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Feb 12, 2009 - Bosque del Apache

37 degrees this morning with cloud cover, no sunrise shoots of the sandhill or snow guess this morning. Did have several flights of snow guess fly through the moon, made for a very nice background. In the afternoon we drove about 70 miles to the Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope. The VLA consists of 27, 82 foot dish antennas, each weighing 230 tons. These antennas were featured in Jodie Foster’s movie “Contact”. They are arranged on a Y track each leg being 13 miles long. We took a 35 mile gravel back road across the NM high desert to...

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Feb 11, 2009 - Bosque del Apache

We awoke to 20 degrees this morning and clear skies. At sunrise we were at a pond which had several hundred sandhill cranes waiting for sunrise and their first flight of the day. The sunrise provided a very nice illumination of the cranes first flight of the day all with a background of a full moon. Later in the day we watched thousands of snow geese feed and raft up on a pond. It is a mystery on what cues the geese to in mass take flight circle the pond and in mass return to the pond. I was in a great spot to capture this phenomenon in a...

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Feb 10, 2009 - Bosque del Apache

Awoke to snow and wind, we left the camp ground at 10:00 and visited the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque. Left the zoo at 3:00 PM and headed south to Bosque del Apache Wildlife Management Refuge. We watched the evening flights of thousands of sandhill cranes and snow geese returning to the refuge for the evening. Sunrise is at 6:58AM, we hope to be able to watch the morning flights of the sandhill cranes and snow geese.

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