{"id":7231,"date":"2015-02-04T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T05:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2015-02-04T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T05:52:25","slug":"12th-annual-trip-to-bosque-del-apache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/12th-annual-trip-to-bosque-del-apache\/","title":{"rendered":"12th Annual Trip to Bosque del Apache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, six of us rent a van and drive to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, south of Socorro, New Mexico. We usually make this trip closer to Christmas, but this year it was a sunny, warm day in February. We stopped at Bernardo State Wildlife Area, a beautiful area closer to Albuquerque. Birding is our official mission, but camaraderie and good food matter more. We picked up the world\u2019s best fudge in San Antonio, shared a gourmet potluck lunch at the last remaining picnic table, and had green chile cheeseburgers for dinner at the Buckhorn after sunset, including a chat with Bobby Olguin, proprietor. We were back a little more than 12 hours after we started. Here are some pictures. (<a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1AuFUSV\">See all 47<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1KtHTHf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"gourmet potluck al fresco\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gourmet potluck al fresco\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2015\/02\/DSCF4675.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"364\"\/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>The group: mjh, Kathleen, Melissa, Lew, Merri, and Dave, our ornithologist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1KtHZOS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sandhill cranes\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sandhill cranes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2015\/02\/DSCF4487.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"484\"\/><\/a><br \/>Sandhill cranes are usually more abundant than on this trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1KtI3OK\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"snow geese (Ross' geese included)\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"snow geese (Ross' geese included)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2015\/02\/DSCF4757.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"484\"\/><\/a><br \/>This was quite a gaggle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1AuFiwF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sunset\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2015\/02\/WP_20150202_17_52_01_Pro.jpg\" width=\"1028\" height=\"535\"\/><\/a><br \/>Sunset is always worth waiting for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1AuFUSV\">47 photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, six of us rent a van and drive to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, south of Socorro, New Mexico. We usually make this trip closer to Christmas, but this year it was a sunny, warm day in February. We stopped at Bernardo State Wildlife Area, a beautiful area closer to Albuquerque. Birding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/12th-annual-trip-to-bosque-del-apache\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12th Annual Trip to Bosque del Apache<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-merri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","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=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7234,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions\/7234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}