Part Thirteen: Still Pools, Teeming with life at the edge
SUNLAND PARK —Swifts fly to and from a bridge near the Sunland Park pools to roost for the night in nests they have built out of sediment from around the river. (Photo by Diana Cervantes for Source NM)
Swift nests they have built out of sediment from around the river. (Photo by Diana Cervantes for Source NM)
“Any real shift takes time, and there’s not much left. The Rio Grande remains suspended on the bleeding edge of climate change.”
Groundwater pools into the Rio Grande riverbed, offering refuge to black-necked stilts, waterfowl, even a rogue peacock. (Photo by Diana Cervantes for Source NM)
Trucks occasionally rumble over the Sunland Park pools, cut by a train horn in the distance. Otherwise, sounds of the city slip away, and the twittering of swallows dominates the pools. (Photo by Diana Cervantes for Source NM)
A black-necked stilt flying over the shallow pools. (Photo by Diana Cervantes for Source NM)