In lieu of watching the Super Bowl today, I opted to take advantage of near 70-degree spring-like weather, and I headed down past Socorro to Bosque del Apache to visit whatever critters might be there. And it was a nice and quiet, gentle-sun-on-my-face slow-rollin’ kind of afternoon. I drove the south loop and then the north loop, stopping at populated ponds to visit the birds. I tried several times to photograph hawks in flight, each one failing. It’s okay. Those sure are pretty birds. After fighting with my cameras to try and get some workable settings, I saw a blue heron, several deer, several murmurings, many many snow geese, some cranes here and there, and the aforementioned hawks. At sunset, I ended up at the main North Pond where this trunk in the pond is a popular avian roost. I then ate my packed salad dinner on a picnic table at the empty visitor center area and watched the sky darken before I submitted and hit the road to come back home. Bosque del Apache is always lovely to visit, at any time of the year.