Bosque del Apache in 1989
Apr 11, 2017 10:00:31 #
I am posting these pictures here so they will be available for reference in other posts I make.
In the last days of 1989, while slowly making our way home to Indiana from my brother's wedding in Arizona, we stopped at Bosque del Apache to see the crane population there {my wife is a bird watcher}. This flock is special in that it started off as a Sandhill Crane flock, but when Whooping Cranes were so endangered, biologists put some Whooping Crane eggs in Sandhill Crane nests, and the adult cranes raised all the young birds in their nest. Thus by the time we visited, the flock had adult birds of both breeds. My maximum "reach" in 1989, was 200mm on a 35mm camera, but these pictures still do a good job of showing what they were intended to show - a bright white Whooping Crane with his/her duller {in color} Sandhill Crane neighbors.
In the last days of 1989, while slowly making our way home to Indiana from my brother's wedding in Arizona, we stopped at Bosque del Apache to see the crane population there {my wife is a bird watcher}. This flock is special in that it started off as a Sandhill Crane flock, but when Whooping Cranes were so endangered, biologists put some Whooping Crane eggs in Sandhill Crane nests, and the adult cranes raised all the young birds in their nest. Thus by the time we visited, the flock had adult birds of both breeds. My maximum "reach" in 1989, was 200mm on a 35mm camera, but these pictures still do a good job of showing what they were intended to show - a bright white Whooping Crane with his/her duller {in color} Sandhill Crane neighbors.
Apr 12, 2017 06:42:04 #
Apr 12, 2017 14:01:48 #
Tikva
Loc: Waukesha, WI
Thanks for the background on these photos. I'm always learning new things on this site.
Apr 13, 2017 01:07:22 #
Apr 13, 2017 08:46:45 #
Tikva wrote:
Thanks for the background on these photos. I'm always learning new things on this site.
Thank you for your comments. I'm glad to hear that this can stand on its own.
Apr 14, 2017 17:41:39 #
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