- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* March 30, 2006
* NMEX0603.30
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon and Horned Grebe (Colfax, Quay)
Western Grebe (Socorro)
American White Pelican (Socorro, Colfax)
Cattls and Snowy Egrets (Valencia)
White-faced Ibis (Valencia)
Tundra Swan (Socorro, Colfax, Valencia)
Osprey (Dona Ana)
Peregrine Falcon (Dona Ana)
Swainson’s Hawk (Socorro)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Dona Ana)
Northern Bobwhite (Quqy)
Snowy Plover (Quay)
Black-necked Stilt (Valencia)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Socorro)
Long-billed Curlew (Sierra, Socorro)
Wilson’s Phalarope (Grant)
Franklin’s Gull (Socorro)
Barn and Long-eared Owls (Colfax)
Burrowing Owl (Valencia)
Northern Saw-whet Owl (Bernalillo)
Common Ground-Dove (Dona Ana)
Common Poorwill (Dona Ana, Hidakgo)
Black-chinned Hummingbird (Grant, Dona Ana)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Luna, Grant)
Rufous Hummingbird (Dona Ana)
Eastern Phoebe (Socorro)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Luna)
Ash-throated Flycatcher (sierra)
Pinyon Jay (Cibola)
Cactus Wren (Bernalillo)
House Wren (Dona Ana)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo)
Sage Thrasher (Grant)
Curve-billed Thrasher (San Juan)
Sprague’s Pipit (Socorro)
Yellow Warbler (Sierra)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dona Ana)
Painted Redstart (Hidalgo)
Lark Bunting (Socorro, Dona Ana)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Socorro)
Fox Sparrow (Bernalillo)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro, Dona Ana)
YELLOW GROSBEAK (Bernalillo)
RUSTY BLACKBIRD (Quay)
Rosy Finches three species (Bernalillo)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: March 30, 2006
RBA phone number 505-884-3269
compiler Patricia R. Snider
home phone number 505-884-1320
e-mail address _pinyonjay@aol.com_ (mailto:pinyonjay@aol.com)
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for March 30, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Yellow
Grosbeak, Rusty Blackbird.
There have been very few reports of Cassin's Finches, Red Crossbills,
Evening Grosbeaks, Clark's Nutcrackers, and Pine Grosbeaks.
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_ (http://www.nmosbirds.org) . For
photos of rarities and directions to birding sites check
hometown.aol.com/borealowl.
For the Bird Records Committee and both Field Notes send reports to Dr.
Sartor O. Williams, III, 1819 Meadowview NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 or to
_sunbittern@earthlink.net_ (mailto:sunbittern@earthlink.net) .
In San Juan County:
JJR on March 27 reported a first for the county, a CURVE-BILLED THRASTHER at
the home of WSM in Aztec. The only contact given was _jress@acrnet.com_
(mailto:jress@acrnet.com) .
In Colfax County:
DC saw 15 WHITE PELICANS on Lake 12 on the Maxwell Refuge March 24 with a
HORNED GREBE on Lake 14 with the two TUNDRA SWANS.
At the Maxwell Refuge on A5 just north of the juncion with A1 on March 17
there were six LONG-EARED OWLS and a BARN OWL.
In Quay County:
DC on March 25 at Ute Lake saw six COMMON LOONS (four in breeding plumage),
threer HORNED GREBES, a SNOWY PLOVER, 12 BOBWHITES, and at least one
vovalizing RUSTY BLACKBIRD.
In Cibola County:
BN and CR on March 5 saw many PINYON JAYS in the western Zuni Mts. from the
El Malpais NM to Bluewater Canyon.
In Bernalillo County:
The YELLOW GROSBEAK at 1412 Las Lomas NE in Albuquerque near the UNM campus.
The street is off of University, one stoplight south of Lomas, and two
stoplights north of Central. (There are two Lomas Streets). Turn west on Las
Lomas, it is in the backyard feeders. Many have viewed it through March 26
when JP heard it singing for the first time. A sign it is soon to leave? No
further reports have been received.
