Tag: bosque del apache
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Light Geese
The Snow Goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ~Lao Tzu On one of my first Christmas Bird Counts over 25 years ago, at what was then Pungo National Wildlife Refuge (now the expanded Pocosin Lakes NWR), I ran into a well-known birder who was scoping Read more…
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Bosque
Wherever there are birds, there is hope. ~Mehmet Murat ildan Bosque – say that to any birder or wildlife photographer, and they immediately know of what you speak. There is only one place that comes to mind – Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. It has been on my bucket list since Read more…
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No Mere Bird
When we hear his call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men. Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, Read more…
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The Shadow
I rejoice that there are owls… ~Henry David Thoreau I just returned from a very special place – Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. I came away with several thousand images, mostly of Snow Geese and Sandhill Cranes, the “stars” of Bosque. But in the predawn light and in the twilight after Read more…
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