- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* August 21, 2005
* NMEX0508.21
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
BROWN PELICAN (new Bernalillo sighting)
American Bittern (Socorro)
Least Bittern (Chaves, Socorro)
Great Egret (San Miguel)
WHITE IBIS (Socorro)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK (Luna)
Snow and Bar-headed Goose (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, San Miguel)
WHITE-TAILED KITE (Hidalgo)
Gray and Zone-tailed Hawks (Hidalgo)
Montezuma Quail (Catron)
Virginia Rail and Moorhen (Valencia)
Sora (Socorro)
Common Moorhen (Socorro, Chaves)
Black-bellied Plover (Chaves, Luna)
Willet (Otero)
Upland Sandpiper (Eddy)
Marbled Godwit (Chaves)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Luna)
Wilson's Phalarope (Otero)
LAUGHING and California Gulls (Sierra)
Least Tern (Chaves)
Black Tern (Luna, Doņa Ana)
Common Ground-Dove (Hidalgo)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Catron, Grant)
Violet-crowned Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Bernalillo)
Magnificent Hummingbird (Grant, Catron)
Calliope Hummingbird (Doņa Ana, Catron, Grant)
Rufous Hummingbird (Catron)
Black Phoebe (Cibola)
GREATER KISKADEE (Lea)
Eastern Kingbird (Hidalgo)
Gray Vireo (Hidalgo)
American Dipper (Colfax, Catron)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo)
Gray Catbird (Colfax)
Olive and Townsend's Warblers (Grant)
Nashville Warbler (Hidalgo)
Black-throated Green Warbler (Bernalillo)
HERMIT WARBLER (Grant)
Red-faced Warbler (Hidalgo)
Hepatic Tanager (Cibola)
Botteri's Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Lark Bunting (Luna)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro)
Varied Bunting (Hidalgo)
Bronzed Cowbird (Lea)
Red Crossbill (Cibola)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: August 18, 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 21, 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, Laughing Gull, Hermit Warbler.
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 San Miguel County:
LD had an OSPREY at Middle Marsh on the Las Vegas Refuge on August 12.
BW found a GREAT EGRET on McAllister Lake August 10.
In Colfax County:
DC had several CATBIRDS and a DIPPER on August 13 at the Tolby Campground
east of Eagle Nest.
DC on August 8 at Stubblefield Lake had two COMMON LOONS.
In Cibola County:
CJG at the El Malpais Monument on August 17 saw on the Continental Divide
Trail migrant warblers, RED CROSSBILLS, and a HEPATIC TANAGER.
CJG at El Morro Monument on August 9 saw their first ever BLACK PHOEBE at
the sewage ponds.
In Bernalillo County:
LN had several EASTERN BLUEBIRDS at the Rio Grande Nature Center in
Albuquerque on August 20 in the south section by a bench near the Rio Grande.
JP and WW did not see the male BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD reported at a
feeder in Sandia Park on August 20. It was photographed.
GP reported an immature female BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER in the first
quarter mile of the Tree Springs Trail in the Sandia Mts. on August 17.
Added to the sighting of the BROWN PELICAN flying over Tijeras Canyon was
a report from DW and FL of one sighted on the pond on the road to Sandia
Crest at Sandia Park on August 10. Where did it go from there?
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.
In Socorro County:
CL on August 17 found the WHITE IBIS was still present on Bosque del
Apache Refuge near San Antonio at the pond on Hwy. 1 south of the Canyon
Trailhead. He had two MOORHENS on August 16 with three SORAS and two INDIGO BUNTINGS
on the 17th on the two-way road. GF on August 7 had an AMERICAN BITTERN in the
heronry at the east end of the middle road. MS and JZ found the escaped
BAR-HEADED GOOSE still present on August 6 with the two lingering SNOW GEESE. JO
and LL saw two LEAST BITTERNS on August 11.
In Chaves County:
WW and GW had a ROSEATE SPOONBILL at Bitter Lake Refuge on Unit 15. GW
had a LEAST BITTERN on the south half of Unit 15 and a MOORHEN on Unit 15 on
August 3. On August 13 JP and WW found the spoonbill in the Oxbow in the
morning and later on 15 with a MARBLED GODWIT and heard a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER.