BV had two CACTUS WRENS in Embudo Canyon on the west side of the Sandias on
March 19 about a half mile west of the water tank in chollas.
DD on March 15 reported a SAW-WHET OWL has been around his home for several
weeks south of Tijeras on NM 337 two miles from the Ponderosa Bar. Call at
281-5797. It was heard by JW on March 20.
At the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque NC says they banded an
EASTERN BLUEBIRD and the red FOX SPARROW on March 18. BV on March 26 again saw the
red FOX SPARROW at the green feeder near the entrance
At the Crest House feeders on Sandia Crest SNC say the ROSY FINCHES, mostly
BLACKS, were still present on March 25. The banding team by March 25 have
banded a total this winter of 298, including 221 Blacks, 44 BROWN-CAPPED and 33
GRAY-CROWNED. Five of the Hepburn's race have been banded. They may be
leaving soon, and numbers have declined.
In Valencia county;
At the marsh behind the Taco Bell in Belen WW on March 20 had a CATTLE EGRET
and 38 BLACK-NECKED STILTS. BN and CR had a SNOWY EGRET and a WHITE-FACED
IBIS on March 19. JP amd JO found the snowy egret, many stilts, and a
BURROWING OWL on March 25. And on March 28 KSo saw 17 stilts and a TUNDRA SWAN,
with the owl in the field across from the Taco Bell across the highway.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio SM on March 20 on the Boardwalk
had a WESTERN GREBE. JP and JO had ten pelicans at the Norton Blind and the
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the visitor center. CCBr had 70 pelicans flying
over on March 26 with a SWAINSON’S HAWK. CP saw 26 pelicans at the blind on
March 26.
JP and JO on March 25 took Otero Road east from the main street (California)
in Socorro east to where the pavement ends at the Low Flow Channel. Turning
south on a dirt road they found two TUNDRA SWANS, and five FRANKLIN’S GULLS,
and a SWAINSON’S HAWK. JO saw five of the hawks on March 26.
In the area of A127 north of US 380 16 miles east of San Antonio on March 25
JO and JP found a SPRAGUE’S PIPIT still present near the cattle guard at the
left fork. Also seen were a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and 30 LARK BUNTINGS.
On the Farm-to-Market road just off 380 east of San Antonio in a flooded
field JO and JP saw twO LONG-BILLED CURLEWS and two LESSER YELLOWLEGS. KSo
found 76 curlews snd eight Franklin’s Gulls on March 28.
Jhi on March 26 at the golf course on the NMTU campus in Socorro north of
the Turtle Bay ponds.
In Sierra County:
CL on March 19 saw 43 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS just south of the Arrey Dairy.
At Percha Dam State Park JP and WW had a singing YELLOW WARBLER on March 18.
At Riverside Park below Caballo Dam on March 18 they found the ASH-THROATED
FLYCATCHER was still present.
In Grant County:
PT on March 20 at her Silver City home had a BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD with
a BROAD-TAILED on March 20-21 ‘dancing’.
JM on March 23 had two WILSON’S PHALAROPES at the Tyrone Sewage Ponds.
RS had about 20 SAGE THRASHERS in Carlisle Canyon (about aight miles east of
Duncan, AZ on March 23.
In Hidalgo County:
JN on March 25 had calling POORWILLS and a PAINTED REDSTART IN clanton
Canyon.
NMC reminds that County Hwy. 1 south of Animas crosses the Diamond A (Gray)
Ranch. Because of events with thoughtless birders, one must not go off the
road.
In Luna County:
On March 18 CL had a BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD and a VERMILION FLYCATCHER in
Pecan Park in Deming.
LM advises that the waste treatment ponds there will be closed for up to a
year for construction.
In Dona Ana County:
In Mesilla Park on March 29 had 85 TURKEY VULTURES flying over. He had had
up to ten MYRTLE WARBLERS on March 28-29.
JN on March 13 had a COMMON GROUND-DOVE along the arroyo that crosses
Univerity Ave. about a quarter mile north of its intersection with Avenida de
Mesilla. CL saw it March 15.
