- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* April 6, 2006
NMEX0604.06
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
American White Pelican (Colfax)
Snowy Egret (Valencia)
GLOSSY IBIS (Socorro)
Green-winged X Cinnamon Teal (Socorro)
Peregrine Falcon (Dona Ana)
Zone-tailed and Common Black Hawks (Grant))
Zone-tailed Hawk (Hidalgo, Socorro)
Swainson’s Hawk (Socorro)
Bald Eagle (Colfax)
Northern Bobwhite and Snowy Plover (Quay)
Black-necked Stilt (Valencia)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Socorro)
Long-billed Curlew (Socorro)
Dowitchers (Bernalillo)
Franklin’s and Bonaparte’s Gulls (Colfax)
HEERMANN’S GULL (Grant)
Barn and Long-eared Owls (Colfax)
Whiskered and Western Screech-Owls (Hidalgo)
Burrowing Owl (Valencia)
Common Ground-Dove (Dona Ana)
Common Poorwill (Hidalgo)
Rufous Hummingbird (Dona Ana)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Colfax)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Socorro)
Dusky-capped Flycatcher (Hidalgo)
Black-capped Chickadee (Colfax)
Cactus Wren (Bernalillo)
American Dipper (Colfax)
Sprague’s Pipit (Socorro)
Yellow Warbler (Socorro)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dona Ana)
Painted Redstart (Hidalgo)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Socorro)
Fox Sparrow (Bernalillo, Grant)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro, Dona Ana, Bernalillo)
Harris’s Sparrow (Socorro)
Northern Cardinal (Dona Ana)
YELLOW GROSBEAK (Bernalillo)
RUSTY BLACKBIRD (Quay)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: April 6, 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 April 6, 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, Glossy Ibis.
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 Colfax County:
At Sugarite State Park near Raton on April 1 DC found six LEWIS’S
WOODPECKERS, a DIPPER, and three BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES. Two more woodpeckers were
along NM 72 at mile marker 7 in Yankee and four more were in Yankee Canyon.
At Springer Lake on April 1 there were four FRANKLIN’S and five BONAPARTE’S
GULLS. He had three BONAPARTE’S on Stubblefield Lake on April 3.
DC on March 30 had seven BALD EAGLES at Eagle Nest Lake.
At the Maxwell Refuge on A5 just north of the junction with A1 on March 26
DC found three LONG-EARED OWLS and a BARN OWL.
DC saw 15 WHITE PELICANS on Lake 12 on the Maxwell Refuge March 24.
In Quay County:
DC on March 25 at Ute Lake saw a SNOWY PLOVER, 12 BOBWHITES, and at least
one vocalizing RUSTY BLACKBIRD.
In Bernalillo County:
The YELLOW GROSBEAK has been 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
onto Las Lomas, it is at backyard feeders. Many have viewed it through April
1 (by LS). Few reports have been received lately, by the way.
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.
At the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque NC says they banded a red FOX
SPARROW on March 18. JJ on April 1 again saw a red FOX SPARROW and a
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the green feeder from the viewing pond.
JJ also had DOWITCHERS at the ponds near Fourth and Tramway in Albuquerque
on April 2.
In Valencia county;
At the marsh behind the Taco Bell in Belen JP amd JO found a SNOWY EGRET.
And on March 28 KSo saw 17 BLACK-NECKED STILTS with the BURROWING OWL in the
field across from the Taco Bell across the highway.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio JO and MH found a GLOSSY IBIS
on the Farm Loop on April 2. GF had the WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the visitor
center on April 3, and MH reports the HARRIS’S SPARROW was still there on
April 2. MH reported a YELLOW WARBLER on April 2. On April 1 DE had a migrant
ZONE-TAILED HAWK flying over near the Norton Blind and SM saw a
female-plumaged VERMILION FLYCATCHER on the Marsh Loop between Audio Stops 6 and 7.
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 was a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW.
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 on March 28. MH on March 29 found 20 SWAINSON’S HAWKS, a hybrid
BLUE-WINGED X CINNAMON TEAL, 30 curlews and two lesser yellowlegs. JO had
24 of the hawks on April 1.
In Grant County:
SOW got a photo from JT on March 28 taken on I-10 at mile marker 53 at the
eastbound rest stop of a second year HEERMANN’S GULL molting into adult
plumage.
MF saw a ZONE-TAILED HAWK over Mangas Springs on March 18 and EW had another
on March 17 over the Gila Bird Farm. The same day RS reported the first
BLACK HAWK thereand also had a red FOX SPARROW there on March 24.
In Hidalgo County:
JN on March 25 had calling POORWILLS and a PAINTED REDSTART in Clanton
Canyon. CCBr on April 2 at the canyon had the redstart, a DUSKY-CAPPED
FLYCATCHER, and heard the WHISKERED and WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS.
CCBr on April 1 had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK over Dunagan’s Crossing on county
Hwy. 1 south of Animas. They say they heard from the owner that he is selling
his 100 acres there.
