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Saturday, February 26, 2011 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Anticipation, Sandhill Cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 23, 2011
Anticipation, Sandhill Cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 23, 2011

Climbing out

Spring is in the wind. The last of the Cranes have been climbing thermals in small groups all afternoon, disappearing out of sight, gaining altitude for the first stage of a long flight north.

Night camp

Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

A Call to Nature

"About as far as from here to the station," went on Mr. Baca, "was a graveyard where the gang was supposed to camp out. I rode over to it and found where they had lunched the day before. There were {Begin deleted text}sardin{End deleted text} {Begin inserted text}{Begin handwritten}sardine{End handwritten}{End inserted text} cans and cracker boxes and one thing and another. Then I found where one of them had had a call to nature. I told one of my men to put it in a can. Saiz didn't know about this, and in a little while he went over behind some mesquite {Begin page no. 4}bushes and had a call to nature. After he came back I sent my man over, and by God it was the same stuff -- the same beans and red chili seeds! So I put Saiz under arrest and sent him back to the jail at Socorro with one of my deputies, although he kept saying he couldn't see what I was arresting him for."

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