There were five LEAST TERNS.
In Sierra County:
JO on August 15 at North Monticello Point of Elephant Butte Lake had a
LAUGHING and a CALIFORNIA GULL. JP reported the Laughing Gull on August 19.
In Catron County:
On August 4 at their ranch east of Datil JH reported at her feeders 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 QUAIL with young on August 10 a half mile east
of Mogollon. At Snow Lake to the east there was an OSPREY on August 11. On
August 10 he had a PYGMY OWL at the Gilita Campground at the lake.
BWi sighted a DIPPER in Whitewater Canyon at Glenwood on August 7 at the top
of the canyon.
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. She reports over 1000
hummers at her feeders, but there are also africanized bees.
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 were one or two HERMIT WARBLERS, over 50 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, two OLIVE
WARBLERS, and (with CB) a PYGMY OWL. JP found one HERMIT WARBLER on August 19.
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 perched in a line
of trees on the west side of 1 about 150 yards from the road. JO found one at
the Clanton Canyon turnoff on August 12 near mile post 29 and two a mile
south of the Gray Ranch Cienega near mile post 31.
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 and two COMMON
GROUND-DOVES at marker 29 on the road's edge.
In Clanton Canyon CL while hiking the canyon trail just east of the Turkey
Seep and a half mile north to Wittmore Canyon found a RED-FACED WARBLER. JO at
the CCC dam sign had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK and a NASHVILLE WARBLER.
On August 7 in the New Mexico part of Guadalupe Canyon BW and JNM had
many VARIED BUNTINGS, six to eight VIOLET-CROWNED HUMMINGBIRDS, two GRAY HAWKS
near the ranch, and three GRAY VIREOS north of the road before the orchard. JB,
MB, and NP had the Gray Hawks on August 9.
At Rodeo on August 12 JO saw an EASTERN KINGBIRD on Stateline Road south
of Gin Road.
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 on NM 377. JO found it
later in the day. RV did not find it on August 15.
JO at the Deming Sewage Ponds on August 15 found a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
and BLACK TERN.. LM had a PECTORAL SANDPIPER there on August 11.
LM says LARK BUNTINGS returned to the Deming area August 10.
In Doņa Ana County:
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.
JD on August 18 saw six BLACK TERNS in Las Cruces below the Hwy. 70
bridge. There was a good number of warblers at the Old Refuge (now the Mesilla
Bosque Park). Birds good, bugs bad.
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. On August 19
he found a WILLET and a thousand phalaropes, all apparently WILSON'S.
In Eddy County:
JO on August 2 had six UPLAND SANDPIPERS in mowed hayfields north of
Loving.
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 BRONZED
COWBIRD. PM reports the kiskadee still there on August 14.
Initials Used:
JB, Jonathan Batkin; MB, Matt Baumann; CB, Celestyn Brozek; DC, David
Cleary; JDM, Joan Day-Martin; LD, Lyn Dominguez; JD, John Douglas; GF, Gary
Froehlich; CJG, C.J. Grimes; JH, Joan Hardie; MH, Michael Hilchey; DK, David
Krueper; LL, Lane Leckman; FL, Fran Lusso; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry
Malone; PM, Pat McCasland; LN, Lannois Neely; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JO,
Jerry Oldenettel; GP, Gary Parker; JP, John Parmeter; NP, Nick Pederson; JR,
Janet Ruth; MS, Marcy Scott; JSt, James Stuart; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk;
GW, Gordon Warrick; DW, David Weaver; BW, Bill West; SW, Steve West; BWi,
Bob Wilcox; WW, Bill Wittman 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. On August 25 they check 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 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.
On August 27 Mesilla Valley Audubon will go to the Holloman Lakes. Contact
is Nancy Stotz at 521-8087.
The weekend of August 27-28 Bitter Lake Refuge will have a Dragonfly Festival
with guided tours. Reservations are required for the tours at 625-4011.
