{"id":601,"date":"2008-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/sandhill-crane-in-flight-bosque-del-apache\/"},"modified":"2023-12-24T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T02:55:22","slug":"sandhill-crane-in-flight-bosque-del-apache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/sandhill-crane-in-flight-bosque-del-apache.html","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Crane in Flight, Bosque del Apache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped to get a few good photos of a single <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/sandhill_crane_photo.html\">sandhill crane<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Grus_canadensis\">Grus canadensis<\/a><\/em>) in flight during our visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bosque_del_apache_national_wildlife_refuge_photo.html\">Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>. Sandhill cranes are relatively large birds, meaning they are relatively easy to find in the viewfinder and they fly relatively slowly, helpful characteristics for a struggling bird photographer. The best ones I shot were taken on the final morning of our trip. This one was nearly at eye level, having just taken off from one of the crane pools shortly after sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sandhill crane spreads its broad wings as it takes flight in...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=21797\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sandhill crane spreads its broad wings as it takes flight in early morning light. This crane is one of over 5000 present in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, stopping here during its winter migration, Grus canadensis, Socorro, New Mexico\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/bosque-del-apache-sandhill-crane-picture-21797-441178.jpg\" alt=\"Sandhill crane spreads its broad wings as it takes flight in early morning light. This crane is one of over 5000 present in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, stopping here during its winter migration, Grus canadensis, Socorro, New Mexico\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sandhill crane spreads its broad wings as it takes flight in early morning light. This crane is one of over 5000 present in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, stopping here during its winter migration.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=21797\">21797<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Sandhill crane photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/sandhill_crane_photo.html\">Sandhill crane<\/a>, <a title=\"Grus canadensis photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Grus_canadensis\"><i>Grus canadensis<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=bosque_del_apache_national_wildlife_refuge&amp;city=socorro&amp;state=new_mexico&amp;country=usa\">Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=socorro&amp;state=new_mexico&amp;country=usa\">Socorro<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=new_mexico&amp;country=usa\">New Mexico<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bosque_del_apache_national_wildlife_refuge_photo.html\">photos of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/sandhill_crane_photo.html\">photos of Sand Hillcranes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped to get a few good photos of a single sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) in flight during our visit to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Sandhill cranes are relatively large birds, meaning they are relatively easy to find in the viewfinder and they fly relatively slowly, helpful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,151,97],"tags":[212],"class_list":{"0":"post-601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birds","8":"category-bosque-del-apache","9":"category-new-mexico","10":"tag-birds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11708,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/11708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}