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