- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* August 15, 2005
* NMEX0508.15
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Eared, Western and Clark's Grebes (Colfax)
Western Grebe (Catron)
BROWN PELICAN (Bernalillo)
American Bittern (Socorro)
Least Bittern (Chaves)
Great Egret (Colfax, San Miguel)
Snowy Egret (Valencia)
Cattle Egret (Colfax)
Green Heron (Sierra)
White-faced Ibis (Colfax)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK (Luna)
Snow and Bar-headed Goose (Socorro)
Mexican Mallard (Hidalgo)
Osprey (Catron, San Miguel)
WHITE-TAILED KITE (Hidalgo)
Harris's Hawk (Luna)
Gray Hawk (Hidalgo)
Zone-tailed Hawk (San Miguel, Sierra)
Peregrine Falcon (Colfax)
White-tailed Ptarmigan (Taos)
Chukar (Hidalgo)
Wild Turkey (Bernalillo)
Northern Bobwhite (Sandoval. Hidalgo)
Montezuma Quail (Catron)
Sora (Socorro)
Virginia Rail and Moorhen (Valencia)
Common Moorhen (Socorro, Chaves)
Black-bellied Plover (Sierra, Chaves)
Willet (Socorro)
Spotted Sandpiper (Cibola, Catron)
Upland Sandpiper (Eddy. Chaves)
Solitary Sandpiper (Bernalillo, Catron)
Marbled Godwit (Chaves)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Valencia, Chaves)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Socorro)
Stilt Sandpiper (Valencia)
Wilson's Phalarope (Catron)
LAUGHING Gull (Sierra)
Least Tern (Chaves)
Black Tern (Socorro. Bernalillo)
Common Ground-Dove (Hidalgo)
Western Screech-Owl (Bernalillo)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Catron, Grant)
Violet-crowned Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Magnificent Hummingbird (Grant, Catron)
Anna's Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Calliope Hummingbird (Doņa Ana, Cibola, Catron, Grant)
Calliope and Rufous Hummingbird (Catron)
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (Lea)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Doņa Ana)
Rufous Hummingbird (Catron)
ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD (Eddy)
Three-toed Woodpecker (Bernalillo)
Willow Flycatcher (Bernalillo)
Black Phoebe (Cibola)
Eastern Phoebe (San Miguel)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Socorro)
GREATER KISKADEE (Lea)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Cochise, Arizona by Hidalgo)
Gray Vireo (Socorro, Hidalgo)
Cave Swallow (Eddy)
American Dipper (Colfax)
Gray Catbird (Colfax)
Bendire's Thrasher (Hidalgo)
Phainopepla (Doņa Ana)
Olive and Townsend's Warblers (Grant)
Prothonotary Warbler (Colfax)
HERMIT WARBLER (Grant)
Red-faced Warbler (Hidalgo)
Painted Redstart (Catron)
Botteri's Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Lark Sparrow (Doņa Ana)
Timberline Brewer's Sparrow (Bernalillo)
Lark Bunting (Sierra, Sandoval, Catron)
Indigo Bunting (Sierra)
Varied Bunting (Hidalgo)
Painted Bunting (Chaves, Sierra)
Bronzed Cowbird (Lea)
Orchard Oriole (Chaves)
Red Crossbill (Cibola)
Pine Siskin (Luna)
American Goldfinch (Grant)
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hotline: New Mexico
Date: August 15, 2005
RBA phone number 505-884-3269.
compiler Patricia R. Snider
home phone number 505-884-1320.
e-mail address Pinyonjay@aol.com.
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for August 15, 2005,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Kiskadee,
Roseate Spoonbill, Prothonotary Warbler. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck.
Most places mentioned and a checklist of N.M. birds are in the N.M. Bird
Finding Guide. All N.M. phone numbers are area code 505. For past RBA's
check the NMOS web page at www.nmosbirds.org. For photos of rarities and
directions to NM birding sites check hometown.aol.com/borealowl.
For Bird Records Committee and both Field Notes send reports to Dr. Sartor O.
Williams, III, 1819 Meadowview NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104.
