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:
Sandhill Crane comes in for landing.
Yucca shoots abound at White Sands.
Entrance into the main Mission at Quarai.
Thousands of Snow Geese takeoff early morning in search of food.
115k and still running like a champ!
White Sands
Scenes of the morning flights at Bosque del Apache.
Very Large Array
Beautiful sunset views at the Bosque.
Native Petroglyphs at Three Rivers
Sandhill crane comes in for landing.
View from Gran Quivira.
A view of multiple dishes at the VLA.
Kim and Katie at Three Rivers with Sierra Blanca in the background.
Cranes taking flight at sunset.
Two cranes come in for sunset landing.
Sunset light illuminates cranes and geese at Bosque del Apache.
White Sands shadows…
The Milky Way spreads over a satellite dish at the Very Large Array.
Silhouettes of Sandhill Cranes at the Bosque.
Kim makes an impromptu selfie at the VLA sundial.
Night at the Very Large Array.
Ruins of the larger Gran Quivira pueblo sites.
More and more snow geese!
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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.