My wife and I visited New Mexico over the Christmas holidays as we have in several past years. One of our favorite activities there is to visit the Bosque del Apache NWR located a few miles south of Socorro. This, in my opinion, is one of the premier birding locations in the American west. The preserve is managed for wildlife, and in the winter thousands of Snow geese and Sandhill cranes stay at the preserve. During the night the birds usually stay in flooded farm fields to thwart coyotes, but in the daytime most fly off to feed in surrounding farm fields. The morning “flyoff” is a spectacular event when most of the birds leave the fields in one great cloud. The views are enhanced by what are often spectacular sunrises and sunsets which I'll post later, bur first some bird photos.
From the standpoint of those who live in the PacNW, the Bosque is an opportunity to experience bird species that we don’t have in our region. I’m going to post photos of some of the birds I was able to photograph while at the Bosque. If you are interested in more information on the Bosque you can link to the following web site… but don’t leave before you view some of these photos!
Female Red-winged blackbird...
Meadowlark, Eastern or Western?
Sandhill cranes...
Sandhill cranes preparing to land...
Snow geese landing...
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