In Sandoval County:
SO on August 13 had 15 LARK BUNTINGS at the Bernalillo Watershed a half
mile on Forest Road 445 from the west parking lot.
TB on July 28 had an escaped BOBWHITE in Corrales on Loma Larga between
Angel Road and Villa de Paz.
In Taos County:
A team went up to the Santa Barbara Ridge and found two WHITE-TAILED
PTARMIGANS. It's a rigorous climb from 10,200 to 12,400 feet. Take NM 518 to
Angostura and then Forest Road 161 west to the trailhead parking lot. JP, JO,
and others made the climb on July 16 and found two more ptarmigans.
In San Miguel County:
EL had an EASTERN PHOEBE at Villanueva State Park August 4.\ LD had an
OSPREY at Middle Marsh on the Las Vegas Refuge on August 12. JA on July 28
had a GREAT EGRET at McAllister Lake near the Las Vegas Refuge. It then moved
to Browns Marsh on the refuge through August 3. BW found it back on
McAllister on August 10 with a ZONE-TAILED HAWK in the Gallinas River Canyon on the
Charles R Ranch just southeast of Las Vegas.
In Colfax County:
ElW on August 10 had a male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER (photos) at the Tolby
Campground east of Eagle Nest in the Cimarron Canyon State Park along the
stream. DC saw it there on August 10 and 13.
He also had several CATBIRDS and a DIPPER.
DC on Stubblefield Lake saw EARED, WESTERN and CLARK'S GREBES and
WHITE-FACED IBIS with young. On August 8 there was also two COMMON LOONS, single
GREAT and CATTLE EGRETS, and a PEREGRINE.
In Cibola County:
CJG at El Morro Monument this week reported a CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD. On
August 9 he saw their first ever BLACK PHOEBE with two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS on
August 8, both at the sewage ponds. At the Malpais Monument center are still
quite a few RED CROSSBILLS.
JT found several phases of RED CROSSBILLS in the Zuni Mountains.
In Bernalillo County:
JP on August 14 had a BLACK TERN at the parking lot ponds at the Rio
Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque. He found the pond area at Tramway and Fourth
was full, with only a SOLITARY SANDPIPER.
A surprise for DvC while driving east of Albuquerque in Tijeras Canyon
was a BROWN PELICAN flying over I-40 headed northeast on August 8. Will it make
it to a lake?
NC says they began banding at the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque
on August 7 and banded a WILLOW FLYCATCHER and a TIMBERLINE BREWER'S SPARROW.
MC on August 1 saw about ten TURKEYS on the Ellis Trail near its junction
with the Osha Loop Trail in the Sandia Mountains.
CR on Sandia Crest on the trail to the Kiwanis Meadows from the lower
parking lot found two THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS. On July 22 PK found them below the
Kiwanis Cabin and TG saw two on the upper trail.
MH on August 4 found a dead (and a live} MOORHEN and a dead VIRGINIA RAIL
with other critters at the Isleta Marsh, possibly road-kills.
RY reports the WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS haven't been seen at the Nature
Center this summer.
In Valencia County:
At the Taco Bell marsh in Belen MH on August 4 had a STILT SANDPIPER and
a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. EL on August 6 saw 54 SNOWY EGRETS and two Stilt
Sandpipers.
In Socorro County:
On August 1 on Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio CL saw a male
VERMILION FLYCATCHER near Audio Stop 7 and two SNOW GEESE still present. MH on
August 4 saw two SORAS and two PECTORAL SANDPIPERS south of the Marsh Deck. GF on
August 7 had 12 BLACK TERNS at the east side of the Marsh Loop and an
AMERICAN BITTERN in the heronry at the east end of the middle road, while BW and JNM
on August 8 had one willet and a juvenile MOORHEN at the southeast corner of
the Marsh Loop. MS and JZ found the escaped BAR-HEADED GOOSE still present on
August 6.
On NM 60 west of Socorro at mile post 131.5 is a dirt road goes south
(left) into The Box cliffs. It then continues past the restroom and up into the
pinyons. JJ saw a GRAY VIREO there on July 31.
