- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* April 13, 2006
NMEX0604.13
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
American White Pelican (Socorro)
American Bittern (Chaves)
GLOSSY IBIS (Socorro)
Dark ibis (Dona Ana)
Snow Goose (Socorro)
Osprey (Cibola)
White-tailed Kite (Grant)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Socorro, Hidalgo)
Ferruginous Hawk (Eddy)
Peregrine Falcon (Dona Ana, Chaves)
Lesser Prairie-chicken (Roosevelt)
Long-billed Curlew (Curry, Eddy, Dona Ana))
Barn and Long-eared Owls (Colfax)
Whiskered-Screech-Owls (Hidalgo)
Burrowing Owl (Valencia, Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Socorro)
Common Ground-Dove (Dona Ana)
Broad-tailed and Black-chinned Hummingbird (Dona Ana)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Colfax)
Acorn Woodpecker (Cibola, Dona Ana)
Possible Greater Pewee (Eddy)
Dusky-capped Flycatcher (Hidalgo)
Winter Wren (Bernalillo)
Bell’s Vireo (Socorro, Dona Ana))
Hutton’s Vireo (Dona Ana)
American Dipper (Colfax)
Sprague’s Pipit (Eddy)
Olive Warbler (Sierra/Grant)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dona Ana, Lea)
Grace’s Warbler (Cibola)
Black-and-white Warbler (Eddy)
Field Sparrow (Roosevelt)
Black-chinned Sparrow (Hidalgo, Dona Ana)
Cassin’s and Baird’s Sparrows (Eddy)
Lark Bunting (Roosevelt)
Swamp Sparrow (Dona Ana)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro (Bernalillo)
Harris’s Sparrow (Roosevelt)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (Roosevelt)
Northern Cardinal (Dona Ana)
YELLOW GROSBEAK (Bernalillo)
Scott’s Oriole (Hidalgo)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: April 13, 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 13, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Yellow
Grosbeak, Glossy Ibis, White-tailed Kite.
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 and a DIPPER, and three BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES.
` 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.
In Cibola County:
CJG on April 8-9 reported a controlled burn in the Big Tubes area of El
Malpais NM. While there he saw an ACORN WOODPECKER and an OSPREY flew over. The
area is temporarily closed. GRACE’S WARBLERS have returned to El Morro NM.
In Bernalillo County:
JJ had a WINTER WREN on April 9 in the upper reaches of Embudito Canyon on
the west side of the Sandias. It was about a half mile below the trail that
intersects the Embudo Canyon Trail.
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 6 (by MB). Few reports have been received lately, by the way.
In Valencia county;
At the marsh behind the Taco Bell in Belen on March 28 KSo saw the BURROWING
OWL in the field across from the Taco Bell across the highway.
In Roosevelt County:
CR on the lek visit at Milnesand on April 8-9 found the LESSER PRAIRIE
CHICKENS in good numbers this spring. Four FIELD SPARROWS were in the area with
LARK BUNTINGS passing through in large numbers with sightings of
CHESTNUT-COLLARED LOMGSPURS and SAGE THRASHERS. He says LS had an adult HARRIS’S
SPARROW
on April 8 about 12 miles east and a mile south of Milnesand, but it was not
refound.
In Curry County:
SMc on April 9 had two LONG-BILLED CURLEWS return to her pasture a half mile
north of Clovis.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio a GLOSSY IBIS was seen by JP,
LL, WW, and JO on April 8 at the south end of the Marsh Loop. GF had the
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the visitor center on April 3. On April 9 SM heard a
BELL’E VIREO on the Rio Viejo Trail near guidepost 10 with WHITE PELICANS in
good numbers and a small flock of SNOW GEESE flying over the trail.
JP, JO, LL, and WW had a calling PYGMY OWL a half mile above the campground
in Water Canyon, west of Socorro, on April 8. RC had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK in
the canyon on April 2.
In Chaves County:
BW and JNM on April 12 saw three AMERICAN BITTERNS from the blind at Bitter
Lake Refuge. KH has a late report of a PEREGRINE FALCON at Bitter Lake on
March 31.
In Sierra County:
JP, LL, WW, and HS had an OLIVE WARBLER in the Black Range at Emory Pass
west of Kingston on March 1.
In Grant County:
JP, LL, WW, and HS on April 1 had a single WHITE-TAILED KITE near mile
marker 33 south of Hachita where the road veers right (west) and then comes back
south (left).
The JP team on March 31 saw a BLACK HAWK at Redrock along the Gila Rio.
In Hidalgo County:
CCBr on April 2 at Clanton Canyon had a DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER, and heard
the WHISKERED-SCREECH-OWLS. The JP team on April 1 had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK,
the flycatcher, two singing BLACK-CHINNED SPARROW west of the summit, and
several singing SCOTT’S ORIOLES.
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. Has it opened yet?
In Dona Ana County:
DG has had a COMMON GROUND-DOVE show up at odd times at his Las Cruces yard.
