New Mexico: Rio Grande basin

Pictures in the Socorro-Las Cruces area along the Rio Grande, New Mexico, in 2011-2012.

Sunset near Magdalena, New Mexico.
Sandhill cranes.
Sandhill cranes, part of a crowd of about 1,000 of them in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro.
Devils Backbone and South Baldy peaks in the Madgalena Mountains, between Socorro and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
The Very Large Array, a radio telescope array on the Plains of San Agustin, west of Socorro.
Snow geese near the entrance to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.