Bernardo Wildlife Area

Sandhill Cranes!

Seems everyone has heard of Bosque del apache nwr as a good place to see the migratory Sandhill Cranes but few have heard of Bernardo. The advantage here is that you can get much closer to the birds, ...

Worth a look

We were told by some locals that this was a place to at least drive through. Sometimes there are more sandhill cranes here than there are at Bosque. It is a much smaller park and does not take as long...

Simply amazing

We visited in early February 2017. The cranes seemed to have mostly moved away from Bosque del Apache but there were still hundreds/thousands of geese and cranes in this location. It was an amazing e...

Great place to see the cranes

A quiet place where you can see thousands of sandhill cranes, snow geese, and ducks in the winter. There is a ~1 mile loop to drive around where you will see the cranes in the corn fields. At the so...

Great place to view cranes and snow geese

This is a free drive through fields where the cranes and snow geese migrate to. We saw thousands of birds. If the birds aren't in Bosque they are usually here. Well worth the drive through. It is just...