In Chaves County:
WW and GW on July 20 had a ROSEATE SPOONBILL at Bitter Lake Refuge on
Unit 15. GW had a LEAST BITTERN on the south half of Unit 15. GW found a
MOORHEN on Unit 15 on August 3. JO and LL on August 5 located the spoonbill at the
Oxbow and later on 15. At headquarters JP reported a male PAINTED BUNTING and
a male ORCHARD ORIOLE. On August 13 JP and WW found the spoonbill in the
same two places with a MARBLED GODWIT, a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and heard a
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and three UPLAND SANDPIPERS. There were five LEAST TERNS.
RC saw the spoonbill on August 12.
In Sierra County:
JO and RV on August 6 had a first winter LAUGHING GULL and a breeding
plumage BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER at North Monticello Point of Elephant Butte Lake.
On August 6 EW reported a GREEN HERON and a PAINTED BUNTING at Paseo del Rio
park below the dam.
JNM and BW on August 6 at the Ladder Ranch at the end of Animas Canyon
near Caballo Lake had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK, an INDIGO BUNTING, and many LARK
BUNTINGS.
In Catron County:
JH at Quemado Lake on August 9 had a WESTERN GREBE, a SOLITARY SANDPIPER,
and a WILSON'S PHALAROPE.
On August 4 at their ranch east of Datil there was two LARK BUNTINGS and
a SPOTTED SANDPIPER. At her feeders there about 60 RUFOUS and 12 CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRDS.
CL saw a MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRD at the antique shop feeder in Mogollon
on August 11 with two MONTEZUMA QUAILS with young on August 10 a half mile east
of Mogollon. At Snow Lake to the east there was an OSPREY and two CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRDS not at a feeder on August 11. On August 10 he had a PYGMY OWL
at the Gilita Campground at the lake.
CL had one or two PAINTED REDSTARTS along the river at Pleasanton August 12.
In Grant County:
At the home of JDM near Lake Roberts CL saw three MAGNIFICENT
HUMMINGBIRDS and 15 to 20 CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRDS on August 9. An AMERICAN GOLDFINCH
was at
the Grey Feathers Lodge on August 10.
On August 10 CL at Signal Peak in the mountains north of Pinos Altos saw
one or two more male MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRDS. On the road up to the peak
there was one or two HERMIT WARBLERS, over 50 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, two OLIVE
WARBLERS, and with CB a PYGMY OWL.
In Hidalgo County:
On the Gray Ranch (now the Diamond A Ranch) a quarter mile south of the
intersection of the road to Clanton Canyon and County 1 DK and JR saw two
WHITE-TAILED KITES. STAY ON THE ROAD ON THE RANCH. WW saw one kite on July 22
perched
in a line of trees on the west side of 1 about 150 yards from the road. CL
sighted two on July 30 and JB, MB, and NP saw one two miles south of that
junction on August 8.
JSt found two more kites at a second location off hwy. 1 about 14 miles south
of Animas on the east side of the road towards the XT Ranch on August 4.
This area is still off limits from the road. On August 6 JNM and BW had one kite
west of the road at mile marker 28 another hunting between markers 30 and 31.
BW and JNM also had two BOTTERI'S SPARROWS south of marker 13, a BENDIRE'S
THRASHER about three miles south of Animas, and two COMMON GROUND-DOVES at
marker 29 on the road's edge.
In Clanton Canyon at the campground CL had on July 30 an ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD
immature male. While hiking the canyon trail just east of the Turkey Seep and
a half mile north to Wittmore Canyon he found a RED-FACED WARBLER.
On August 7 in the New Mexico part of Guadalupe Canyon BW and JNM
reported a serious flash flood had recently passed through. They had many VARIED
BUNTINGS, six to eight VIOLET-CROWNED HUMMINGBIRDS, two GRAY HAWKS near the
ranch, three GRAY VIREOS north of the road before the orchard, and a calling
BOBWHITE. JB and CL found it is a pet at the ranch with a Chukar and two Mexican
Mallards. JB, MB, and NP had the Gray Hawks on August 9.
In Cochise County, Arizona:
Along Stateline Road near the junction with Portal Road on August 9 KK
and SK reported a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER, apparently on the Arizona side.
In Luna County:
LM at 10:40 on August 15 had a BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK in Deming at
the lake on the Pecan Trailer Park just east of town.