At the Old Refuge (Mesilla Valley Bosque Park) south of Mesilla JDo saw the
ZONE-TAILED HAWK on March 16. On March 15 CL had a SWAMP SPARROW. CCBr
reported a PERRGRIND FALLCON on March 15 and on March 28. KS on March 22
reported an OSPREY flying over and CCBr had one on March 29. KS saw LARK BUNTINGS
and a HOUSE WREN.
CCBr had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW singing in their yard on March 29.
JZ ans MS had a female RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD at their home near Radium Springs
on March 16. On March 25 there was a Rufous male and a BLACK-CHINNED present
and calling POORWILLS were heard.
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.
INITIALS USED:
CCBr. Charles and Chandra Britt; DC, David Cleary; SNC, Steve and Nancy
Cox; DD, David Dain; JDo, John Douglas; Jhi, John Hirth; CL, Carl Lundblad;
LM, Larry Malone; WSM. Warren and Shirley McNall; SM, Sonja Mendoza;
NMC, Narca Moore-Craig; JN, Josh Nemeth; BN, Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry
Oldenettel; JP, John Parmeter; CP, Cathy Pasterczyk; JJR, John and Jan Rees; CR,
Chris Rustay; MS, Marcy Scott; RS, Robert Shantz; Kso, Krista Sorra;
KS, Ken Stinnett; PT. Patricia Taber; BV, Brad Vaughn; WW, Bill Wittman;
JW, Jimmy Woodard; 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.
The banding team plans one more trip up to Sandia Crest for Rosy Finches on
Sunday, April 2. They hope to reach a total of 300 banded for the winter.
The Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe has nature walks on the grounds
every Saturday at 8:30 a.m. For details call them at 983-4609.
Prcha Dam State Park will have nature walks through March at 2 p.m. on
Saturdays and 10 a.m. on Sundays by Paul Yoder. Contact him at 743-3942. There
will also be walks by appointment and a posted board with notes on birds seen in
the area to Elephant Butte Lake.
- End transcript.
* New Mexico Bird Report
* March 30, 2006
* NMEX0603.30
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon and Horned Grebe (Colfax, Quay)
Western Grebe (Socorro)
American White Pelican (Socorro, Colfax)
Cattls and Snowy Egrets (Valencia)
White-faced Ibis (Valencia)
Tundra Swan (Socorro, Colfax, Valencia)
Osprey (Dona Ana)
Peregrine Falcon (Dona Ana)
Swainson’s Hawk (Socorro)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Dona Ana)
Northern Bobwhite (Quqy)
Snowy Plover (Quay)
Black-necked Stilt (Valencia)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Socorro)
Long-billed Curlew (Sierra, Socorro)
Wilson’s Phalarope (Grant)
Franklin’s Gull (Socorro)
Barn and Long-eared Owls (Colfax)
Burrowing Owl (Valencia)
Northern Saw-whet Owl (Bernalillo)
Common Ground-Dove (Dona Ana)
Common Poorwill (Dona Ana, Hidakgo)
Black-chinned Hummingbird (Grant, Dona Ana)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Luna, Grant)
Rufous Hummingbird (Dona Ana)
Eastern Phoebe (Socorro)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Luna)
Ash-throated Flycatcher (sierra)
Pinyon Jay (Cibola)
Cactus Wren (Bernalillo)
House Wren (Dona Ana)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo)
Sage Thrasher (Grant)
Curve-billed Thrasher (San Juan)
Sprague’s Pipit (Socorro)
Yellow Warbler (Sierra)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dona Ana)
Painted Redstart (Hidalgo)
Lark Bunting (Socorro, Dona Ana)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Socorro)
Fox Sparrow (Bernalillo)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro, Dona Ana)
YELLOW GROSBEAK (Bernalillo)
RUSTY BLACKBIRD (Quay)
Rosy Finches three species (Bernalillo)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: March 30, 2006
RBA phone number 505-884-3269
compiler Patricia R. Snider
home phone number 505-884-1320
e-mail address _pinyonjay@aol.com_ (mailto:pinyonjay@aol.com)
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for March 30, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Yellow
Grosbeak, Rusty Blackbird.