- End transcript
* New Mexico Bird Report
* August 21, 2005
* NMEX0508.21
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
BROWN PELICAN (new Bernalillo sighting)
American Bittern (Socorro)
Least Bittern (Chaves, Socorro)
Great Egret (San Miguel)
WHITE IBIS (Socorro)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK (Luna)
Snow and Bar-headed Goose (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, San Miguel)
WHITE-TAILED KITE (Hidalgo)
Gray and Zone-tailed Hawks (Hidalgo)
Montezuma Quail (Catron)
Virginia Rail and Moorhen (Valencia)
Sora (Socorro)
Common Moorhen (Socorro, Chaves)
Black-bellied Plover (Chaves, Luna)
Willet (Otero)
Upland Sandpiper (Eddy)
Marbled Godwit (Chaves)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Luna)
Wilson's Phalarope (Otero)
LAUGHING and California Gulls (Sierra)
Least Tern (Chaves)
Black Tern (Luna, Doņa Ana)
Common Ground-Dove (Hidalgo)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Catron, Grant)
Violet-crowned Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Bernalillo)
Magnificent Hummingbird (Grant, Catron)
Calliope Hummingbird (Doņa Ana, Catron, Grant)
Rufous Hummingbird (Catron)
Black Phoebe (Cibola)
GREATER KISKADEE (Lea)
Eastern Kingbird (Hidalgo)
Gray Vireo (Hidalgo)
American Dipper (Colfax, Catron)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo)
Gray Catbird (Colfax)
Olive and Townsend's Warblers (Grant)
Nashville Warbler (Hidalgo)
Black-throated Green Warbler (Bernalillo)
HERMIT WARBLER (Grant)
Red-faced Warbler (Hidalgo)
Hepatic Tanager (Cibola)
Botteri's Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Lark Bunting (Luna)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro)
Varied Bunting (Hidalgo)
Bronzed Cowbird (Lea)
Red Crossbill (Cibola)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: August 18, 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 21, 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, Laughing Gull, Hermit Warbler.
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 San Miguel County:
LD had an OSPREY at Middle Marsh on the Las Vegas Refuge on August 12.
BW found a GREAT EGRET on McAllister Lake August 10.
In Colfax County:
DC had several CATBIRDS and a DIPPER on August 13 at the Tolby Campground
east of Eagle Nest.
DC on August 8 at Stubblefield Lake had two COMMON LOONS.
In Cibola County:
CJG at the El Malpais Monument on August 17 saw on the Continental Divide
Trail migrant warblers, RED CROSSBILLS, and a HEPATIC TANAGER.
CJG at El Morro Monument on August 9 saw their first ever BLACK PHOEBE at
the sewage ponds.
In Bernalillo County:
LN had several EASTERN BLUEBIRDS at the Rio Grande Nature Center in
Albuquerque on August 20 in the south section by a bench near the Rio Grande.
JP and WW did not see the male BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD reported at a
feeder in Sandia Park on August 20. It was photographed.
GP reported an immature female BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER in the first
quarter mile of the Tree Springs Trail in the Sandia Mts. on August 17.
Added to the sighting of the BROWN PELICAN flying over Tijeras Canyon was
a report from DW and FL of one sighted on the pond on the road to Sandia
Crest at Sandia Park on August 10. Where did it go from there?
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.
In Socorro County:
CL on August 17 found the WHITE IBIS was still present on Bosque del
Apache Refuge near San Antonio at the pond on Hwy. 1 south of the Canyon
Trailhead. He had two MOORHENS on August 16 with three SORAS and two INDIGO BUNTINGS
on the 17th on the two-way road. GF on August 7 had an AMERICAN BITTERN in the
heronry at the east end of the middle road. MS and JZ found the escaped
BAR-HEADED GOOSE still present on August 6 with the two lingering SNOW GEESE. JO
and LL saw two LEAST BITTERNS on August 11.
In Chaves County:
WW and GW had a ROSEATE SPOONBILL at Bitter Lake Refuge on Unit 15. GW
had a LEAST BITTERN on the south half of Unit 15 and a MOORHEN on Unit 15 on
August 3. On August 13 JP and WW found the spoonbill in the Oxbow in the
morning and later on 15 with a MARBLED GODWIT and heard a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER.
