- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* September 1, 2005
* NMEX0509.01
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Eared Grebe (Curry)
Great Egret (Colfax)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Curry)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Lea)
White-faced Ibis (Otero)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
Snow Goose (Socorro)
Wood Duck (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, Otero)
WHITE-TAILED KITE (Hidalgo)
Northern Harrier (Otero)
Harris's Hawk (Luna)
Gray Hawk (Hidalgo)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Otero)
Peregrine Falcon (Otero, Luna/Doņa Ana)
Northern Bobwhite (DeBaca)
Montezuma Quail (Catron)
Common Moorhen (Socorro)
Willet (Otero, Curry, Chaves)
Long-billed Curlew (Otero, Luna)
Whimbrel (Socorro)
Stilt Sandpiper (Chaves)
Wilson's Phalarope (Otero)
LAUGHING and California Gulls (Sierra)
Forster's Tern (Eddy)
Black Tern (Otero, Curry, Eddy)
Inca Dove (Curry)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Catron, Grant)
Monk Parakeet escape (Doņa Ana)
Blue-throated Hummingbird (Cibola)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Colfax)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Catron)
Willow Flycatcher (Roosevelt, Luna)
Hammond's Flycatcher (Luna)
Western type flycatcher (Doņa Ana)
Vermilion Flycatcher (DeBaca)
GREATER KISKADEE (Lea)
Eastern Kingbird (Roosevelt)
Cassin's Vireo (Roosevelt, Cibola, Colfax, Sierra)
American Dipper (Colfax, Catron)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo)
Crissal Thrasher (Socorro)
Cedar Waxwing (Catron)
Olive Warbler (Grant)
Orange-crowned Warbler (San Juan)
Nashville Warbler (Roosevelt)
HERMIT WARBLER (Grant, Otero)
Townsend's Warbler (Colfax)
American Redstart (Roosevelt)
Northern Waterthrush (DeBaca, Otero, Socorro)
Painted Redstart (Otero)
Botteri's Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Roosevelt)
Lark Bunting (Doņa Ana)
Northern Cardinal (Guadalupe)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Grant)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro)
Painted Bunting (Roosevelt, Otero)
Orchard Oriole (Guadalupe, DeBaca, Roosevelt)
Pine Siskin (Doņa Ana)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: September 1, 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 September 1, 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.
Sad news to report is that Ryan Beaulieu was killed near Roswell in an
auto accident on August 28 and Raymond VanBuskirk was badly injured.
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 Juan County:
PK on August 30 reported an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in a residential area
east of Farmington.
In Colfax County:
DC had a DIPPER on August 13 at the Tolby Campground east of Eagle Nest. On
August 28 there was a CASSIN'S VIREO and three TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS.
At Stubblefield Lake DC on August 29 saw one COMMON LOON and one GREAT EGRET.
BH and DK on August 21 on the road from Maxwell to the Maxwell Refuge saw
six fly-over LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS.
In Cibola County:
CR on August 27 reported a female-plumaged BLUE-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
coming to a feeder near the Ice Caves south of Grants. This is a private home
with the owners present only on weekends. Call Kate or parents at 783-4626.
Between El Morro Monument and Grants CJG reports a good warbler
migration. On August 24 he had a CASSIN'S VIREO (photo) at El Morro
Monument.
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.
In Guadalupe County:
BW and JNM on August 21 saw at the Power Dam Park in Santa Rosa three
ORCHARD ORIOLES with two CARDINALS behind the sewage ponds.
In DeBaca County:
BW and JNM on August 21 found the Russian olives have all been trimmed at
the Bosque Redondo Park near Fort Sumner and they saw a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH.
At the Fort Sumner sewage ponds there was an immature VERMILION FLYCATCHER
and four first year ORCHARD ORIOLES. They saw two families of 15 each of
BOBWHITE in the area.