West of Deming and south on NM 418 JNM and BW on August 6 saw a HARRIS'S
HAWK just past mile marker 5 at Pearl Onion Road.
LM had a GREEN HERON on July 28 at the Pecan Park pond, while the PINE
SISKIN was still present at the Mountain View Cemetery.
In Doņa Ana County:
DG at his Las Cruces home had two returning LARK SPARROWS and a male
PHAINOPEPLA on July 29, a BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD male on August 3, and CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRDS from Jul 21 to 29.
MS reports that their feeders near Radium Springs have been busy with
about 150 hummingbirds. By August 14 there were still five to six CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRD present.
In Otero County:
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo CL reports that the 'no access'
signs are for hunters only. The entire shore is open to birding.
In Eddy County:
SW at the home of TJH on August 14 had a male ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD at the
feeder. He is trying to photograph it.
JO on August 2 had six UPLAND SANDPIPERS in mowed hayfields north of
Loving. Brantley Lake has good shorebird habitat.
SW has found CAVE SWALLOWS under four culverts south of Whites City and
one on the south edge of Carlsbad.
SW reports there are ELF OWLS in the Guadalupe Mts. at Dark Canyon, Rocky
Arroyo, and Last Chance Canyon.
In Lea County:
A report came from PM that on July 1 there was a KISKADEE in his yard in
Eunice. Call him at 394-2600. JO had it on August 1 with an immature eastern
type BRONZED COWBIRD. PM reports it still there on August 7, and WW saw it
on August 11.
In Jal on August 1 JO had another immature eastern BRONZED COWBIRD in the
eastern sector and an immature male RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD at feeders at
1012 Oak Street. WW did not see the hummer on August 11.
Initials Used:
JA, Jan Arrott; JB, Jonathan Batkin; MB, Matt Baumann; TB, Terry Brownell;
CB, Celestyn Brozek; RC, Robert Cates; DC, David Cleary; DvC; Davra
Clayton; MC, Mike Coltrin; NC, Nancy Cox; JDM, Joan Day-Martin; LD, Lyn
Dominguez; GF, Gary Froehlich; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C.J. Grimes; TG,
Turtle-Bear Guillermo; JH, Joan Hardie; MH, Michael Hilchey; TJH, Tom Hines; JJ,
Jim
Joseph; KK, Keith Kamper; SK, Scott Kennedy; PK, Paul Kinslow; DK, David
Krueper; LL, Lane Leckman; EL, Gene Lewis; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry
Malone; PM, Pat McCasland; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; SO,
Steve O'Neill; JP, John Parmeter; NP, Nick Pederson; CR, Chris Rustay; JR,
Janet Ruth; MS, Marcy Scott; GS, Greg Smith; JSt, James Stuart; JT, John
Trochet; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk; GW, Gordon Warrick; EW. Eric Weisman; BW,
Bill West; SW, Steve West; ElW, Elton Williams, WW, Bill Wittman RY, Rob
Yaksich; JZ, Jimmy Zabriskie.
Field Trips:
Central Audubon in Albuquerque has Thursday field trips. For details call
Margaret Wallen at 341-0928. Check, as there may be a last minute change in
plans. August 18 they bird Embudo Canyon in the Sandias with Mary Lou Arthur,
and on August 25 Sulphur and La Cienega Canyons in the Sandias with Sally Burke.
September 1 is the Corrales Bosque with Beverly Silfer.
Due to africanized bees at the site, Joan Day-Martin's banding and
hummingbird events near Lake Roberts have been cancelled. Call Joan at 1-888-536-3866
for information.
On Saturday, August 20 Southwestern Audubon birds for high country near
Silver City. This trip has also been cancelled.
On Saturday, August 27 Sangre de Cristo goes to the Elk Mountain region north
of Pecos for fall migrants and highlands residents led by Gary and Karen
Schiltz at 757-2212.
Out of state, but Lubbock, Texas and the Llano Estacado Audubon is having on
August 27 the Annual Prairie Festival with field trips and many other events.
Contact is Ellen McBride at Erootsmcbride@aol.com.