He saw it again on April 11.
In Mesilla Park JN had BLACK-CHINNED and BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRDS in
Mesilla Park on April 9. 120 dark ibis and 12 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS flew over on
April 12. He still had several MYRTLE’S WARBLERS on April 10.
JN had a PEREGRINE FALCON over Burn Lake in Las Cruces on April 11.
CBr at the Mesilla Valley Bosque Park south of Mesilla on April 11 had a
SWAMP SPARROW, a CARDINAL, and heard a BELL’S VIREO.
On the Pine Tree Trail at Aguirre Springs on the east sidr of the Organ Mts.
DG on April 9 found many BLACK-CHINNED SPARROWS, an ACORN WOODPECKER, AND
two HUTTON’S VIREOS.
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:
JN had five LONG-BILLED CURLEWS and a FERRUGINOUS HAWK south of Hope on
April 7.
BW and JNM on April 12 had a SPRAGUE’S PIPIT north of co. 95 about ten miles
north of Hope. They had a BAIRD’S SPARROW in Bullis Canyon ten miles
southwest of Hope with CASSIN’S SPARROWS.
At Rattlesnake Springs RC had a late report of a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER and
says two eastern birders saw a POSSIBLE GREATER PEWEE on March 31 and April
9. No details or names.
KH had BURROWING OWLS in the Super ( parking lot in Carlsbad on April 9.
In Lea County:
RC on Apirl 8 had a MYRTLE WARBLER at the Tatum Sewage Ponds.
INITIALS USED:
MB, Marilyn Brinkley; CCBr. Charles and Chandra Britt; RC, Robert Cates;
DC, David Cleary; GF, Gary Froehlich; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C.J. Grimes;
KH, Karen Herzenberg; JJ, Jim Joseph; LL, Lane Leckman; CL, Carl
Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; SMc, Sue McLeod; SM. Sonja Mendoza; NMC, Narca
Moore-Craig; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JN, Josh Nemeth; JO, Jerry Oldenettel;
JP, John Parmeter; CR, Chris Rustay; LS, Lawry Sager; HS, Heidi Simms; KSo,
Krista Sorra; BW, Bill West; WW, Bill Wittman.
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 20 is to the trail at Embudito Canyon; and on April 27 to Roger
Hoppe’s home in Sandia Heights.
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.
Paul Yoder advises that will nbe a MIGRATION SENSATION at Percha Dam State
Park on April 29-30. Contact him at 744-5998. A self-guided nature trail is
being built.
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 13, 2006
NMEX0604.13
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
American White Pelican (Socorro)
American Bittern (Chaves)
GLOSSY IBIS (Socorro)
Dark ibis (Dona Ana)
Snow Goose (Socorro)
Osprey (Cibola)
White-tailed Kite (Grant)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Socorro, Hidalgo)
Ferruginous Hawk (Eddy)
Peregrine Falcon (Dona Ana, Chaves)
Lesser Prairie-chicken (Roosevelt)
Long-billed Curlew (Curry, Eddy, Dona Ana))
Barn and Long-eared Owls (Colfax)
Whiskered-Screech-Owls (Hidalgo)
Burrowing Owl (Valencia, Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Socorro)
Common Ground-Dove (Dona Ana)
Broad-tailed and Black-chinned Hummingbird (Dona Ana)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Colfax)
Acorn Woodpecker (Cibola, Dona Ana)
Possible Greater Pewee (Eddy)
Dusky-capped Flycatcher (Hidalgo)
Winter Wren (Bernalillo)
Bell’s Vireo (Socorro, Dona Ana))
Hutton’s Vireo (Dona Ana)
American Dipper (Colfax)
Sprague’s Pipit (Eddy)
Olive Warbler (Sierra/Grant)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dona Ana, Lea)
Grace’s Warbler (Cibola)
Black-and-white Warbler (Eddy)
Field Sparrow (Roosevelt)
Black-chinned Sparrow (Hidalgo, Dona Ana)
Cassin’s and Baird’s Sparrows (Eddy)
Lark Bunting (Roosevelt)
Swamp Sparrow (Dona Ana)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro (Bernalillo)
Harris’s Sparrow (Roosevelt)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (Roosevelt)
Northern Cardinal (Dona Ana)
YELLOW GROSBEAK (Bernalillo)
Scott’s Oriole (Hidalgo)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: April 13, 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 13, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Yellow
Grosbeak, Glossy Ibis, White-tailed Kite.
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 and a DIPPER, and three BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES.
` 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.
In Cibola County:
CJG on April 8-9 reported a controlled burn in the Big Tubes area of El
Malpais NM. While there he saw an ACORN WOODPECKER and an OSPREY flew over. The
area is temporarily closed. GRACE’S WARBLERS have returned to El Morro NM.
In Bernalillo County:
JJ had a WINTER WREN on April 9 in the upper reaches of Embudito Canyon on
the west side of the Sandias. It was about a half mile below the trail that
intersects the Embudo Canyon Trail.
