PORTFOLIO:
DANIEL KINOSHITA

Snow geese feed in the grass at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, where they live during the winter.

Birds’ life

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IN this second of a four-part special Portfolio, Daniel Kinoshita's photo tour of New Mexico last year took him to Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, where the skillful amateur photographer captured the days and nights in the life of the 40,000 snow geese, 15,000 sandhill cranes, ducks, blackbirds and half a dozen American Bald Eagles.

Sandhill cranes and geese make a dramatic silhouette at sunset.

Kinoshita says the National Park Service plants cornfields around the refuge to attract and feed the birds. Geese and cranes feed on the corn during the day and sleep on the pond and marshes at night.

The visit to Bosque Del Apache was a boon for Kinoshita, who took the trip for the opportunity to expand on his photographs of birds, which until New Mexico, included mostly sea gulls. Now, he can safely say he's photographed thousands of birds.

A bald eagle resting on a tree make a dramatic silhouette at sunset.

Flocks of blackbirds fill the barren trees scattered throughout Bosque Del Apache. Daniel Kinoshita created a "bird ornament Christmas tree" using a Photoshop filter to create the appropriate lighting.

A lone crane gracefully lands at the wildlife refuge at dusk.

A pair of snow geese aloft are a common sight in the skies of Bosque Del Apache.

A couple of sandhill cranes call it a day in what the locals call "crane ponds."

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