- End transcript
* New Mexico Bird Report
* August 15, 2005
* NMEX0508.15
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Eared, Western and Clark's Grebes (Colfax)
Western Grebe (Catron)
BROWN PELICAN (Bernalillo)
American Bittern (Socorro)
Least Bittern (Chaves)
Great Egret (Colfax, San Miguel)
Snowy Egret (Valencia)
Cattle Egret (Colfax)
Green Heron (Sierra)
White-faced Ibis (Colfax)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK (Luna)
Snow and Bar-headed Goose (Socorro)
Mexican Mallard (Hidalgo)
Osprey (Catron, San Miguel)
WHITE-TAILED KITE (Hidalgo)
Harris's Hawk (Luna)
Gray Hawk (Hidalgo)
Zone-tailed Hawk (San Miguel, Sierra)
Peregrine Falcon (Colfax)
White-tailed Ptarmigan (Taos)
Chukar (Hidalgo)
Wild Turkey (Bernalillo)
Northern Bobwhite (Sandoval. Hidalgo)
Montezuma Quail (Catron)
Sora (Socorro)
Virginia Rail and Moorhen (Valencia)
Common Moorhen (Socorro, Chaves)
Black-bellied Plover (Sierra, Chaves)
Willet (Socorro)
Spotted Sandpiper (Cibola, Catron)
Upland Sandpiper (Eddy. Chaves)
Solitary Sandpiper (Bernalillo, Catron)
Marbled Godwit (Chaves)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Valencia, Chaves)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Socorro)
Stilt Sandpiper (Valencia)
Wilson's Phalarope (Catron)
LAUGHING Gull (Sierra)
Least Tern (Chaves)
Black Tern (Socorro. Bernalillo)
Common Ground-Dove (Hidalgo)
Western Screech-Owl (Bernalillo)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Catron, Grant)
Violet-crowned Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Magnificent Hummingbird (Grant, Catron)
Anna's Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Calliope Hummingbird (Doņa Ana, Cibola, Catron, Grant)
Calliope and Rufous Hummingbird (Catron)
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (Lea)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Doņa Ana)
Rufous Hummingbird (Catron)
ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD (Eddy)
Three-toed Woodpecker (Bernalillo)
Willow Flycatcher (Bernalillo)
Black Phoebe (Cibola)
Eastern Phoebe (San Miguel)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Socorro)
GREATER KISKADEE (Lea)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Cochise, Arizona by Hidalgo)
Gray Vireo (Socorro, Hidalgo)
Cave Swallow (Eddy)
American Dipper (Colfax)
Gray Catbird (Colfax)
Bendire's Thrasher (Hidalgo)
Phainopepla (Doņa Ana)
Olive and Townsend's Warblers (Grant)
Prothonotary Warbler (Colfax)
HERMIT WARBLER (Grant)
Red-faced Warbler (Hidalgo)
Painted Redstart (Catron)
Botteri's Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Lark Sparrow (Doņa Ana)
Timberline Brewer's Sparrow (Bernalillo)
Lark Bunting (Sierra, Sandoval, Catron)
Indigo Bunting (Sierra)
Varied Bunting (Hidalgo)
Painted Bunting (Chaves, Sierra)
Bronzed Cowbird (Lea)
Orchard Oriole (Chaves)
Red Crossbill (Cibola)
Pine Siskin (Luna)
American Goldfinch (Grant)
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hotline: New Mexico
Date: August 15, 2005
RBA phone number 505-884-3269.
compiler Patricia R. Snider
home phone number 505-884-1320.
e-mail address Pinyonjay@aol.com.
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for August 15, 2005,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Kiskadee,
Roseate Spoonbill, Prothonotary Warbler. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck.
Most places mentioned and a checklist of N.M. birds are in the N.M. Bird
Finding Guide. All N.M. phone numbers are area code 505. For past RBA's
check the NMOS web page at www.nmosbirds.org. For photos of rarities and
directions to NM birding sites check hometown.aol.com/borealowl.
For Bird Records Committee and both Field Notes send reports to Dr. Sartor O.
Williams, III, 1819 Meadowview NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104.