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:
LM advises that the waste treatment ponds there will be closed for up to a
year for construction.
In Doña Ana County:
DG has had a COMMON GROUND-DOVE show up at odd times at his Las Cruces yard.
He also had a RUFOUS/ALLEN’S HUMMINGGIRD type with a green back on April 2
with a CARDINAL.
In Mesilla Park JN 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 CCBr
reported a PERRGRINE FALLCON on March 28.
CCBr had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW singing in their yard on March 29.
JZ ans MS had at their home near Radium Springs on March 25 a RUFOUS
HUMMINGBIRD male.
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; NC, Nancy Cox; DE.
Davod Elwonger; GF, Gary Froehlich; MF, Michael Fugagli; DG, David Griffin;
MH. Michael Hilchey; JJ. Jim Joseph; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone;
SM. Sonja Mendoza; NMC, Narca Moore-Craig; JN, Josh Nemeth; JO, Jerry
Oldenettel; JP, John Parmeter; LS, Larry Sanders; MS, Marcy Scott; RS,
Roland Shook; KSo, Krista Sorra; JT, Jerry Toll; BV, Brad Vaughn; SOW, Sartor
Williams; EW, Eleanor Wootten; 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. April 13 is to Bosque del Apache, April 20 to the trail at Embudito
Canyon; and on April 27 to Roger Hoppe’s home in Sandia Heights.
On the weekend of April 7 to 9 Sangre de Cristo Audubon will go to a
Prairie Chicken lek at Milnesand. Contactis Dawn Davis at 762-5127 or for info on
the lek trips.
On Saturday, April 15 Southwest Audubon will go to Katfish Kove in Luna Co.
Trip leaders are Larry Malone and David Beatty at 534-1450.
On the weekend of April 22-23 Central will tour to Bitter Lake Refuge amd
Rattlenake Springs led by Sei Tokuda. They will spend the night in Carlsbad.
Contact him at 266-2480.
And on April 22-23 Mesilla Valley Audubon will also be at Rattlesnake
Springs and the Carlsbad area, the Salt Lakes, or Sitting Bull Falls, and the
Guadalupe Mts. Contact Walt Whitman at 521-1358.
On Sunday, April 23 Sangre de Cristo will go to the migrant trap near
Melrose. Contact is Lonnie Howard at 995-9799 or Gail Szpatura at 471-4496.
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.
- End transcript.
* New Mexico Bird Report
* April 6, 2006
NMEX0604.06
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
American White Pelican (Colfax)
Snowy Egret (Valencia)
GLOSSY IBIS (Socorro)
Green-winged X Cinnamon Teal (Socorro)
Peregrine Falcon (Dona Ana)
Zone-tailed and Common Black Hawks (Grant))
Zone-tailed Hawk (Hidalgo, Socorro)
Swainson’s Hawk (Socorro)
Bald Eagle (Colfax)
Northern Bobwhite and Snowy Plover (Quay)
Black-necked Stilt (Valencia)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Socorro)
Long-billed Curlew (Socorro)
Dowitchers (Bernalillo)
Franklin’s and Bonaparte’s Gulls (Colfax)
HEERMANN’S GULL (Grant)
Barn and Long-eared Owls (Colfax)
Whiskered and Western Screech-Owls (Hidalgo)
Burrowing Owl (Valencia)
Common Ground-Dove (Dona Ana)
Common Poorwill (Hidalgo)
Rufous Hummingbird (Dona Ana)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Colfax)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Socorro)
Dusky-capped Flycatcher (Hidalgo)
Black-capped Chickadee (Colfax)
Cactus Wren (Bernalillo)
American Dipper (Colfax)
Sprague’s Pipit (Socorro)
Yellow Warbler (Socorro)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dona Ana)
Painted Redstart (Hidalgo)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Socorro)
Fox Sparrow (Bernalillo, Grant)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro, Dona Ana, Bernalillo)
Harris’s Sparrow (Socorro)
Northern Cardinal (Dona Ana)
YELLOW GROSBEAK (Bernalillo)
RUSTY BLACKBIRD (Quay)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: April 6, 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 April 6, 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, Glossy Ibis.
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 Colfax County:
At Sugarite State Park near Raton on April 1 DC found six LEWIS’S
WOODPECKERS, a DIPPER, and three BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES. Two more woodpeckers were
along NM 72 at mile marker 7 in Yankee and four more were in Yankee Canyon.
At Springer Lake on April 1 there were four FRANKLIN’S and five BONAPARTE’S
GULLS. He had three BONAPARTE’S on Stubblefield Lake on April 3.
DC on March 30 had seven BALD EAGLES at Eagle Nest Lake.
At the Maxwell Refuge on A5 just north of the junction with A1 on March 26
DC found three LONG-EARED OWLS and a BARN OWL.
