{"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 — day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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

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’est la vie!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Red-Tailed Hawk, Perched, Bosque Del Apache, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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

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White-Tailed Kite, Bosque Del Apache.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[423,32,1920,31,1919,1756,1918,831],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-bosque-del-apache","tag-hawk","tag-kite","tag-raptor","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-refuge","tag-white-tailed-kite","tag-wildlife-refuge"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t