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Jan 01

Brrrrr!

Birds, Bosque, Winter Comments Off
A pair of ducks perch on the ice in a pond at Bosque del Apache NWR

Ducks on Ice

A pair of ducks perch on ice in a pond at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, south of Socorro.

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Nov 27
a snow geese flyover at the Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Area

Snow Geese Flyover

A flyover: when hundreds of snow geese all of a sudden rise up into the air and fly over you in a dense cloud. The sound is amazing — a mix of cacophonous squawks and the whoosh-whoosh of flapping wings — and a flyover always brings me to my knees. One of the most awe-inspiring experiences I’ve ever had.

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Oct 02
turkey vulture sitting high in a tree, sunning itself

Turkey Vulture

A turkey vulture suns itself in the Rio Grande Bosque.

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Jun 13
roadrunner in a tree

Roadrunner

Right in the middle of Albuquerque (within ¼ mile of the Big I). This is the roadrunner who I often see … um … running across Indian School Road. Which is exactly what he did as soon as he noticed me taking his portrait.

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Mar 17
a pigeon sits atop a caring of the virgin of guadalupe in a cottonwood tree

Madonna and Pigeon

This carving of the Virgin of Guadalupe is in a cottonwood tree behind the San Felipe de Neri church in Albuquerque’s Old Town. I was told that the carving was originally done by a veteran returned from the Korean War — that he made the carving in thanks for his safe return from the war.

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