Finally. After years of talking about it, Kim’s sister made her way to New Mexico in season for a chance at seeing the Sandhill Cranes at the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge. While there, might as well visit the Very Large Array and other iconic New Mexico attractions including the Three Rivers Petroglyph site and White Sands. Take a look:
Two cranes come in for sunset landing.
Native Petroglyphs at Three Rivers
Beautiful sunset views at the Bosque.
Cranes taking flight at sunset.
Thousands of Snow Geese takeoff early morning in search of food.
More and more snow geese!
White Sands
View from Gran Quivira.
Kim makes an impromptu selfie at the VLA sundial.
Entrance into the main Mission at Quarai.
Silhouettes of Sandhill Cranes at the Bosque.
Ruins of the larger Gran Quivira pueblo sites.
115k and still running like a champ!
A view of multiple dishes at the VLA.
Kim and Katie at Three Rivers with Sierra Blanca in the background.
Sunset light illuminates cranes and geese at Bosque del Apache.
White Sands shadows…
Yucca shoots abound at White Sands.
Sandhill Crane comes in for landing.
Night at the Very Large Array.
Scenes of the morning flights at Bosque del Apache.
Sandhill crane comes in for landing.
The Milky Way spreads over a satellite dish at the Very Large Array.
Very Large Array
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2 Replies to “Southern New Mexico Thanksgiving”
You know they call the Sandhill the ‘ribeye of the sky’ — their breast meat being the most tasty of all migratory birds.
We wouldn’t be shooting film to test that claim though…
Bucket list hunt for me, have to come down and visit you during season, yea?
Ha! I had no idea you could hunt them. They’re definitely a lot of them along the Rio Grande.
I still think a Klain family Elk hunt in NM would be insanely good.