Thanksgiving

Some New Mexicans take their Thanksgiving holiday meal as a tailgate party at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. It's not very cold yet, the big impressive birds have arrived (and the ducks haven't moved on south yet). The bird count on the Friends of the Bosque site reads:
   43,250 light geese
   82,174 ducks
   12,000 sandhill cranes
   2 eagles
plus some miscellany. Great blue herons. Hawks. Falcons. Canada geese. Like that. :-)
       NPR had a story about the sandhill cranes at the Bosque earlier this week. The soundtrack behind the narrator, the cranes talking their crane-y talk, is wonderful.
       We hope you enjoy your holiday, however you are spending it. The cranes and geese will stick around until the latter part of February. So you have plenty of time to get down there.