There have been very few reports of Cassin's Finches, Red Crossbills,
Evening Grosbeaks, Clark's Nutcrackers, and Pine Grosbeaks.
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_ (http://www.nmosbirds.org) . For
photos of rarities and directions to birding sites check
hometown.aol.com/borealowl.
For the Bird Records Committee and both Field Notes send reports to Dr.
Sartor O. Williams, III, 1819 Meadowview NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 or to
_sunbittern@earthlink.net_ (mailto:sunbittern@earthlink.net) .
In San Juan County:
JJR on March 27 reported a first for the county, a CURVE-BILLED THRASTHER at
the home of WSM in Aztec. The only contact given was _jress@acrnet.com_
(mailto:jress@acrnet.com) .
In Colfax County:
DC saw 15 WHITE PELICANS on Lake 12 on the Maxwell Refuge March 24 with a
HORNED GREBE on Lake 14 with the two TUNDRA SWANS.
At the Maxwell Refuge on A5 just north of the juncion with A1 on March 17
there were six LONG-EARED OWLS and a BARN OWL.
In Quay County:
DC on March 25 at Ute Lake saw six COMMON LOONS (four in breeding plumage),
threer HORNED GREBES, a SNOWY PLOVER, 12 BOBWHITES, and at least one
vovalizing RUSTY BLACKBIRD.
In Cibola County:
BN and CR on March 5 saw many PINYON JAYS in the western Zuni Mts. from the
El Malpais NM to Bluewater Canyon.
In Bernalillo County:
The YELLOW GROSBEAK at 1412 Las Lomas NE in Albuquerque near the UNM campus.
The street is off of University, one stoplight south of Lomas, and two
stoplights north of Central. (There are two Lomas Streets). Turn west on Las
Lomas, it is in the backyard feeders. Many have viewed it through March 26
when JP heard it singing for the first time. A sign it is soon to leave? No
further reports have been received.
BV had two CACTUS WRENS in Embudo Canyon on the west side of the Sandias on
March 19 about a half mile west of the water tank in chollas.
DD on March 15 reported a SAW-WHET OWL has been around his home for several
weeks south of Tijeras on NM 337 two miles from the Ponderosa Bar. Call at
281-5797. It was heard by JW on March 20.
At the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque NC says they banded an
EASTERN BLUEBIRD and the red FOX SPARROW on March 18. BV on March 26 again saw the
red FOX SPARROW at the green feeder near the entrance
At the Crest House feeders on Sandia Crest SNC say the ROSY FINCHES, mostly
BLACKS, were still present on March 25. The banding team by March 25 have
banded a total this winter of 298, including 221 Blacks, 44 BROWN-CAPPED and 33
GRAY-CROWNED. Five of the Hepburn's race have been banded. They may be
leaving soon, and numbers have declined.
In Valencia county;
At the marsh behind the Taco Bell in Belen WW on March 20 had a CATTLE EGRET
and 38 BLACK-NECKED STILTS. BN and CR had a SNOWY EGRET and a WHITE-FACED
IBIS on March 19. JP amd JO found the snowy egret, many stilts, and a
BURROWING OWL on March 25. And on March 28 KSo saw 17 stilts and a TUNDRA SWAN,
with the owl in the field across from the Taco Bell across the highway.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio SM on March 20 on the Boardwalk
had a WESTERN GREBE. JP and JO had ten pelicans at the Norton Blind and the
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the visitor center. CCBr had 70 pelicans flying
over on March 26 with a SWAINSON’S HAWK. CP saw 26 pelicans at the blind on
March 26.
JP and JO on March 25 took Otero Road east from the main street (California)
in Socorro east to where the pavement ends at the Low Flow Channel. Turning
south on a dirt road they found two TUNDRA SWANS, and five FRANKLIN’S GULLS,
and a SWAINSON’S HAWK. JO saw five of the hawks on March 26.
