. NM Game and Fish do a great job operating and maintaining this place. I met Mike Chavez there, the G&F Bernardo Manager, in the late afternoon and he told me there was enough food there for the cranes until early mid-February. He said he was also planting radishes this year and the cranes and geese loved them. After birding and photographing, 14 hungry pirates met for good New Mexican fare at Las Dos Gringas in Belen about 20 minutes north of Bernardo… alas they don’t serve alcohol… how can you eat enchiladas without a Margarita!