- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* July 20, 2006
* NMEX0607.20
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Eared, Western and Clark’s Grebes (Colfax)
Snow Goose and Common Mergansers (Colfax)
White-tailed Kite (Hidalgo)
Mississippi Kite (Valencia, Sandoval)
Bald Eagle (Colfax)
Northern Goshawk (Colfax, Bernalillo)
Common Black-Hawk (guadalupe)
Gray Hawk (Hidalgo)
Montezuma Quail (Grant)
Mountain Plover (Union, Taos)
American Avocet (Otero, Eddy)
Long-billed Curlew (Eddy)
Black-necked Stilt (Otero)
Marbled Godwit (Socorro)
Spotted Sandpiper (Cibola)
Stilt Sandpiper (Eddy)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Colfax)
Black Tern (Eddy)
Common Ground-Dove (Dona Ana)
Whiskered Screech Owl (Hidalgo)
Elf Owl (Eddy, Hidalgo)
Burrowing Owl (Sandoval, Dona Ana, Bernalillo)
Long-eared Owl (Hidalgo)
Spotted Owl (Lincoln)
Whip-poor-will (Hidalgo)
Black Swift (Sandoval)
Calliope Hummingbird (Bernalillo, Dona Ana)
Rufous Hummingbird (San Miguel)
ALLEN’S HUMMINGBIRD (Grant)
Lewis’s Woodpcker (Colfax)
Acorn Woodpecker (Colfax)
Three-toed Woodpecker (Sandoval, Los Alamos, Otero)
Dusky Flycatcher (Colfax)
Black Phoebe (Colfax)
DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER (Grant)
Gray Vireo (Socorro)
Pinyon Jay (Cibola)
Purple Martin (San Miguel, Otero)
BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER (Hidalgo)
Veery (Rio Arriba)
Gray Catbird (Colfax, Rio Arriba)
Olive Warbler (Grant)
Ovenbird (Colfax)
Cassin’s Sparrow (Socorro, Grant, Gugadalupe)
Brewer’s Sparrow (Colfax)
Lark Bunting (Colfax)
Grasshopper and Savannah Sparrows (Colfax)
FOX SPARROW (Rio Arriba)
Yellow-eyed Junco (Grant)
Varied Bunting (Hidalgo)
Dickcissel (Colfax)
Pine Grosbeak (San Miguel)
Red Crossbill (Cibola. Sandoval)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: July 20, 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 July 20, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights: Mountain Plovers,
Dusky-capped Flycatchers, Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Allen’s Hummingbirds,
Fox Sparrow.
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 some birding sites check
hometown.aol.com/borealowl.
For the Bird Records Committee and both Field Notes please send reports to
Dr. Sartor O. Williams, III, 1819 Meadowview NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 or to
_sunbittern@earthlink.net_ (mailto:sunbittern@earthlink.net) .
In Rio Arriba County:
BW and JNM on July 11 found a VEERY and a singing FOX SPARROW along the
river in Chama south of the Elkhorn Café. On the west side of the river there
was a CATBIRD and another Veery. Ask at the Little Creel Lodge for permission
to cross the rio on their bridge.
In Taos County:
JP and BP on July 4 had four MOUNTAIN PLOVERS in the area near Tres Piedras
on US 285 between mile posts 406 and 407 where there are gates on each side
with dirt roads (high clearance best) leading east and west. Take the east
road a half mile to where a dirt track goes off to the right. Park here and
walk the flat areas for the plovers. BW and JNM on July 11 saw seven there .8
mile from US 285.
In Sandoval County:
JR and DK on July 10 had an adult MISSISSIPPI KITE flying over Corrales at
Casa San Isidro on Old Church Road. She also reported there on Wesr Ella off
Loma Larga two BURROWING OWLS.
BV on July 9 had two BLACK SWIFTS and a THREE-TOED WOODPECKER at the Jemez
Falls west of Los Alamos off NM 4. CW saw five swifts the same day.
DB on July 9 had one three-toed woodpecker at the old Dome Burn site on FR
289 off NM 4.
In Los Alamos County:
DB saw four THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS at the Apache Springs area of the
Bandelier NM on July 9. Across Hwy. 4 on a road at American Springs he found
another woodpecker. This is part of the Santa Fe NF.
