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