On Friday I went to Socorro for The Festival of the Cranes at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. New Mexico is located in the central flyway of the Sandhill Cranes migration pattern which runs from the southern tip of South America to the Arctic Circle. Since it has been considerably warmer this fall, there was about a third of the number of cranes in the Bosque as is typical during the festival. The peak will probably occur with the first hard cold snap up north. This month's National Geographic has a neat article on migratory animals. We went to a concert by The Belleville Outfit, who play variations of folk, jazz, blues, and swing. They had everyone on the dance floor by the second song. I first heard them after they performed at a music festival two years ago (more on the festival experience here.)
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