Of all the images I shot while at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, none of them captured the experience I expected more than this one.  There’s at least two bird species here, sandhill cranes and snow geese, if not one or more others.  Ross’s geese look a lot like snow geese and can be difficult to tell apart at times.  Plus there were around 500 to 1,000 red-winged blackbirds swarming around at the same time I captured this image.  But the chaos of birds along with the unimaginable sound at this moment was pretty much the experience I hoped for when planning my trip.  This was only a small portion of the scene, captured with a 500mm lens.  In all, along with the mentioned red-winged blackbirds, there were hundreds of Ross’s geese, thousands of snow geese, and the sandhill cranes numbered in the hundreds up to maybe a thousand.  It was quite an experience to say the least.