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This encounter occurred as we were driving towards the entry/exit point on our last morning at the Bosque del Apache NWR
The Coyotes in the middle of the picture, near the canal, were the reason for the uproar. They were hoping for lunch but came up empty mouthed.
The Bald Eagle was still in the grass watching the geese. Makes me wonder if it was on an earlier kill.
This group includes Blue Morph Adults. Snow Goose fly-in at the Flight Deck at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
Extremely difficult to photograph in flight. These birds are swift and agile. They can change direction in the fraction of a second.
Sandhill Cranes mate for life; this couple is seen taking an evening stroll before bedtime at the Bosque del Apache NWR, New Mexico.
There were 2 of these little bats (a Myotis species of some sort) hanging onto the side of the visitor center entrance when we got there Sunday morning. They were quite cold and sluggish still around 10AM.
It's like 9 degrees outside here in Dallas and there's an inch or two of ice on the roads... Pretty nasty stuff (for Dallas anyway). Just going back through some images, wishing I were some place else.
It's been a while since I've been to Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico. If you've never been and enjoy "Shooting" birds it's a magical place. 40,000 Sandhills and 60,000 Snow Geese will open your eyes and make the hair on the back of your neck stand straight up!
What you don't see in this image is there are a couple thousand Sandhills already on the ground where this guy is landing. Munching away on the corn that has recently been knocked over for them to feed on.
8476 is the current count of cranes at Bosque del Apache. And that's not counting the birds at the other refuges up and down the Rio Grande... or the snow geese or the Canada Geese or the coots or the eagles or...
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I said to myself on the way into Bosque del Apache that this time I would LOOK at the birds and NOT take pictures.
Yeah, right.
Once the fly-in gets underway the camera comes out and doesn't get put away again until dark.
So once again, there are lots of photos to wade through. But modern technology can be useful and in this case looking at pictures on flickr is better than sitting through one of your uncle's endless slide shows, you can just skip over the uninteresting bits. Skip away :^)
December 26, 2012 - Getting away for the holidays, and interrupting the posting of the Thanksgiving photos, which interrupted the posting of the summer photos. It's going to be a long Winter, maybe I'll catch up...
Brewer's Sparrow (BRSP), visitor center, Bosque del Apache NWR, Socorro County, New Mexico, January 19, 2014, by Stephen Fettig
A rare bird indeed. Mistaken by many for a Whooping Crane. This bird is a genetic variant, partial albino. It does not get the characterisitc pigmentation in its feathers. Any brownish pigment is picked up from the soil as with all Sandhills. I was lucky enough to see and photograph this bird over several days.
Sedge Wren at Bosque del Apache NWR, Socorro Co., NM, 160424. Cistothorus platensis, Passeriformes: Troglodytidae. AKA short-billed marsh wren
Within minutes of arriving at Bosque Del Apache NWR, we made a stop at the gift shop. AFTER that, we were quickly surrounded by some three thousand snow geese, and a whole lot of 500mm or 600mm lenses - a lot of them handheld. Thankfully I had the Stacy 70-200 with me to pretend I could keep up with the Jones and their big lenses.
A rare bird indeed. Mistaken by many for a Whooping Crane. This bird is a genetic variant, partial albino. It does not get the characterisitc pigmentation in its feathers. Any brownish pigment is picked up from the soil as with all Sandhills. I was lucky enough to see and photograph this bird over several days.
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. Socorro County, New Mexico, USA.
Found in this vicinity: 33.76876N 106.90369W.