Our last day in Alamosa we visited two different wildlife refuges in the area. One was only about a half a mile from where we were staying and the other is about 25 miles away. The first one has the Rio Grand River running through it. The Rio Grande starts in this area of Colorado and is much smaller in this area.
Alamosa Wildlife Refuge
View of refuge
some type of raptor
View in refugee
Sandhill Cranes
Duck getting food
Duck when he came up
Cattails
Snake
Bird
Raptor
Close up of raptor
Raptor flying
Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge
Cranes
Raptor flying
Raptor
Raptor
Raptor
Ducks and geese
Ducks and geese
Canadian Geese
Close up of cattail
View of sand dunes as we came back from wildlife refuge