In San Miguel County:
BW on the road up to Elk Mountain from NM 63 in Pecos Canyon on July 5 saw
two PURPLE MARTINS and a PINE GROSBEAK. There were a few adult male RUF0OUS
HUMMINGBIRDS at the store feeders in Terero in the canyon.
Earlier the telescope at the Crane Lake Overlook was stolen! The Las Vegas
Refuge hopes to get a new one for $4000. Please send donations to the refuge
at Friends of the Las Vegas NWR, RR 1, Box 399, Las Vegas, 87701.
In Colfax County:
After good rains DC on July 13 had two DICKCISSELS beteeen the two ranch
homes on A1 with four LARK BUNTINGS on the Maxwell Refuge. Around Laguna Madre
(north of Stubblefield) there was a singing BREWER’S SPARROW, a singing
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, three SAVANNAH SPARROWS, with a colony of EARED, WESTERN, and
CLARK’S GREBES. An adult BALD EAGLE was at Stubblefield. The sparrows and
grebes were still present on July 19, with five SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERs on
Stubblefield.
DC on July 9 in Yankee at the Yankee Canyon turnoff saw four LEWIS’S
WOODPCKERS.
At Sugarite State Park near Raton on July 9 BN, CR, and RV had a CATBIRD and
three ACORN WOODPECKERS. CR and RV found a singing OVENBIRD. DC saw four
ACORN WOODPECKERS at Lake Alice on July 12. At the Soda Pocket Campground on
July 12 there was five DUSKY FLYCATCHERs and a GOSHAWK for DC.
At Miami Lake on July 10 DC found a COMMON LOON. On NM 21 at mile marker 15
west of the lake there were a LEIS’S WOODPECKER and two CATBIRDS.
DC on July 2 saw again the two DICKCISSELS on NM 505 between mile posts 1
and 2.
In Springer DC found a BLACK PHOEBE at the Cimarron Rio Bridge on NM 21 ON
July 1.
At Eagle Nest Lake on July 1 DC had 30 COMMON MERGANSERS, a late SNOW GOOSE,
and WESTERN GREBES. There was a BLACK PHOEBE at the river bridge in
Cimarron.
In Union county:
CR in the area of Granville had around 18 MOUNTAIN PLOVERS, most in the
first five miles south of town.
In Cibola County:
CJG at the El Morro NM on July 9 had a SPOTTED SANDPIPER at the park sewage
ponds.
CJG at the Ice Caves on NM 53 reported many PINYON JAYS.
In Bernalillo County:
DP on July 17 had a CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD on the Sandia Crest Trail in the
mountains east of Albuquerque. He had a GOSHAWK adult also.
CW on July 9 saw two BURROWING OWLS on the north side of Tramway Road just
east of theSandia Casino.
JSt had a CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD male at his Northeast Heights feeder in
Albuquerque on July 16.
In Valencia County:
MaW reported a MISSISSIPPI KITE at the park at the Rio Grande in Los Luna.
In Guadalupe County”
JO on July 14 had a COMMON BLACK-HAWK and a CASSIN’S SPARROW at the Tres
Lagunas ponds just south of Santa Rosa.
In Socorro County:
MH, SWi, and CW on July 11 had a MARBLED GODWIT on the ponds north of the
east end of the middle two-way road.
JO on June 26 reported a singing CASSIN’S SPARROW in a field a quarter mile
from his home in Luis Lopez south of Socorro.
RR had a GRAY VIREO in the Box Canyon area west Socorro. On US 60 at mile
post 131.5 go north on a dirt road past the climbing cliffs and rest house
into the pinyons on the hill.
In Lincoln County:
CBr on July 9 at a campground at the Bonito Canyon Trailhead on NM 107 north
of Ruidoso had a calling SPOTTED OWL.
In Grant County:
JP and WW on July 17 had a male and a female ALLEN’S HUMMINGBIRD at JDM’s
banding station near Roberts Lake. They were photographed by DAZ. A pair of
Montezuma Quail wandered through her yard.
JP, WW, and HS on June 23 on Burro Peak south of Silver City had one adult
YELLOW-EYED JUNCO. CL on nearby Jack’s Peak in the Big Burros had on July 7
three of the juncos, a DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER, and an OLIVE WARBLER. They
were all within .3 of a mile from the top.
