{"id":38,"date":"2008-02-18T12:06:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:28:22","slug":"bosque-del-apache-bird-watch-18-feb08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Bosque Del Apache Bird Watch 18-Feb.08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is located about 15 miles South of Socorro New Mexico.\u00a0 It is one of the premier birding spots in the United States.\u00a0 I have made dozens of visits to this wonderful part of\u00a0the upper Chihuahuaian Desert.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">I arrived at the town of San Antonio just North of the refuge and managed to get a few photographs of a cemetery and ruins of and old adobe house (view galleries).\u00a0\u00a0San Antonio is a fragmented, dumpy, unincorporated little\u00a0village like so many scattered \u00a0across New Mexico.\u00a0\u00a0San Antonio\u00a0is &#8220;world renown&#8221; for the Green Chile Cheese Burger served at the Owl Bar and Caf\u00e9.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">The last of the Sandhill Cranes were still hanging out&#8230; I suppose they never saw the &#8220;flyer&#8221; that indicated\u00a0it was time to head north.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;couldn&#8217;t resist&#8230;\u00a0 The best birds of the day were a Bald Eagle and some Northern Shovelers.\u00a0\u00a0 There were also the usual birds, mallards, coots, gulls, common hawks, peeps.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s always great to go there even when the birds are not at their peak.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D38&amp;text=Bosque+Del+Apache+Bird+Watch+18-Feb.08&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is located about 15 miles South of Socorro New Mexico.\u00a0 It is one of the premier birding spots in the United States.\u00a0 I have made dozens of visits to this wonderful part of\u00a0the upper Chihuahuaian Desert.\u00a0 I arrived at the town of San Antonio just North of the refuge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=38#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,127],"tags":[4348,77,78,81,83,68,75,74,82,79,80,76],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}