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