DC saw 15 WHITE PELICANS on Lake 12 on the Maxwell Refuge March 24.
In Quay County:
DC on March 25 at Ute Lake saw a SNOWY PLOVER, 12 BOBWHITES, and at least
one vocalizing RUSTY BLACKBIRD.
In Bernalillo County:
The YELLOW GROSBEAK has been 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
onto Las Lomas, it is at backyard feeders. Many have viewed it through April
1 (by LS). Few reports have been received lately, by the way.
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.
At the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque NC says they banded a red FOX
SPARROW on March 18. JJ on April 1 again saw a red FOX SPARROW and a
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the green feeder from the viewing pond.
JJ also had DOWITCHERS at the ponds near Fourth and Tramway in Albuquerque
on April 2.
In Valencia county;
At the marsh behind the Taco Bell in Belen JP amd JO found a SNOWY EGRET.
And on March 28 KSo saw 17 BLACK-NECKED STILTS with the BURROWING OWL in the
field across from the Taco Bell across the highway.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio JO and MH found a GLOSSY IBIS
on the Farm Loop on April 2. GF had the WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the visitor
center on April 3, and MH reports the HARRIS’S SPARROW was still there on
April 2. MH reported a YELLOW WARBLER on April 2. On April 1 DE had a migrant
ZONE-TAILED HAWK flying over near the Norton Blind and SM saw a
female-plumaged VERMILION FLYCATCHER on the Marsh Loop between Audio Stops 6 and 7.
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 was a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW.
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 on March 28. MH on March 29 found 20 SWAINSON’S HAWKS, a hybrid
BLUE-WINGED X CINNAMON TEAL, 30 curlews and two lesser yellowlegs. JO had
24 of the hawks on April 1.
In Grant County:
SOW got a photo from JT on March 28 taken on I-10 at mile marker 53 at the
eastbound rest stop of a second year HEERMANN’S GULL molting into adult
plumage.
MF saw a ZONE-TAILED HAWK over Mangas Springs on March 18 and EW had another
on March 17 over the Gila Bird Farm. The same day RS reported the first
BLACK HAWK thereand also had a red FOX SPARROW there on March 24.
In Hidalgo County:
JN on March 25 had calling POORWILLS and a PAINTED REDSTART in Clanton
Canyon. CCBr on April 2 at the canyon had the redstart, a DUSKY-CAPPED
FLYCATCHER, and heard the WHISKERED and WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS.
CCBr on April 1 had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK over Dunagan’s Crossing on county
Hwy. 1 south of Animas. They say they heard from the owner that he is selling
his 100 acres there.
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:
LM advises that the waste treatment ponds there will be closed for up to a
year for construction.
In Doña Ana County:
DG has had a COMMON GROUND-DOVE show up at odd times at his Las Cruces yard.
He also had a RUFOUS/ALLEN’S HUMMINGGIRD type with a green back on April 2
with a CARDINAL.
In Mesilla Park JN 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 CCBr
reported a PERRGRINE FALLCON on March 28.
CCBr had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW singing in their yard on March 29.
JZ ans MS had at their home near Radium Springs on March 25 a RUFOUS
HUMMINGBIRD male.
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; NC, Nancy Cox; DE.
Davod Elwonger; GF, Gary Froehlich; MF, Michael Fugagli; DG, David Griffin;
MH. Michael Hilchey; JJ. Jim Joseph; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone;
SM. Sonja Mendoza; NMC, Narca Moore-Craig; JN, Josh Nemeth; JO, Jerry
Oldenettel; JP, John Parmeter; LS, Larry Sanders; MS, Marcy Scott; RS,
Roland Shook; KSo, Krista Sorra; JT, Jerry Toll; BV, Brad Vaughn; SOW, Sartor
Williams; EW, Eleanor Wootten; 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. April 13 is to Bosque del Apache, April 20 to the trail at Embudito
Canyon; and on April 27 to Roger Hoppe’s home in Sandia Heights.
On the weekend of April 7 to 9 Sangre de Cristo Audubon will go to a
Prairie Chicken lek at Milnesand. Contactis Dawn Davis at 762-5127 or for info on
the lek trips.
On Saturday, April 15 Southwest Audubon will go to Katfish Kove in Luna Co.
Trip leaders are Larry Malone and David Beatty at 534-1450.
On the weekend of April 22-23 Central will tour to Bitter Lake Refuge amd
Rattlenake Springs led by Sei Tokuda. They will spend the night in Carlsbad.
Contact him at 266-2480.
And on April 22-23 Mesilla Valley Audubon will also be at Rattlesnake
Springs and the Carlsbad area, the Salt Lakes, or Sitting Bull Falls, and the
Guadalupe Mts. Contact Walt Whitman at 521-1358.
On Sunday, April 23 Sangre de Cristo will go to the migrant trap near
Melrose. Contact is Lonnie Howard at 995-9799 or Gail Szpatura at 471-4496.
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.
- End transcript.