In Roosevelt County:
BW and JNM on August 21 found at the migrant trap 11 miles west of
Melrose a CASSIN'S VIREO, three immature PAINTED BUNTINGS, and a WILLOW FLYCATCHER,
with another ORCHARD ORIOLE at the abandoned ranch just to the southwest. CL
on August 31 found a female AMERICAN REDSTART, NASHVILLE WARBLER, EASTERN
KINGBIRD, and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS.
He saw a massasauga rattler at Boone's Draw.
In Curry County:
BW and JNM on August 21 at the Clovis sewage ponds had a WILLET, 50 BLACK
TERNS, 60 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, and an EARED GREBE on a nest! In
Clovis there was an INCA DOVE behind the Albertson's store off Stratford Street.
In Socorro County:
On Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio MW reported three WHIMBRELS
on August 28 on the Marsh Loop on the east side. CL had two MOORHENS on
August 16 with two INDIGO BUNTINGS on the 17th on the two-way road. JS on August
21 saw one lingering SNOW GOOSE, a female WOOD DUCK, and a CRISSAL THRASHER
just west of the headquarters rest rooms.
CL on August 30 had a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU
campus in Socorro.
In Chaves County:
WW and GW had a ROSEATE SPOONBILL at Bitter Lake Refuge on Unit 15. CL
had it at the Oxbow on August 25. Also seen was a WILLET and STILT SANDPIPERS.
In Sierra County:
CL on August 30 had a CASSIN'S VIREO at Percha State Park.
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:
JH on August 29 had an immature WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER at her home east
of Datil with the first CEDAR WAXWING on August 30.
CL on August 11 saw two MONTEZUMA QUAIL with young on August 10 a half
mile east of Mogollon. On August 10 he had a PYGMY OWL at the Gilita Campground
at Snow Lake.
JH had an OSPREY at Quemado Lake on August 23.
BWi sighted a DIPPER in Whitewater Canyon at Glenwood on August 7 at the top
of the canyon.
In Grant County:
DM and CLe had a male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK in their Pinos Altos yard on
August 14.
On August 10 CL at Signal Peak in the mountains north of Pinos Altos saw
on the road up to the peak one or two HERMIT 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. 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.
BW and JNM had two BOTTERI'S SPARROWS south of marker 13.
On August 7 in the New Mexico part of Guadalupe Canyon BW and JNM had two
GRAY HAWKS near the ranch. JB, MB, and NP had the Gray Hawks on August 9.
In Luna County:
TB on August 29 saw a PEREGRINE FALCON on a pole in NM 26 west of Hatch
at the Luna.Doņa Co. line.
LM on August 29 had WILLOW and HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHERS at the Mountain View
Cemetery in Deming. He had a LONG-BILLED CURLEW fly over his Deming home on
August 21 and a HARRIS'S HAWK on August 23.
In Doņa Ana County:
DG at his home north of Las Cruces has had on August 21 to 25 LARK
BUNTINGS, two PINE SISKINS on August 24, and an escaped MONK PARAKEET (which was
returned to its owner). On August 27 there was a non-calling western type
flycatcher, probably a CORDILLERAN.
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. LS on August
21 found at the lake a LONG-BILLED CURLEW, WHITE-FACED IBIS, two BLACK TERNS,
and a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. CL on August 24 saw a WILLET, about 1000 WILSON'S
PHALAROPES, a PEREGINE and an OSPREY, a female-plumaged PAINTED BUNTING, and
an early HARRIER.
MBr on August 19 sent a late report of a HERMIT WARBLER south of
Cloudcroft where Forest Trail 105 intersects Pine Spring Canyon about 4.4 miles along
the trail south of Sacramento Peak. He saw a PAINTED REDSTART on August 22 on
Sacramento Peak.
CL on August 24 in the Sacramento Mts. about 17 miles south of Cloudcroft
at Bluff Springs had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK and many migrant warblers.
In Eddy County:
CL on August 25 at Brantley Lake had three BLACK TERNS, with 20 to 25
more at Avalon Lake. There were three FORSTER'S TERNS at Avalon. Very few
migrants were at Rattlesnake Springs.
SW reports there are ELF OWLS in the Guadalupe Mts. at Dark Canyon, Rocky
Arroyo, and Last Chance Canyon.