In the area of A127 north of US 380 16 miles east of San Antonio on March 25
JO and JP found a SPRAGUE’S PIPIT still present near the cattle guard at the
left fork. Also seen were a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and 30 LARK BUNTINGS.
On the Farm-to-Market road just off 380 east of San Antonio in a flooded
field JO and JP saw twO LONG-BILLED CURLEWS and two LESSER YELLOWLEGS. KSo
found 76 curlews snd eight Franklin’s Gulls on March 28.
Jhi on March 26 at the golf course on the NMTU campus in Socorro north of
the Turtle Bay ponds.
In Sierra County:
CL on March 19 saw 43 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS just south of the Arrey Dairy.
At Percha Dam State Park JP and WW had a singing YELLOW WARBLER on March 18.
At Riverside Park below Caballo Dam on March 18 they found the ASH-THROATED
FLYCATCHER was still present.
In Grant County:
PT on March 20 at her Silver City home had a BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD with
a BROAD-TAILED on March 20-21 ‘dancing’.
JM on March 23 had two WILSON’S PHALAROPES at the Tyrone Sewage Ponds.
RS had about 20 SAGE THRASHERS in Carlisle Canyon (about aight miles east of
Duncan, AZ on March 23.
In Hidalgo County:
JN on March 25 had calling POORWILLS and a PAINTED REDSTART IN clanton
Canyon.
NMC reminds that County Hwy. 1 south of Animas crosses the Diamond A (Gray)
Ranch. Because of events with thoughtless birders, one must not go off the
road.
In Luna County:
On March 18 CL had a BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD and a VERMILION FLYCATCHER in
Pecan Park in Deming.
LM advises that the waste treatment ponds there will be closed for up to a
year for construction.
In Dona Ana County:
In Mesilla Park on March 29 had 85 TURKEY VULTURES flying over. He had had
up to ten MYRTLE WARBLERS on March 28-29.
JN on March 13 had a COMMON GROUND-DOVE along the arroyo that crosses
Univerity Ave. about a quarter mile north of its intersection with Avenida de
Mesilla. CL saw it March 15.
At the Old Refuge (Mesilla Valley Bosque Park) south of Mesilla JDo saw the
ZONE-TAILED HAWK on March 16. On March 15 CL had a SWAMP SPARROW. CCBr
reported a PERRGRIND FALLCON on March 15 and on March 28. KS on March 22
reported an OSPREY flying over and CCBr had one on March 29. KS saw LARK BUNTINGS
and a HOUSE WREN.
CCBr had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW singing in their yard on March 29.
JZ ans MS had a female RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD at their home near Radium Springs
on March 16. On March 25 there was a Rufous male and a BLACK-CHINNED present
and calling POORWILLS were heard.
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.
INITIALS USED:
CCBr. Charles and Chandra Britt; DC, David Cleary; SNC, Steve and Nancy
Cox; DD, David Dain; JDo, John Douglas; Jhi, John Hirth; CL, Carl Lundblad;
LM, Larry Malone; WSM. Warren and Shirley McNall; SM, Sonja Mendoza;
NMC, Narca Moore-Craig; JN, Josh Nemeth; BN, Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry
Oldenettel; JP, John Parmeter; CP, Cathy Pasterczyk; JJR, John and Jan Rees; CR,
Chris Rustay; MS, Marcy Scott; RS, Robert Shantz; Kso, Krista Sorra;
KS, Ken Stinnett; PT. Patricia Taber; BV, Brad Vaughn; WW, Bill Wittman;
JW, Jimmy Woodard; 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.
The banding team plans one more trip up to Sandia Crest for Rosy Finches on
Sunday, April 2. They hope to reach a total of 300 banded for the winter.
The Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe has nature walks on the grounds
every Saturday at 8:30 a.m. For details call them at 983-4609.
Prcha Dam State Park will have nature walks through March at 2 p.m. on
Saturdays and 10 a.m. on Sundays by Paul Yoder. Contact him at 743-3942. There
will also be walks by appointment and a posted board with notes on birds seen in
the area to Elephant Butte Lake.
- End transcript.