At the Gila Bird Farm MF and EW have had singing CASSIN’S SPARROWS in the
area.
JP, WW, and HS saw a DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER singing at the Cherry Creek
Campground. It was photographed by DAZ.
In Hidalgo County:
RH re-found an adult male BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER in the New Mexico part of
Guadalupe Canyon on July 9 at the 13th stream crossing 3.5 miles from the
entrance gate. (one must walk in). He also reported two GRAY HAWKS in the NM
part. At that time the stream was dry, but that may change. The canyon may
not be entirely safe if it is flooding. In the New Mexico part on June 24 JP
and WW had up to five VARIED BUNTINGS.
JP on July 8 reported a WHITE-TAILED KITE on US 80 south of Rodeo. MA on
July 10 on Gin Road near Rodeo 150 yards east of the junction with Stateline
Road.
On June 25 JP and WW owled Clanton Canyon, In the lower forest part there
was one ELF, and a LONG-EARED. In the campground there was two WHISKERED
SCREECH and two WHIPPOORWILLS.
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:
The waste treatment ponds in Deming have been closed for construction.
In Dona Ana County:
JZ and MS on July 5 at their home near Radium Spring had a male CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRD.
DG at his home northeast of Las Cruces had the COMMON GROUND-DOVE begin to
appear more often. He had a male CALLIOPE July 8-9. Three pairs of BURROWING
OWLS are east of his home.
In Otero County:
WW on July 11 in the Sacramento Mountains found PURPLE MARTINS and a pair of
THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS in a burn area southeast of Cloudcroft. It might be
a good idean to get a Lincoln NF map. He went down Scott Able Road. No sign
anymore for it, but a sign does say to Sacramento.off of Hwy. 63 near
Sunspot. The site is near an old 4-H camp on a logging dirt road. He hiked about
300 yards up from the camp for the woodpeckers. The martins were in Agua
Chiquita a half mile further and past a yellow cattle guard.
CBr on July 7 at the Holloman Lakes saw 200 each of AVOCETS and BLACK-NECKED
STILTS.
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo the "no access" signs are for hunters
only. The entire shore is open to birding. A board has been installed for
birders to list their sightings.
In Eddy County:
RD on July 18 had shorebirds on Brantly Lake including 33 AVOCETS, a
LONG-BILLED CURLEW, eight STILT SANDPIPERS, and a BLACK TERN.
SW in June found ELF OWLS in Last Chance Canyon of the Guadalupe Mts. near
Carlsbad.
INITIALS USED:
MA, Moez Ali; DB, Dan Battaglia; CBr, Charles and/or Chandra Britt; DC,
David Cleary; JDM, Joan Day-Martin; rd, Rob Doster; MF, Mike Fugagli: DG,
David Griffin; CJG, C.J. Grimes; MH, Michael Hilchey; RH, Rich Hoyer;
DK, David Krueper; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; BN, Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry
Oldenettel; DP. Danny Paez; BP, Ben Parmeter; JP, John Parmeter; RR, Robert
Royse; CR, Chris Rustay; JR, Janet Ruth; MS, Marcy Scott; HS, Heidi Simms;
JSt, James Stuart; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk; BV, Brad Vaughn; BW, Bill
West; SW. Steve West; MaW, Marjorie Williams; SWi, Sondra Williamson; WW,
Bill Wittman; CW. Cole Wolf; EW, Eleanor Wootten; JZ, Jimmy Zabriskie; DAZ,
Dale Zimmerman.
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. July 27 is to to Ponderosa in the Jemez Mts. with Rebecca Gracey.
The weekend of July 22-23 will be the Third Annual Hummingbirds of NM
Festival at Roberts Lake with banding by Joan Day-Martin, guided walks, and
educational talks. View schedules online at _www.hbnm.org_ (http://www.hbnm.org) or
call Joan at 1-888-536-4266.
On Saturday, July 29, Tom Taylor will lead a trip FOR Sangre de Crosto to
the Santa Fe Ski Basin. Contact Tom at 983-8260.
Southwestern, Central, and Mesilla Valley will have no summer trips.
- End transcript.