In Sandoval County:
SO on August 13 had 15 LARK BUNTINGS at the Bernalillo Watershed a half
mile on Forest Road 445 from the west parking lot.
TB on July 28 had an escaped BOBWHITE in Corrales on Loma Larga between
Angel Road and Villa de Paz.
In Taos County:
A team went up to the Santa Barbara Ridge and found two WHITE-TAILED
PTARMIGANS. It's a rigorous climb from 10,200 to 12,400 feet. Take NM 518 to
Angostura and then Forest Road 161 west to the trailhead parking lot. JP, JO,
and others made the climb on July 16 and found two more ptarmigans.
In San Miguel County:
EL had an EASTERN PHOEBE at Villanueva State Park August 4.\ LD had an
OSPREY at Middle Marsh on the Las Vegas Refuge on August 12. JA on July 28
had a GREAT EGRET at McAllister Lake near the Las Vegas Refuge. It then moved
to Browns Marsh on the refuge through August 3. BW found it back on
McAllister on August 10 with a ZONE-TAILED HAWK in the Gallinas River Canyon on the
Charles R Ranch just southeast of Las Vegas.
In Colfax County:
ElW on August 10 had a male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER (photos) at the Tolby
Campground east of Eagle Nest in the Cimarron Canyon State Park along the
stream. DC saw it there on August 10 and 13.
He also had several CATBIRDS and a DIPPER.
DC on Stubblefield Lake saw EARED, WESTERN and CLARK'S GREBES and
WHITE-FACED IBIS with young. On August 8 there was also two COMMON LOONS, single
GREAT and CATTLE EGRETS, and a PEREGRINE.
In Cibola County:
CJG at El Morro Monument this week reported a CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD. On
August 9 he saw their first ever BLACK PHOEBE with two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS on
August 8, both at the sewage ponds. At the Malpais Monument center are still
quite a few RED CROSSBILLS.
JT found several phases of RED CROSSBILLS in the Zuni Mountains.
In Bernalillo County:
JP on August 14 had a BLACK TERN at the parking lot ponds at the Rio
Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque. He found the pond area at Tramway and Fourth
was full, with only a SOLITARY SANDPIPER.
A surprise for DvC while driving east of Albuquerque in Tijeras Canyon
was a BROWN PELICAN flying over I-40 headed northeast on August 8. Will it make
it to a lake?
NC says they began banding at the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque
on August 7 and banded a WILLOW FLYCATCHER and a TIMBERLINE BREWER'S SPARROW.
MC on August 1 saw about ten TURKEYS on the Ellis Trail near its junction
with the Osha Loop Trail in the Sandia Mountains.
CR on Sandia Crest on the trail to the Kiwanis Meadows from the lower
parking lot found two THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS. On July 22 PK found them below the
Kiwanis Cabin and TG saw two on the upper trail.
MH on August 4 found a dead (and a live} MOORHEN and a dead VIRGINIA RAIL
with other critters at the Isleta Marsh, possibly road-kills.
RY reports the WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS haven't been seen at the Nature
Center this summer.
In Valencia County:
At the Taco Bell marsh in Belen MH on August 4 had a STILT SANDPIPER and
a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. EL on August 6 saw 54 SNOWY EGRETS and two Stilt
Sandpipers.
In Socorro County:
On August 1 on Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio CL saw a male
VERMILION FLYCATCHER near Audio Stop 7 and two SNOW GEESE still present. MH on
August 4 saw two SORAS and two PECTORAL SANDPIPERS south of the Marsh Deck. GF on
August 7 had 12 BLACK TERNS at the east side of the Marsh Loop and an
AMERICAN BITTERN in the heronry at the east end of the middle road, while BW and JNM
on August 8 had one willet and a juvenile MOORHEN at the southeast corner of
the Marsh Loop. MS and JZ found the escaped BAR-HEADED GOOSE still present on
August 6.
On NM 60 west of Socorro at mile post 131.5 is a dirt road goes south
(left) into The Box cliffs. It then continues past the restroom and up into the
pinyons. JJ saw a GRAY VIREO there on July 31.
