{"id":9880,"date":"2024-01-31T20:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T03:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2024-01-31T20:41:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T03:41:30","slug":"bosque-del-apache-january-2024-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/bosque-del-apache-january-2024-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosque Del Apache, January 2024 &#8212; day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The morning of the third day, was the last opportunity to visit Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge before heading back home. Leaving the hotel, I headed to the north loop of the refuge. I did find a Northern Harrier but it was too far away and spent a lot on time on the ground in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as I continued along the road, I noticed a Red-Tailed Hawk in a tree across from the irrigation channel by the roadside. I just waited to see what would happen and made several of images, including the following one. Red-Tailed Hawks have a very distinctive call that I heard several times from this hawk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on, while we were reviewing images at home, we noticed that there was a second Red-Tailed Hawk hidden behind the branches to the left of this hawk. I never noticed the second bird, and therefore did not attempt to capture an image with two hawks. C&#8217;est la vie!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2955-0014-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Bosque-Del-Apache-No-2.jpg\" alt=\"2955-0014-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Bosque-Del-Apache-No-2\" class=\"wp-image-9870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2955-0014-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Bosque-Del-Apache-No-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2955-0014-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Bosque-Del-Apache-No-2-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Red-Tailed Hawk, Perched, Bosque Del Apache, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There were several reports of a pair of White-Tailed Kites at Bosque Del Apache. Soon, rounding a bend, I noticed several folks who had stopped along the road. They had found one of the kites. So I got my gear out and captured several images. This kite was a fair distance away, and so it was small in the frame. What luck!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2955-0058-White-Tailed-Kite-Bosque-Del-Apache.jpg\" alt=\"2955-0058-White-Tailed-Kite-Bosque-Del-Apache\" class=\"wp-image-9871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2955-0058-White-Tailed-Kite-Bosque-Del-Apache.jpg 800w, https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2955-0058-White-Tailed-Kite-Bosque-Del-Apache-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White-Tailed Kite, Bosque Del Apache.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The previous day, I had met a lady who was asking about the kites. Soon she arrived, so I pointed the kite out to her. We chatted a while, and then I left the refuge to make my way home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning of the third day, was the last opportunity to visit Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge before heading back home. Leaving the hotel, I headed to the north loop of the refuge. 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