* New Mexico Bird Report
* July 20, 2006
* NMEX0607.20
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Eared, Western and Clark’s Grebes (Colfax)
Snow Goose and Common Mergansers (Colfax)
White-tailed Kite (Hidalgo)
Mississippi Kite (Valencia, Sandoval)
Bald Eagle (Colfax)
Northern Goshawk (Colfax, Bernalillo)
Common Black-Hawk (guadalupe)
Gray Hawk (Hidalgo)
Montezuma Quail (Grant)
Mountain Plover (Union, Taos)
American Avocet (Otero, Eddy)
Long-billed Curlew (Eddy)
Black-necked Stilt (Otero)
Marbled Godwit (Socorro)
Spotted Sandpiper (Cibola)
Stilt Sandpiper (Eddy)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Colfax)
Black Tern (Eddy)
Common Ground-Dove (Dona Ana)
Whiskered Screech Owl (Hidalgo)
Elf Owl (Eddy, Hidalgo)
Burrowing Owl (Sandoval, Dona Ana, Bernalillo)
Long-eared Owl (Hidalgo)
Spotted Owl (Lincoln)
Whip-poor-will (Hidalgo)
Black Swift (Sandoval)
Calliope Hummingbird (Bernalillo, Dona Ana)
Rufous Hummingbird (San Miguel)
ALLEN’S HUMMINGBIRD (Grant)
Lewis’s Woodpcker (Colfax)
Acorn Woodpecker (Colfax)
Three-toed Woodpecker (Sandoval, Los Alamos, Otero)
Dusky Flycatcher (Colfax)
Black Phoebe (Colfax)
DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER (Grant)
Gray Vireo (Socorro)
Pinyon Jay (Cibola)
Purple Martin (San Miguel, Otero)
BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER (Hidalgo)
Veery (Rio Arriba)
Gray Catbird (Colfax, Rio Arriba)
Olive Warbler (Grant)
Ovenbird (Colfax)
Cassin’s Sparrow (Socorro, Grant, Gugadalupe)
Brewer’s Sparrow (Colfax)
Lark Bunting (Colfax)
Grasshopper and Savannah Sparrows (Colfax)
FOX SPARROW (Rio Arriba)
Yellow-eyed Junco (Grant)
Varied Bunting (Hidalgo)
Dickcissel (Colfax)
Pine Grosbeak (San Miguel)
Red Crossbill (Cibola. Sandoval)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: July 20, 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 July 20, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights: Mountain Plovers,
Dusky-capped Flycatchers, Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Allen’s Hummingbirds,
Fox Sparrow.
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 some birding sites check
hometown.aol.com/borealowl.
For the Bird Records Committee and both Field Notes please send reports to
Dr. Sartor O. Williams, III, 1819 Meadowview NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 or to
_sunbittern@earthlink.net_ (mailto:sunbittern@earthlink.net) .
In Rio Arriba County:
BW and JNM on July 11 found a VEERY and a singing FOX SPARROW along the
river in Chama south of the Elkhorn Café. On the west side of the river there
was a CATBIRD and another Veery. Ask at the Little Creel Lodge for permission
to cross the rio on their bridge.
In Taos County:
JP and BP on July 4 had four MOUNTAIN PLOVERS in the area near Tres Piedras
on US 285 between mile posts 406 and 407 where there are gates on each side
with dirt roads (high clearance best) leading east and west. Take the east
road a half mile to where a dirt track goes off to the right. Park here and
walk the flat areas for the plovers. BW and JNM on July 11 saw seven there .8
mile from US 285.
In Sandoval County:
JR and DK on July 10 had an adult MISSISSIPPI KITE flying over Corrales at
Casa San Isidro on Old Church Road. She also reported there on Wesr Ella off
Loma Larga two BURROWING OWLS.
BV on July 9 had two BLACK SWIFTS and a THREE-TOED WOODPECKER at the Jemez
Falls west of Los Alamos off NM 4. CW saw five swifts the same day.
DB on July 9 had one three-toed woodpecker at the old Dome Burn site on FR
289 off NM 4.
In Los Alamos County:
DB saw four THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS at the Apache Springs area of the
Bandelier NM on July 9. Across Hwy. 4 on a road at American Springs he found
another woodpecker. This is part of the Santa Fe NF.