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 6 (by MB). Few reports have been received lately, by the way.
In Valencia county;
At the marsh behind the Taco Bell in Belen on March 28 KSo saw the BURROWING
OWL in the field across from the Taco Bell across the highway.
In Roosevelt County:
CR on the lek visit at Milnesand on April 8-9 found the LESSER PRAIRIE
CHICKENS in good numbers this spring. Four FIELD SPARROWS were in the area with
LARK BUNTINGS passing through in large numbers with sightings of
CHESTNUT-COLLARED LOMGSPURS and SAGE THRASHERS. He says LS had an adult HARRIS’S
SPARROW
on April 8 about 12 miles east and a mile south of Milnesand, but it was not
refound.
In Curry County:
SMc on April 9 had two LONG-BILLED CURLEWS return to her pasture a half mile
north of Clovis.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio a GLOSSY IBIS was seen by JP,
LL, WW, and JO on April 8 at the south end of the Marsh Loop. GF had the
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the visitor center on April 3. On April 9 SM heard a
BELL’E VIREO on the Rio Viejo Trail near guidepost 10 with WHITE PELICANS in
good numbers and a small flock of SNOW GEESE flying over the trail.
JP, JO, LL, and WW had a calling PYGMY OWL a half mile above the campground
in Water Canyon, west of Socorro, on April 8. RC had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK in
the canyon on April 2.
In Chaves County:
BW and JNM on April 12 saw three AMERICAN BITTERNS from the blind at Bitter
Lake Refuge. KH has a late report of a PEREGRINE FALCON at Bitter Lake on
March 31.
In Sierra County:
JP, LL, WW, and HS had an OLIVE WARBLER in the Black Range at Emory Pass
west of Kingston on March 1.
In Grant County:
JP, LL, WW, and HS on April 1 had a single WHITE-TAILED KITE near mile
marker 33 south of Hachita where the road veers right (west) and then comes back
south (left).
The JP team on March 31 saw a BLACK HAWK at Redrock along the Gila Rio.
In Hidalgo County:
CCBr on April 2 at Clanton Canyon had a DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER, and heard
the WHISKERED-SCREECH-OWLS. The JP team on April 1 had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK,
the flycatcher, two singing BLACK-CHINNED SPARROW west of the summit, and
several singing SCOTT’S ORIOLES.
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. Has it opened yet?
In Dona Ana County:
DG has had a COMMON GROUND-DOVE show up at odd times at his Las Cruces yard.
He saw it again on April 11.
In Mesilla Park JN had BLACK-CHINNED and BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRDS in
Mesilla Park on April 9. 120 dark ibis and 12 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS flew over on
April 12. He still had several MYRTLE’S WARBLERS on April 10.
JN had a PEREGRINE FALCON over Burn Lake in Las Cruces on April 11.
CBr at the Mesilla Valley Bosque Park south of Mesilla on April 11 had a
SWAMP SPARROW, a CARDINAL, and heard a BELL’S VIREO.
On the Pine Tree Trail at Aguirre Springs on the east sidr of the Organ Mts.
DG on April 9 found many BLACK-CHINNED SPARROWS, an ACORN WOODPECKER, AND
two HUTTON’S VIREOS.
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:
JN had five LONG-BILLED CURLEWS and a FERRUGINOUS HAWK south of Hope on
April 7.
BW and JNM on April 12 had a SPRAGUE’S PIPIT north of co. 95 about ten miles
north of Hope. They had a BAIRD’S SPARROW in Bullis Canyon ten miles
southwest of Hope with CASSIN’S SPARROWS.
At Rattlesnake Springs RC had a late report of a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER and
says two eastern birders saw a POSSIBLE GREATER PEWEE on March 31 and April
9. No details or names.
KH had BURROWING OWLS in the Super ( parking lot in Carlsbad on April 9.
In Lea County:
RC on Apirl 8 had a MYRTLE WARBLER at the Tatum Sewage Ponds.
INITIALS USED:
MB, Marilyn Brinkley; CCBr. Charles and Chandra Britt; RC, Robert Cates;
DC, David Cleary; GF, Gary Froehlich; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C.J. Grimes;
KH, Karen Herzenberg; JJ, Jim Joseph; LL, Lane Leckman; CL, Carl
Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; SMc, Sue McLeod; SM. Sonja Mendoza; NMC, Narca
Moore-Craig; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JN, Josh Nemeth; JO, Jerry Oldenettel;
JP, John Parmeter; CR, Chris Rustay; LS, Lawry Sager; HS, Heidi Simms; KSo,
Krista Sorra; BW, Bill West; WW, Bill Wittman.
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 20 is to the trail at Embudito Canyon; and on April 27 to Roger
Hoppe’s home in Sandia Heights.
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.
Paul Yoder advises that will nbe a MIGRATION SENSATION at Percha Dam State
Park on April 29-30. Contact him at 744-5998. A self-guided nature trail is
being built.
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.