Time to move on. After one last visit to the crane pond, slept in an 45 minutes, we packed up the trailers and drove 2 1/2 hours south to Las Cruces. After phoning a few RV parks to check rates and looking on-line at reviews we decided to stay at Sunny Acres RV park. The RV park is in an industrial area of the city but the park itself is very nice, large lots with a few trees and no park models. After we were set up, the boys went shopping to Best Buy and Carol and I took the dogs for a walk. Enjoyed a glass of wine instead of going to the crane pond for sunset --- kind of missed that.

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To the east, there were huge flocks of Snow Geese.

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The Sandhill Cranes are large enough that they need to run before they can take off.

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Looks like someone is getting a scolding.

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We did see a few other types of birds but the Snow Geese and Sandhill Cranes got all of the attention.