{"id":209,"date":"2005-12-27T14:34:17","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/bosque-del-apache\/"},"modified":"2007-03-24T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T23:59:54","slug":"bosque-del-apache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/bosque-del-apache\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosque del Apache"},"content":{"rendered":"

bird watchingWe made our annual pilgrimage to <\/p>\n

Bosque del Apache last week. This is the third year we have rented a van to carry six of us: Mer, me, Melissa, Lew, Kathleen and Dave, <\/p>\n

our ornithologist. Dave’s ability to identify birds with the briefest of sightings or just by sound is very impressive. Where I see “a <\/p>\n

bunch of birds in a bush,” he sees a dozen or more species. <\/p>\n

watching me watching \n\nyouOverall, I think we saw fewer individual birds. In particular, there seemed to be far fewer cranes than usual. <\/p>\n

Still, we got to see plenty of birds between noon and sunset, including coots, grebes, a pheasant, kestrels, pintails, bald eagles, <\/p>\n

harriers, red tail hawks, a merganzer, a great blue heron, and a road runner.<\/p>\n

A key part of our expedition is grazing. Everyone <\/p>\n

contributes great food, most of it homemade and gourmet. We munch at stops and have a real meal at on one of the decks. After dark, we <\/p>\n

stop in San Antonio for burgers, usually at the Owl, but this time at the Buckhorn, which most of us liked more. <\/p>\n

sunset at Bosque del ApacheMy favorite bird-specific <\/p>\n

moment was seeing a harrier (aka marsh hawk) harassing a red-tailed hawk.<\/p>\n

The big show is the fly-in at sunset (or fly-out at <\/p>\n

sunrise, which I think is a little more spectacular — one year Mer and I saw both). There is nothing like the symphony of geese and <\/p>\n

cranes and the rustle and squeak of the feathers in their wings. <\/p>\n

The colors of this sunset were stunning. Though the groups <\/p>\n

flying in seemed smaller and fewer, we lingered past dark, delighted as always. mjh<\/span><\/p>\n

PS: See some of my photos<\/a> from the trip; from there, follow the link to <\/p>\n

similarly tagged photos from other photographers. My blog-bud, johnny_mango, rode bikes with MaryAnn around the bosque last week; read his entry<\/a> and see his photos. <\/p>\n

Technical <\/p>\n

Note: if these pictures don’t align to the left or right with text flowing around them, you may need to force a refresh of the <\/p>\n

stylesheet — try Ctrl+Refresh (hold down the Ctrl-key as you click the Refresh\/Reload button).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We made our annual pilgrimage to Bosque del Apache last week. This is the third year we have rented a van to carry six of us: Mer, me, Melissa, Lew, Kathleen and Dave, our ornithologist. Dave’s ability to identify birds with the briefest of sightings or just by sound is very impressive. Where I see … Continue reading Bosque del Apache<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}