Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM
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Go!, Snow Geese, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 8, 2011
Six seconds later
This is my next photo, shot a mere six seconds after yesterday's picture that anticipated this explosion of snow geese. From the sudden quacking cacophony I sensed something was up and swung my camera away from some cranes I was focussed on and just in time too. Wow!
Night camp
Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM
- This is a basic, small Mom & Pop RV Park with full hookups.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park on my Night Camps map
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Alex Can Think
Animal researchers are finally beginning to catch up to the little old ladies in tennis shoes who say Fifi the poodle can think. The fights are always between a big group of experts who think animals don't have a lot of feelings or aren't very smart, and a much smaller group of researchers who think there's a lot more going on inside an animal's head than we know. The really nasty fights always seem to go one way: it's always the animal "debunkers" who are on the attack. At least, I don't remember a single big academic fight where someone got fired or lost their funding for doing a study where the animal turned out to be dumber than people thought, and lots of studies like that have been done. Claiming that an animal can't do something isn't considered blasphemous.