migration patterns changed older population of snow geese now, but a very large population./ android phone limits text ..apologies

details on snow goose populations are astounding. increased historicaly but gosling survival is down...tundra damage extensive up north..changed migra

7,ooo cranes new count tomorrow promised by f&w great snow goose ecology workshop by john vradenburg will have photos tomorrow no wifi here

city of socorro, sponsoring the festival of the cranes along with the refuge and the friends

40 sandhills hundreds of ducks big redtail while crossing rio grande at isleta cottonwoods less color here

trees in Albuquerque are still yellow gold red ... beautiful fall colors the bosque will be wonderful again this year.

am heading for festival 12 am from santa fe will report this afternoom

driving past the sandia mountains

We've had a report of 2 Mississippi Kites at the Flight Deck.

More Sandhill Cranes are arriving. Snow and cold and fog up north should bring in more cranes a little later this evening.

The Festival is setting up a silent auction here at the Festival with lots of great donated items, the sale of which will support the Emerson Learn Bus Scholarship Endowment Fund. The permanent fund was started in Emerson's memory by the Friends of the Bosque in coordination with the family of G. Emerson Learn III. It provides stipends for New Mexico schools to visit the Refuge.

Encouraging education about the value and beauty of the natural world - birds and wildlife and the habitat which they rely on for survival- is a key goal of the Friends.

Long Lenses Photography- pre Festival workshop with the fun and helpful and talented Jerry Goffe- we will interview him in a few days...