In San Miguel County:
BW on the road up to Elk Mountain from NM 63 in Pecos Canyon on July 5 saw
two PURPLE MARTINS and a PINE GROSBEAK. There were a few adult male RUF0OUS
HUMMINGBIRDS at the store feeders in Terero in the canyon.
Earlier the telescope at the Crane Lake Overlook was stolen! The Las Vegas
Refuge hopes to get a new one for $4000. Please send donations to the refuge
at Friends of the Las Vegas NWR, RR 1, Box 399, Las Vegas, 87701.
In Colfax County:
After good rains DC on July 13 had two DICKCISSELS beteeen the two ranch
homes on A1 with four LARK BUNTINGS on the Maxwell Refuge. Around Laguna Madre
(north of Stubblefield) there was a singing BREWER’S SPARROW, a singing
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, three SAVANNAH SPARROWS, with a colony of EARED, WESTERN, and
CLARK’S GREBES. An adult BALD EAGLE was at Stubblefield. The sparrows and
grebes were still present on July 19, with five SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERs on
Stubblefield.
DC on July 9 in Yankee at the Yankee Canyon turnoff saw four LEWIS’S
WOODPCKERS.
At Sugarite State Park near Raton on July 9 BN, CR, and RV had a CATBIRD and
three ACORN WOODPECKERS. CR and RV found a singing OVENBIRD. DC saw four
ACORN WOODPECKERS at Lake Alice on July 12. At the Soda Pocket Campground on
July 12 there was five DUSKY FLYCATCHERs and a GOSHAWK for DC.
At Miami Lake on July 10 DC found a COMMON LOON. On NM 21 at mile marker 15
west of the lake there were a LEIS’S WOODPECKER and two CATBIRDS.
DC on July 2 saw again the two DICKCISSELS on NM 505 between mile posts 1
and 2.
In Springer DC found a BLACK PHOEBE at the Cimarron Rio Bridge on NM 21 ON
July 1.
At Eagle Nest Lake on July 1 DC had 30 COMMON MERGANSERS, a late SNOW GOOSE,
and WESTERN GREBES. There was a BLACK PHOEBE at the river bridge in
Cimarron.
In Union county:
CR in the area of Granville had around 18 MOUNTAIN PLOVERS, most in the
first five miles south of town.
In Cibola County:
CJG at the El Morro NM on July 9 had a SPOTTED SANDPIPER at the park sewage
ponds.
CJG at the Ice Caves on NM 53 reported many PINYON JAYS.
In Bernalillo County:
DP on July 17 had a CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD on the Sandia Crest Trail in the
mountains east of Albuquerque. He had a GOSHAWK adult also.
CW on July 9 saw two BURROWING OWLS on the north side of Tramway Road just
east of theSandia Casino.
JSt had a CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD male at his Northeast Heights feeder in
Albuquerque on July 16.
In Valencia County:
MaW reported a MISSISSIPPI KITE at the park at the Rio Grande in Los Luna.
In Guadalupe County”
JO on July 14 had a COMMON BLACK-HAWK and a CASSIN’S SPARROW at the Tres
Lagunas ponds just south of Santa Rosa.
In Socorro County:
MH, SWi, and CW on July 11 had a MARBLED GODWIT on the ponds north of the
east end of the middle two-way road.
JO on June 26 reported a singing CASSIN’S SPARROW in a field a quarter mile
from his home in Luis Lopez south of Socorro.
RR had a GRAY VIREO in the Box Canyon area west Socorro. On US 60 at mile
post 131.5 go north on a dirt road past the climbing cliffs and rest house
into the pinyons on the hill.
In Lincoln County:
CBr on July 9 at a campground at the Bonito Canyon Trailhead on NM 107 north
of Ruidoso had a calling SPOTTED OWL.
In Grant County:
JP and WW on July 17 had a male and a female ALLEN’S HUMMINGBIRD at JDM’s
banding station near Roberts Lake. They were photographed by DAZ. A pair of
Montezuma Quail wandered through her yard.
JP, WW, and HS on June 23 on Burro Peak south of Silver City had one adult
YELLOW-EYED JUNCO. CL on nearby Jack’s Peak in the Big Burros had on July 7
three of the juncos, a DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER, and an OLIVE WARBLER. They
were all within .3 of a mile from the top.