In Lea County:
JB found an adult YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON at the Tatum Sewage Ponds on
August 27. JO did not find it on August 29.
A report came from PM that on July 1 there was a KISKADEE in his yard in
Eunice. Call him at 394-2600. PM reports the kiskadee was still there on
August 21.
Initials Used:
JB, Jonathan Batkin; MB, Matt Baumann; MBr, Mike Bradford; CB, Celestyn
Brozek; TB, Trudy Buck; DC, David Cleary; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C.J.
Grimes; JH, Joan Hardie; BH, Bill Howe; PK, Paul Kaufman; DK, David Krueper;
CLe, Carl Levi; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; PM, Pat McCasland; LN,
Lannois Neely; DN, Damie Nelson; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JO, Jerry
Oldenettel; JP, John Parmeter; NP, Nick Pederson; CR, Chris Rustay; JR, Janet
Ruth; LS, Lorraine Schulte; JS, John Shipman; GW, Gordon Warrick; MW, Mark
Watson; BW, Bill West; SW, Steve West; BWi, Bob Wilcox; 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. September 8 they go to the Belen and Isleta marshes with Marge Williams;
September 15 at the Shady Lakes fishing ponds with Sally Burke; September 22
to Quarai Ruins and the Manzanitas with the Boettchers; and on September 29 to
Ponderosa with Rebecca Gracey.
On Saturday, September 17, Southwestern Audubon will explore the Big Ditch in
Silver City. Call 534-1450 for details.
On Saturday, September 24, Sangre de Cristo will bird the Las Vegas Refuge.
Contact is David White at 466-3444.
On the weekend of September 24-25 Mesilla Valley explores the area of Bitter
Lake Refuge with Bottomless Lakes and the Dexter Fish Hatchery near Roswell.
Contact is Walt Whitford at 521-1358.
The Farmington group has Tuesday morning walks at the Riverside Nature
Center. Contact Paul Kaufman at pkkaufman@emypeople.net.
- End transcript
* New Mexico Bird Report
* September 1, 2005
* NMEX0509.01
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Eared Grebe (Curry)
Great Egret (Colfax)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Curry)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Lea)
White-faced Ibis (Otero)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
Snow Goose (Socorro)
Wood Duck (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, Otero)
WHITE-TAILED KITE (Hidalgo)
Northern Harrier (Otero)
Harris's Hawk (Luna)
Gray Hawk (Hidalgo)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Otero)
Peregrine Falcon (Otero, Luna/Doņa Ana)
Northern Bobwhite (DeBaca)
Montezuma Quail (Catron)
Common Moorhen (Socorro)
Willet (Otero, Curry, Chaves)
Long-billed Curlew (Otero, Luna)
Whimbrel (Socorro)
Stilt Sandpiper (Chaves)
Wilson's Phalarope (Otero)
LAUGHING and California Gulls (Sierra)
Forster's Tern (Eddy)
Black Tern (Otero, Curry, Eddy)
Inca Dove (Curry)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Catron, Grant)
Monk Parakeet escape (Doņa Ana)
Blue-throated Hummingbird (Cibola)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Colfax)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Catron)
Willow Flycatcher (Roosevelt, Luna)
Hammond's Flycatcher (Luna)
Western type flycatcher (Doņa Ana)
Vermilion Flycatcher (DeBaca)
GREATER KISKADEE (Lea)
Eastern Kingbird (Roosevelt)
Cassin's Vireo (Roosevelt, Cibola, Colfax, Sierra)
American Dipper (Colfax, Catron)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo)
Crissal Thrasher (Socorro)
Cedar Waxwing (Catron)
Olive Warbler (Grant)
Orange-crowned Warbler (San Juan)
Nashville Warbler (Roosevelt)
HERMIT WARBLER (Grant, Otero)
Townsend's Warbler (Colfax)
American Redstart (Roosevelt)
Northern Waterthrush (DeBaca, Otero, Socorro)
Painted Redstart (Otero)
Botteri's Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Roosevelt)
Lark Bunting (Doņa Ana)
Northern Cardinal (Guadalupe)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Grant)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro)
Painted Bunting (Roosevelt, Otero)
Orchard Oriole (Guadalupe, DeBaca, Roosevelt)
Pine Siskin (Doņa Ana)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: September 1, 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 September 1, 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.
