Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Bosque del Apache Winter Bird Viewing
On January 17, 2009, we visited Bosque del Apache, a Bird Refuge south of Socorro.The refuge covers about 57,000 acres along the Rio Grande River. With its moist bottomlands and active floodplains surrounded by arid mesas, it is home to thousands of overwintering birds. Sandhill and whooping cranes, herons, snow geese, ducks and eagles are the usual inhabitants but you may get lucky and see egrets, ibis, pelegrin facons, storks and cormorants. And would you care to know about gails, gallines, coots, stils and avocets? We got there late in the day and had the pleasure of watching the cranes and geese fly in for the night from surrounging feeding fields. And as a bonus, we got to enjoy a spectacular New Mexico sunset.
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