At the Gila Bird Farm MF and EW have had singing CASSIN’S SPARROWS in the
area.
JP, WW, and HS saw a DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER singing at the Cherry Creek
Campground. It was photographed by DAZ.
In Hidalgo County:
RH re-found an adult male BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER in the New Mexico part of
Guadalupe Canyon on July 9 at the 13th stream crossing 3.5 miles from the
entrance gate. (one must walk in). He also reported two GRAY HAWKS in the NM
part. At that time the stream was dry, but that may change. The canyon may
not be entirely safe if it is flooding. In the New Mexico part on June 24 JP
and WW had up to five VARIED BUNTINGS.
JP on July 8 reported a WHITE-TAILED KITE on US 80 south of Rodeo. MA on
July 10 on Gin Road near Rodeo 150 yards east of the junction with Stateline
Road.
On June 25 JP and WW owled Clanton Canyon, In the lower forest part there
was one ELF, and a LONG-EARED. In the campground there was two WHISKERED
SCREECH and two WHIPPOORWILLS.
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:
The waste treatment ponds in Deming have been closed for construction.
In Dona Ana County:
JZ and MS on July 5 at their home near Radium Spring had a male CALLIOPE
HUMMINGBIRD.
DG at his home northeast of Las Cruces had the COMMON GROUND-DOVE begin to
appear more often. He had a male CALLIOPE July 8-9. Three pairs of BURROWING
OWLS are east of his home.
In Otero County:
WW on July 11 in the Sacramento Mountains found PURPLE MARTINS and a pair of
THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS in a burn area southeast of Cloudcroft. It might be
a good idean to get a Lincoln NF map. He went down Scott Able Road. No sign
anymore for it, but a sign does say to Sacramento.off of Hwy. 63 near
Sunspot. The site is near an old 4-H camp on a logging dirt road. He hiked about
300 yards up from the camp for the woodpeckers. The martins were in Agua
Chiquita a half mile further and past a yellow cattle guard.
CBr on July 7 at the Holloman Lakes saw 200 each of AVOCETS and BLACK-NECKED
STILTS.
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo the "no access" signs are for hunters
only. The entire shore is open to birding. A board has been installed for
birders to list their sightings.
In Eddy County:
RD on July 18 had shorebirds on Brantly Lake including 33 AVOCETS, a
LONG-BILLED CURLEW, eight STILT SANDPIPERS, and a BLACK TERN.
SW in June found ELF OWLS in Last Chance Canyon of the Guadalupe Mts. near
Carlsbad.
INITIALS USED:
MA, Moez Ali; DB, Dan Battaglia; CBr, Charles and/or Chandra Britt; DC,
David Cleary; JDM, Joan Day-Martin; rd, Rob Doster; MF, Mike Fugagli: DG,
David Griffin; CJG, C.J. Grimes; MH, Michael Hilchey; RH, Rich Hoyer;
DK, David Krueper; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; BN, Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry
Oldenettel; DP. Danny Paez; BP, Ben Parmeter; JP, John Parmeter; RR, Robert
Royse; CR, Chris Rustay; JR, Janet Ruth; MS, Marcy Scott; HS, Heidi Simms;
JSt, James Stuart; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk; BV, Brad Vaughn; BW, Bill
West; SW. Steve West; MaW, Marjorie Williams; SWi, Sondra Williamson; WW,
Bill Wittman; CW. Cole Wolf; EW, Eleanor Wootten; JZ, Jimmy Zabriskie; DAZ,
Dale Zimmerman.
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. July 27 is to to Ponderosa in the Jemez Mts. with Rebecca Gracey.
The weekend of July 22-23 will be the Third Annual Hummingbirds of NM
Festival at Roberts Lake with banding by Joan Day-Martin, guided walks, and
educational talks. View schedules online at _www.hbnm.org_ (http://www.hbnm.org) or
call Joan at 1-888-536-4266.
On Saturday, July 29, Tom Taylor will lead a trip FOR Sangre de Crosto to
the Santa Fe Ski Basin. Contact Tom at 983-8260.
Southwestern, Central, and Mesilla Valley will have no summer trips.
- End transcript.