It's the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/newmex/bosque/
I haven't been there, but I enjoy watching all the sandhill cranes fly
overhead every year. Sometimes there are hundreds visible in the sky
at once, so I can only imagine that it is pretty impressive seeing
thousands on the ground.
Mark
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/13/2012 7:46 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> ... I also keep hearing about this place in New Mexico that is a birders
>> paradise in November...
>
> New Mexico? There are a series of 'sky islands' from south central to SE
> Arizona. They do continue on into NM, but get
> smaller and drier, and thus have less wildlife.
>
> These are small, No-So ranges that migrating birds use as part of their
> routes, so they tend to concentrate the flow
> into narrow corridors.
>
> I spent a couple of days in the Chiricahuas, in Ariz. on the NM border, and
> nearby areas seeing all sorts of exotic
> hummingbirds.
>
> Moose
> --
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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