Sad news to report is that Ryan Beaulieu was killed near Roswell in an
auto accident on August 28 and Raymond VanBuskirk was badly injured.
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 Juan County:
PK on August 30 reported an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in a residential area
east of Farmington.
In Colfax County:
DC had a DIPPER on August 13 at the Tolby Campground east of Eagle Nest. On
August 28 there was a CASSIN'S VIREO and three TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS.
At Stubblefield Lake DC on August 29 saw one COMMON LOON and one GREAT EGRET.
BH and DK on August 21 on the road from Maxwell to the Maxwell Refuge saw
six fly-over LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS.
In Cibola County:
CR on August 27 reported a female-plumaged BLUE-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
coming to a feeder near the Ice Caves south of Grants. This is a private home
with the owners present only on weekends. Call Kate or parents at 783-4626.
Between El Morro Monument and Grants CJG reports a good warbler
migration. On August 24 he had a CASSIN'S VIREO (photo) at El Morro
Monument.
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.
In Guadalupe County:
BW and JNM on August 21 saw at the Power Dam Park in Santa Rosa three
ORCHARD ORIOLES with two CARDINALS behind the sewage ponds.
In DeBaca County:
BW and JNM on August 21 found the Russian olives have all been trimmed at
the Bosque Redondo Park near Fort Sumner and they saw a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH.
At the Fort Sumner sewage ponds there was an immature VERMILION FLYCATCHER
and four first year ORCHARD ORIOLES. They saw two families of 15 each of
BOBWHITE in the area.
In Roosevelt County:
BW and JNM on August 21 found at the migrant trap 11 miles west of
Melrose a CASSIN'S VIREO, three immature PAINTED BUNTINGS, and a WILLOW FLYCATCHER,
with another ORCHARD ORIOLE at the abandoned ranch just to the southwest. CL
on August 31 found a female AMERICAN REDSTART, NASHVILLE WARBLER, EASTERN
KINGBIRD, and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS.
He saw a massasauga rattler at Boone's Draw.
In Curry County:
BW and JNM on August 21 at the Clovis sewage ponds had a WILLET, 50 BLACK
TERNS, 60 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, and an EARED GREBE on a nest! In
Clovis there was an INCA DOVE behind the Albertson's store off Stratford Street.
In Socorro County:
On Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio MW reported three WHIMBRELS
on August 28 on the Marsh Loop on the east side. CL had two MOORHENS on
August 16 with two INDIGO BUNTINGS on the 17th on the two-way road. JS on August
21 saw one lingering SNOW GOOSE, a female WOOD DUCK, and a CRISSAL THRASHER
just west of the headquarters rest rooms.
CL on August 30 had a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU
campus in Socorro.
In Chaves County:
WW and GW had a ROSEATE SPOONBILL at Bitter Lake Refuge on Unit 15. CL
had it at the Oxbow on August 25. Also seen was a WILLET and STILT SANDPIPERS.
In Sierra County:
CL on August 30 had a CASSIN'S VIREO at Percha State Park.
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:
JH on August 29 had an immature WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER at her home east
of Datil with the first CEDAR WAXWING on August 30.
CL on August 11 saw two MONTEZUMA QUAIL with young on August 10 a half
mile east of Mogollon. On August 10 he had a PYGMY OWL at the Gilita Campground
at Snow Lake.
JH had an OSPREY at Quemado Lake on August 23.
BWi sighted a DIPPER in Whitewater Canyon at Glenwood on August 7 at the top
of the canyon.
In Grant County:
DM and CLe had a male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK in their Pinos Altos yard on
August 14.
On August 10 CL at Signal Peak in the mountains north of Pinos Altos saw
on the road up to the peak one or two HERMIT 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. 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.