In Chaves County:
WW and GW on July 20 had a ROSEATE SPOONBILL at Bitter Lake Refuge on
Unit 15. GW had a LEAST BITTERN on the south half of Unit 15. GW found a
MOORHEN on Unit 15 on August 3. JO and LL on August 5 located the spoonbill at the
Oxbow and later on 15. At headquarters JP reported a male PAINTED BUNTING and
a male ORCHARD ORIOLE. On August 13 JP and WW found the spoonbill in the
same two places with a MARBLED GODWIT, a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and heard a
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and three UPLAND SANDPIPERS. There were five LEAST TERNS.
RC saw the spoonbill on August 12.
In Sierra County:
JO and RV on August 6 had a first winter LAUGHING GULL and a breeding
plumage BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER at North Monticello Point of Elephant Butte Lake.
On August 6 EW reported a GREEN HERON and a PAINTED BUNTING at Paseo del Rio
park below the dam.
JNM and BW on August 6 at the Ladder Ranch at the end of Animas Canyon
near Caballo Lake had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK, an INDIGO BUNTING, and many LARK
BUNTINGS.
In Catron County:
JH at Quemado Lake on August 9 had a WESTERN GREBE, a SOLITARY SANDPIPER,
and a WILSON'S PHALAROPE.
On August 4 at their ranch east of Datil there was two LARK BUNTINGS and
a SPOTTED SANDPIPER. At her feeders there about 60 RUFOUS and 12 CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRDS.
CL saw a MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRD at the antique shop feeder in Mogollon
on August 11 with two MONTEZUMA QUAILS with young on August 10 a half mile east
of Mogollon. At Snow Lake to the east there was an OSPREY and two CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRDS not at a feeder on August 11. On August 10 he had a PYGMY OWL
at the Gilita Campground at the lake.
CL had one or two PAINTED REDSTARTS along the river at Pleasanton August 12.
In Grant County:
At the home of JDM near Lake Roberts CL saw three MAGNIFICENT
HUMMINGBIRDS and 15 to 20 CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRDS on August 9. An AMERICAN GOLDFINCH
was at
the Grey Feathers Lodge on August 10.
On August 10 CL at Signal Peak in the mountains north of Pinos Altos saw
one or two more male MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRDS. On the road up to the peak
there was one or two HERMIT WARBLERS, over 50 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, two OLIVE
WARBLERS, and with CB a PYGMY OWL.
In Hidalgo County:
On the Gray Ranch (now the Diamond A Ranch) a quarter mile south of the
intersection of the road to Clanton Canyon and County 1 DK and JR saw two
WHITE-TAILED KITES. STAY ON THE ROAD ON THE RANCH. WW saw one kite on July 22
perched
in a line of trees on the west side of 1 about 150 yards from the road. CL
sighted two on July 30 and JB, MB, and NP saw one two miles south of that
junction on August 8.
JSt found two more kites at a second location off hwy. 1 about 14 miles south
of Animas on the east side of the road towards the XT Ranch on August 4.
This area is still off limits from the road. On August 6 JNM and BW had one kite
west of the road at mile marker 28 another hunting between markers 30 and 31.
BW and JNM also had two BOTTERI'S SPARROWS south of marker 13, a BENDIRE'S
THRASHER about three miles south of Animas, and two COMMON GROUND-DOVES at
marker 29 on the road's edge.
In Clanton Canyon at the campground CL had on July 30 an ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD
immature male. While hiking the canyon trail just east of the Turkey Seep and
a half mile north to Wittmore Canyon he found a RED-FACED WARBLER.
On August 7 in the New Mexico part of Guadalupe Canyon BW and JNM
reported a serious flash flood had recently passed through. They had many VARIED
BUNTINGS, six to eight VIOLET-CROWNED HUMMINGBIRDS, two GRAY HAWKS near the
ranch, three GRAY VIREOS north of the road before the orchard, and a calling
BOBWHITE. JB and CL found it is a pet at the ranch with a Chukar and two Mexican
Mallards. JB, MB, and NP had the Gray Hawks on August 9.
In Cochise County, Arizona:
Along Stateline Road near the junction with Portal Road on August 9 KK
and SK reported a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER, apparently on the Arizona side.
