Sunday, November 25, 2018

11/20-21/18 Bosque del Apache: Cranes and Geese



On Tuesday and Wednesday around dawn I went back to the wetland and was greeted by the sight of thousands of birds!

There were sandhill cranes, snow geese and several different species of ducks!

The gray birds are sandhill cranes. The white birds are snow geese.


You can see them better here! 

Soon the sandhill cranes started flying away to their feeding grounds.

See how big the cranes are compared to the geese! The cranes walked carefully through the flock of snow geese until they had enough room to take off.



They flew off in groups of two or three.

While some cranes flew off, others stretched their wings in preparation for flight.

What a beautiful morning!

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