BW and JNM had two BOTTERI'S SPARROWS south of marker 13.
On August 7 in the New Mexico part of Guadalupe Canyon BW and JNM had two
GRAY HAWKS near the ranch. JB, MB, and NP had the Gray Hawks on August 9.
In Luna County:
TB on August 29 saw a PEREGRINE FALCON on a pole in NM 26 west of Hatch
at the Luna.Doņa Co. line.
LM on August 29 had WILLOW and HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHERS at the Mountain View
Cemetery in Deming. He had a LONG-BILLED CURLEW fly over his Deming home on
August 21 and a HARRIS'S HAWK on August 23.
In Doņa Ana County:
DG at his home north of Las Cruces has had on August 21 to 25 LARK
BUNTINGS, two PINE SISKINS on August 24, and an escaped MONK PARAKEET (which was
returned to its owner). On August 27 there was a non-calling western type
flycatcher, probably a CORDILLERAN.
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. LS on August
21 found at the lake a LONG-BILLED CURLEW, WHITE-FACED IBIS, two BLACK TERNS,
and a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. CL on August 24 saw a WILLET, about 1000 WILSON'S
PHALAROPES, a PEREGINE and an OSPREY, a female-plumaged PAINTED BUNTING, and
an early HARRIER.
MBr on August 19 sent a late report of a HERMIT WARBLER south of
Cloudcroft where Forest Trail 105 intersects Pine Spring Canyon about 4.4 miles along
the trail south of Sacramento Peak. He saw a PAINTED REDSTART on August 22 on
Sacramento Peak.
CL on August 24 in the Sacramento Mts. about 17 miles south of Cloudcroft
at Bluff Springs had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK and many migrant warblers.
In Eddy County:
CL on August 25 at Brantley Lake had three BLACK TERNS, with 20 to 25
more at Avalon Lake. There were three FORSTER'S TERNS at Avalon. Very few
migrants were at Rattlesnake Springs.
SW reports there are ELF OWLS in the Guadalupe Mts. at Dark Canyon, Rocky
Arroyo, and Last Chance Canyon.
In Lea County:
JB found an adult YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON at the Tatum Sewage Ponds on
August 27. JO did not find it on August 29.
A report came from PM that on July 1 there was a KISKADEE in his yard in
Eunice. Call him at 394-2600. PM reports the kiskadee was still there on
August 21.
Initials Used:
JB, Jonathan Batkin; MB, Matt Baumann; MBr, Mike Bradford; CB, Celestyn
Brozek; TB, Trudy Buck; DC, David Cleary; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C.J.
Grimes; JH, Joan Hardie; BH, Bill Howe; PK, Paul Kaufman; DK, David Krueper;
CLe, Carl Levi; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; PM, Pat McCasland; LN,
Lannois Neely; DN, Damie Nelson; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JO, Jerry
Oldenettel; JP, John Parmeter; NP, Nick Pederson; CR, Chris Rustay; JR, Janet
Ruth; LS, Lorraine Schulte; JS, John Shipman; GW, Gordon Warrick; MW, Mark
Watson; BW, Bill West; SW, Steve West; BWi, Bob Wilcox; 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. September 8 they go to the Belen and Isleta marshes with Marge Williams;
September 15 at the Shady Lakes fishing ponds with Sally Burke; September 22
to Quarai Ruins and the Manzanitas with the Boettchers; and on September 29 to
Ponderosa with Rebecca Gracey.
On Saturday, September 17, Southwestern Audubon will explore the Big Ditch in
Silver City. Call 534-1450 for details.
On Saturday, September 24, Sangre de Cristo will bird the Las Vegas Refuge.
Contact is David White at 466-3444.
On the weekend of September 24-25 Mesilla Valley explores the area of Bitter
Lake Refuge with Bottomless Lakes and the Dexter Fish Hatchery near Roswell.
Contact is Walt Whitford at 521-1358.
The Farmington group has Tuesday morning walks at the Riverside Nature
Center. Contact Paul Kaufman at pkkaufman@emypeople.net.
- End transcript