In Luna County:
LM at 10:40 on August 15 had a BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK in Deming at
the lake on the Pecan Trailer Park just east of town.
West of Deming and south on NM 418 JNM and BW on August 6 saw a HARRIS'S
HAWK just past mile marker 5 at Pearl Onion Road.
LM had a GREEN HERON on July 28 at the Pecan Park pond, while the PINE
SISKIN was still present at the Mountain View Cemetery.
In Doņa Ana County:
DG at his Las Cruces home had two returning LARK SPARROWS and a male
PHAINOPEPLA on July 29, a BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD male on August 3, and CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRDS from Jul 21 to 29.
MS reports that their feeders near Radium Springs have been busy with
about 150 hummingbirds. By August 14 there were still five to six CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRD present.
In Otero County:
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo CL reports that the 'no access'
signs are for hunters only. The entire shore is open to birding.
In Eddy County:
SW at the home of TJH on August 14 had a male ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD at the
feeder. He is trying to photograph it.
JO on August 2 had six UPLAND SANDPIPERS in mowed hayfields north of
Loving. Brantley Lake has good shorebird habitat.
SW has found CAVE SWALLOWS under four culverts south of Whites City and
one on the south edge of Carlsbad.
SW reports there are ELF OWLS in the Guadalupe Mts. at Dark Canyon, Rocky
Arroyo, and Last Chance Canyon.
In Lea County:
A report came from PM that on July 1 there was a KISKADEE in his yard in
Eunice. Call him at 394-2600. JO had it on August 1 with an immature eastern
type BRONZED COWBIRD. PM reports it still there on August 7, and WW saw it
on August 11.
In Jal on August 1 JO had another immature eastern BRONZED COWBIRD in the
eastern sector and an immature male RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD at feeders at
1012 Oak Street. WW did not see the hummer on August 11.
Initials Used:
JA, Jan Arrott; JB, Jonathan Batkin; MB, Matt Baumann; TB, Terry Brownell;
CB, Celestyn Brozek; RC, Robert Cates; DC, David Cleary; DvC; Davra
Clayton; MC, Mike Coltrin; NC, Nancy Cox; JDM, Joan Day-Martin; LD, Lyn
Dominguez; GF, Gary Froehlich; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C.J. Grimes; TG,
Turtle-Bear Guillermo; JH, Joan Hardie; MH, Michael Hilchey; TJH, Tom Hines; JJ,
Jim
Joseph; KK, Keith Kamper; SK, Scott Kennedy; PK, Paul Kinslow; DK, David
Krueper; LL, Lane Leckman; EL, Gene Lewis; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry
Malone; PM, Pat McCasland; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; SO,
Steve O'Neill; JP, John Parmeter; NP, Nick Pederson; CR, Chris Rustay; JR,
Janet Ruth; MS, Marcy Scott; GS, Greg Smith; JSt, James Stuart; JT, John
Trochet; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk; GW, Gordon Warrick; EW. Eric Weisman; BW,
Bill West; SW, Steve West; ElW, Elton Williams, WW, Bill Wittman RY, Rob
Yaksich; JZ, Jimmy Zabriskie.
Field Trips:
Central Audubon in Albuquerque has Thursday field trips. For details call
Margaret Wallen at 341-0928. Check, as there may be a last minute change in
plans. August 18 they bird Embudo Canyon in the Sandias with Mary Lou Arthur,
and on August 25 Sulphur and La Cienega Canyons in the Sandias with Sally Burke.
September 1 is the Corrales Bosque with Beverly Silfer.
Due to africanized bees at the site, Joan Day-Martin's banding and
hummingbird events near Lake Roberts have been cancelled. Call Joan at 1-888-536-3866
for information.
On Saturday, August 20 Southwestern Audubon birds for high country near
Silver City. This trip has also been cancelled.
On Saturday, August 27 Sangre de Cristo goes to the Elk Mountain region north
of Pecos for fall migrants and highlands residents led by Gary and Karen
Schiltz at 757-2212.
Out of state, but Lubbock, Texas and the Llano Estacado Audubon is having on
August 27 the Annual Prairie Festival with field trips and many other events.
Contact is Ellen McBride at Erootsmcbride@aol.com.
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