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Say's Phoebe
digiscoped @ Bosque Del Apache NWR, NM 11/17/09
Leica APO Televid 65 mm scope, w/ D-Lux 4 camera and matched adapter (digital adapter 4)
After watching the geese fly out (and waiting endlessly for the cranes to do the same), we moved on to one of the other ponds. Lots of cranes hanging around there, too. They were leaving in small groups like this one, four or five at a time.
There's almost the full range of flight motion in these five birds - the sort of thing DaVinci might have sketched as a flight study of the crane.
Cooper's Hawk at Bosque del Apache NWR, Socorro Co., NM, 161113. Accipiter cooperii. Accipitriformes: Accipitridae.
Northern Harrier (NOHA) immature (first cycle), Bosque del Apache NWR, Socorro County, New Mexico, January 18, 2014, by Stephen Fettig
adult White-crowned Sparrow digiscoped @ Bosque Del Apache NWR, NM 11/17/09
Leica APO Televid 65 mm scope, w/ D-Lux 4 camera and matched adapter (digital adapter 4)
Curve-billed Thrasher
digiscoped @ Bosque Del Apache NWR, NM 11/17/09
Leica APO Televid 65 mm scope, w/ D-Lux 4 camera and matched adapter (digital adapter 4)
Least Bittern at Bosque del Apache NWR, Socorro Co., NM, 130710. Ixobrychus exilis. Pelecaniformes: Ardeidae.
Mexican Duck (MX -MALL) male, Farm Loop west side near Flight deck, Bosque del Apache NWR, Socorro County, New Mexico, January 18, 2014, by Stephen Fettig
adult White-crowned Sparrow digiscoped @ Bosque Del Apache NWR, NM 11/17/09
Leica APO Televid 65 mm scope, w/ D-Lux 4 camera and matched adapter (digital adapter 4)
I SAW TWO EAGLES! I was so excited, this made my whole day. I've never seen Eagles in the wild before. These are a symbol of our country that I've been defending for 24 years. Cool that I see them the week of my retirement.
They were so far away, and I was at the far end of my 400mm lens. I wish I could have been closer, or had one of those monster lenses that so many people had.
Red-tailed Hawk (RTHA) immature (first cycle), Farm Loop north end, Bosque del Apache NWR, Socorro County, New Mexico, January 18, 2014, by Stephen Fettig
American Pipit
digiscoped @ Bosque Del Apache NWR, NM 11/17/09
Leica APO Televid 65 mm scope, w/ D-Lux 4 camera and matched adapter (digital adapter 4)
Snow geese flying over the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. Image captured using a Canon 7D and 400mm lens; 1/1000 sec., f/8.0, ISO 200.
adult Wfite-crowned Sparrow
digiscoped through Leica APO Televid spoting scope with Leica C-Lux 2 camera Bosque Del Apache NWR, NM 11/16/07
Ferruginous Hawk (FEHA) immature (first cycle), Farm Loop north end, Bosque del Apache NWR, Socorro County, New Mexico, January 18, 2014, by Stephen Fettig
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A highlight of a winter visit to Socorro is the return of the Sandhill Cranes and Light Geese to the wildlife management areas on the Rio Grande, most notably the Bosque del Apache NWR.
Every evening the birds return from the feeding grounds and flock together in protective manmade ponds. Known as the "fly-in", it's truly a spectacle as the elegant birds drift in in groups of varying numbers.
We try to make it down there at least once a year if we can.
I'm taking a break from posting the summer photos. At the rate I'm going, it's gonna take the rest of the year to get 'em done anyway, so why not take a break and post something timely?
This is a series from a weekend getaway to Socorro.
The early birds: A few cranes hanging around waiting for the show to get started. It's still relatively quiet, everybody's getting along pretty well. That will change.
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A highlight of a winter visit to Socorro is the return of the Sandhill Cranes and Light Geese to the wildlife management areas on the Rio Grande, most notably the Bosque del Apache NWR.
Every evening the birds return from the feeding grounds and flock together in protective manmade ponds. Known as the "fly-in", it's truly a spectacle as the elegant birds drift in in groups of varying numbers.
We try to make it down there at least once a year if we can.
I'm taking a break from posting the summer photos. At the rate I'm going, it's gonna take the rest of the year to get 'em done anyway, so why not take a break and post something timely?
This is a series from a weekend getaway to Socorro.
A white-crowned sparrow sits nearby a mixed species flock near the visitor center of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. Image captured using a Canon 7D and 400 MM lens; 1/2000 sec., f/5.6, ISO 200.