{"id":3468,"date":"2015-12-11T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T04:01:17","slug":"bosque-del-apache-ipt-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/11\/bosque-del-apache-ipt-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosque del Apache IPT Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of my favorite shots from the recent Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge Instructional Photo Tour.\u00a0 Actually, it may take three or four newsletters to share these since I had a\u00a0LOT of favorites.<\/p>\n<p>The refuge is known for its thousands of snow geese, but this year the birds were hard to access because of the\u00a0absence corn\u00a0crops near the auto tour drive.\u00a0 So, you won&#8217;t see\u00a0many geese in this batch but their absence is compensated by a plethora of sandhill crane images.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Click on the image to increase\u00a0its size and sharpness.\u00a0 Advance by clicking on the right side of an image.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3469\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1943.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3468]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1943-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Pair of sandhill cranes leaving the roost at eye-level with the photographers.\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1943-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1943-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1943.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pair of sandhill cranes leaving the roost at eye-level with the photographers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3470\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Crane_79A0584.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3468]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Crane_79A0584-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Sandhill crane leaves the roost pond with a running start in shallow water.\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Crane_79A0584-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Crane_79A0584-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Crane_79A0584.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandhill crane leaves the roost pond with a running start in shallow water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3471\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1014.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3468]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1014-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Adult and young sandhill cranes in flight\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1014-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1014-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sandhill-Cranes_79A1014.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult and young sandhill cranes in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3472\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sunset_MG_9614.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3468]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sunset_MG_9614-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Cranes coming to roost after sunset with Chupadera Wilderness in the background.\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sunset_MG_9614-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sunset_MG_9614-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sunset_MG_9614.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cranes coming to roost after sunset with Chupadera Wilderness in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more images tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Larry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of my favorite shots from the recent Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge Instructional Photo Tour.\u00a0 Actually, it may take three or four newsletters to share these since I had a\u00a0LOT of favorites. The refuge is known for its thousands of snow geese, but this year the birds were hard to access &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/11\/bosque-del-apache-ipt-favorites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bosque del Apache IPT Favorites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}