Sandhill crane spreads its broad wings as it takes flight in early morning light, Grus canadensis, New Mexico.
Coyote, pausing to look for prey as it passes through Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
Sandhilll cranes in golden sunset light, New Mexico
Snow geese at dawn. Snow geese often ""blast off"" just before or after dawn, leaving the ponds where they rest for the night to forage elsewhere during the day.
Snow geese at dawn. Snow geese often ""blast off"" just before or after dawn, leaving the ponds where they rest for the night to forage elsewhere during the day.
Snow geese in flight.
Snow geese in flight, wings are blurred in long time exposure as they are flying.
Flock of red-winged blackbirds, in flight, blurred in time exposure.
Sandhill crane in flight, wings extended.
Snow geese at sunrise, abstract blur. Long time exposure creates blurring among the geese. New Mexico.
Snow goose in flight.
Sunset at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, with sandhill cranes silhouetted in reflection in the calm pond. Spectacular sunsets at Bosque del Apache, rich in reds, oranges, yellows and purples, make for striking reflections of the thousands of cranes and geese found in the refuge each winter.
Small black bird.
Sandhill cranes flying, wings blurred from long time exposure.
Snow geese, and one of the ""crane pools"" in the northern part of Bosque del Apache NWR.
Sandhill cranes, flying across a colorful sunset sky, blur wings due to long time exposure.
Sandhill cranes in flight, silhouetted against a richly colored evening sky. A composite of two photographs taken moments apart, combined digitally.
Snow geese blast off. After resting and preening on water, snow geese are startled by a coyote, hawk or just wind and take off en masse by the thousands. As many as 50,000 snow geese are found at Bosque del Apache NWR at times, stopping at the refuge during their winter migration along the Rio Grande River.
Snow geese rest on a still pond in rich orange and yellow sunrise light. These geese have spent their night's rest on the main empoundment and will leave around sunrise to feed in nearby corn fields.
A sandhill crane is perfectly reflected, in mirror-calm waters at sunrise.
Sandhill crane in flight, in dim sunset light, wings blurred due to time exposure.
Sandhill cranes in flight in early morning light.
Sandhill cranes in flight, silhouetted against a richly colored evening sky. A composite of two photographs taken moments apart, combined digitally.
Snow geese in flight, late afternoon light.
Snow goose in flight.
A flock of snow geese in flight.
Snow geese and sandhill cranes.
A flock of snow geese in flight.
Snow geese and sandhill cranes.
Snow geese in flight at sunrise. Bosque del Apache NWR is winter home to many thousands of snow geese which are often see in vast flocks in the sky.
Snow geese and sandhill cranes.
Sandhill crane in flight, sunset.
Snow geese in flight at sunrise. Bosque del Apache NWR is winter home to many thousands of snow geese which are often see in vast flocks in the sky.
Sandhill crane flying, early morning light.
Sandhill cranes flying, wings blurred from long time exposure.
Sunrise and colorful clouds fill the sky.
Sandhill crane in flight, wings extended, flying in front of the Chupadera Mountain Range.
Flocks of geese at sunrise, in flight.
Flocks of geese at sunrise, in flight.