There were five LEAST TERNS.
In Sierra County:
JO on August 15 at North Monticello Point of Elephant Butte Lake had a
LAUGHING and a CALIFORNIA GULL. JP reported the Laughing Gull on August 19.
In Catron County:
On August 4 at their ranch east of Datil JH reported at her feeders 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 QUAIL with young on August 10 a half mile east
of Mogollon. At Snow Lake to the east there was an OSPREY on August 11. On
August 10 he had a PYGMY OWL at the Gilita Campground at the lake.
BWi sighted a DIPPER in Whitewater Canyon at Glenwood on August 7 at the top
of the canyon.
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. She reports over 1000
hummers at her feeders, but there are also africanized bees.
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 were one or two HERMIT WARBLERS, over 50 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, two OLIVE
WARBLERS, and (with CB) a PYGMY OWL. JP found one HERMIT WARBLER on August 19.
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 perched in a line
of trees on the west side of 1 about 150 yards from the road. JO found one at
the Clanton Canyon turnoff on August 12 near mile post 29 and two a mile
south of the Gray Ranch Cienega near mile post 31.
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 and two COMMON
GROUND-DOVES at marker 29 on the road's edge.
In Clanton Canyon CL while hiking the canyon trail just east of the Turkey
Seep and a half mile north to Wittmore Canyon found a RED-FACED WARBLER. JO at
the CCC dam sign had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK and a NASHVILLE WARBLER.
On August 7 in the New Mexico part of Guadalupe Canyon BW and JNM had
many VARIED BUNTINGS, six to eight VIOLET-CROWNED HUMMINGBIRDS, two GRAY HAWKS
near the ranch, and three GRAY VIREOS north of the road before the orchard. JB,
MB, and NP had the Gray Hawks on August 9.
At Rodeo on August 12 JO saw an EASTERN KINGBIRD on Stateline Road south
of Gin Road.
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 on NM 377. JO found it
later in the day. RV did not find it on August 15.
JO at the Deming Sewage Ponds on August 15 found a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
and BLACK TERN.. LM had a PECTORAL SANDPIPER there on August 11.
LM says LARK BUNTINGS returned to the Deming area August 10.
In Doņa Ana County:
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.
JD on August 18 saw six BLACK TERNS in Las Cruces below the Hwy. 70
bridge. There was a good number of warblers at the Old Refuge (now the Mesilla
Bosque Park). Birds good, bugs bad.
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. On August 19
he found a WILLET and a thousand phalaropes, all apparently WILSON'S.
In Eddy County:
JO on August 2 had six UPLAND SANDPIPERS in mowed hayfields north of
Loving.
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 BRONZED
COWBIRD. PM reports the kiskadee still there on August 14.
Initials Used:
JB, Jonathan Batkin; MB, Matt Baumann; CB, Celestyn Brozek; DC, David
Cleary; JDM, Joan Day-Martin; LD, Lyn Dominguez; JD, John Douglas; GF, Gary
Froehlich; CJG, C.J. Grimes; JH, Joan Hardie; MH, Michael Hilchey; DK, David
Krueper; LL, Lane Leckman; FL, Fran Lusso; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry
Malone; PM, Pat McCasland; LN, Lannois Neely; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JO,
Jerry Oldenettel; GP, Gary Parker; JP, John Parmeter; NP, Nick Pederson; JR,
Janet Ruth; MS, Marcy Scott; JSt, James Stuart; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk;
GW, Gordon Warrick; DW, David Weaver; BW, Bill West; SW, Steve West; BWi,
Bob Wilcox; WW, Bill Wittman 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. On August 25 they check 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 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.
On August 27 Mesilla Valley Audubon will go to the Holloman Lakes. Contact
is Nancy Stotz at 521-8087.
The weekend of August 27-28 Bitter Lake Refuge will have a Dragonfly Festival
with guided tours. Reservations are required for the tours at 625-4011.
- End transcript