- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* September 4, 2005
* NMEX0509.04
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Great Egret (Colfax)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
Snow Goose (Socorro)
Wood Duck (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, Otero)
Harris's Hawk (Luna)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Otero)
Peregrine Falcon (Otero, Luna/Doņa Ana)
Chukar escapes (Sandoval)
Northern Bobwhite (DeBaca)
Marbled Godwit (Otero)
Wilson's Phalarope (Otero)
Red-necked Phalarope (Socorro)
Inca Dove (Curry)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Grant)
Blue-throated Hummingbird (Cibola)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Roosevelt)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Catron)
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Roosevelt)
Least Flycatcher (Roosevelt, Quay)
Willow Flycatcher (Luna)
Hammond's Flycatcher (Luna)
Vermilion Flycatcher (DeBaca)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Roosevelt)
GREATER KISKADEE (Lea)
Eastern Kingbird (Socorro)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Quay, Guadalupe)
Cassin's Vireo (Colfax, Sierra)
Red-eyed Vireo (Roosevelt)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (DeBaca)
Cactus Wren (Guadalupe)
Sage Thrasher (Cibola)
Crissal Thrasher (Socorro)
Cedar Waxwing (Catron)
Olive Warbler (Grant)
Nashville Warbler (Cibola)
HERMIT WARBLER (Grant)
Townsend's Warbler (Colfax, Quay)
American Redstart (Guadalupe, Lea)
Black-and-White Warbler (Roosevelt)
Northern Waterthrush (DeBaca, Socorro, Sandoval)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Quay)
Orchard Oriole (DeBaca, Roosevelt)
BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Roosevelt)
Pine Siskin (Doņa Ana)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: September 4, 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 4, 2005,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Roseate
Spoonbill.
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 Sandoval County:
MR on September 1 saw a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH in Bandelier Natl. Mon.
above the visitor center along the Rito Frijoles.
DP reported three CHUKARS in the Sundance Mesa part of Placitas on August
28-29.
In Colfax County:
DC had at the Tolby Campground east of Eagle Nest on August 28 a CASSIN'S
VIREO and three TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS.
At Stubblefield Lake DC on August 29 saw one COMMON LOON and one GREAT EGRET.
In Quay County:
CR on September 2 on NM 54 at the Texas line near Nara Visa saw a
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER and a LEAST FLYCATCHER. Four miles north of Logan he had a
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER. He found Tucumcari Lake was too full for shorebirds.
In Cibola County:
CJG and SB on September 3 had a good migration at El Morro Monument with
a NASHVILLE WARBLER and a SAGE THRASHER.
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.
In Guadalupe County:
CR and BN on September 3 at Power Dam Park in Santa Rosa along the river
past the sewer plant had two immature female AMERICAN REDSTARTS and five
CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS.
On I-40 at a playa near the San Ignacio exit (mile 263) there was a
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER and a CACTUS WREN.
In DeBaca County:
At the Bosque Redondo Park near Fort Sumner CL saw a RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCH in the park on September 1.
CL on September 1 saw a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Sumner Lake on the east
side of the river below the dam.
At the Fort Sumner sewage ponds on August 21 JNM and BW found 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:
CL at the migrant trap 11 miles west of Melrose on September 1 saw an
immature male ORCHARD ORIOLE. JO and CL on September 2 found a GREAT CRESTED
FLYCATCHER present. On September 4 MH, CR and BN reported probable female
BALTIMORE ORIOLE, a probable RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, and a singing EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE with three RED-EYED VIREOS, the Great Crested Flycatcher, and a LEAST
FLYCATCHER.
CL at Boone's Draw near Portales on September 2 had a BLACK-AND-WHITE
WARBLER.
In Curry County:
BW and JNM on August 21 in Clovis saw an INCA DOVE behind the Albertson's
store off Stratford Street.
In Socorro County:
JO at his home at Luis Lopez south of Socorro on September 3 had a
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH and an INDIGO BUNTING. There was a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at a
wet spot along the Farm-to-Market road just east of Luis Lopez with an EASTERN
KINGBIRD by the railroad tracks a half mile east of town.
On Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio 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 on September 3.
In Sierra County:
CL on August 30 had a CASSIN'S VIREO at Percha State Park.
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.
JH had an OSPREY at Quemado Lake on August 23.
In Grant County:
On August 10 CL at Signal Peak in the mountains north of Pinos Altos saw
on the road up to the peak two OLIVE WARBLERS, and (with CB) a PYGMY OWL. JP
found one HERMIT WARBLER on August 19.
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 at his Deming home a HARRIS'S HAWK on August 23.
In Doņa Ana County:
DG at his home north of Las Cruces has had two PINE SISKINS on August 24.
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. CL on August
24 saw many WILSON'S PHALAROPES, a PEREGINE and an OSPREY. He found the
Peregrine and a MARBLED GODWIT on September 3.
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:
SW reports there are ELF OWLS in the Guadalupe Mts. at Dark Canyon, Rocky
Arroyo, and Last Chance Canyon.
In Lea County:
CL at the sewage ponds in Tatum on September 2 had an AMERICAN REDSTART.
A report came from PM that 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: SB, Sarah Beckwith; CB, Celestyn Brozek; TB, Trudy Buck;
DC, David Cleary; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C. J. Grimes; JH, Joan Hardie; MH,
Michael Hilchey; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; PM, Pat McCasland;
JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; BN, Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JP, John
Parmeter; DP, Deb Pascuzzi; MR, Mary Ristow; CR, Chris Rustay; JS, John
Shipman; GW, Gordon Warrick; BW, Bill West; SW, Steve 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. 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 4, 2005
* NMEX0509.04
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Great Egret (Colfax)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
Snow Goose (Socorro)
Wood Duck (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, Otero)
Harris's Hawk (Luna)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Otero)
Peregrine Falcon (Otero, Luna/Doņa Ana)
Chukar escapes (Sandoval)
Northern Bobwhite (DeBaca)
Marbled Godwit (Otero)
Wilson's Phalarope (Otero)
Red-necked Phalarope (Socorro)
Inca Dove (Curry)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Grant)
Blue-throated Hummingbird (Cibola)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Roosevelt)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Catron)
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Roosevelt)
Least Flycatcher (Roosevelt, Quay)
Willow Flycatcher (Luna)
Hammond's Flycatcher (Luna)
Vermilion Flycatcher (DeBaca)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Roosevelt)
GREATER KISKADEE (Lea)
Eastern Kingbird (Socorro)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Quay, Guadalupe)
Cassin's Vireo (Colfax, Sierra)
Red-eyed Vireo (Roosevelt)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (DeBaca)
Cactus Wren (Guadalupe)
Sage Thrasher (Cibola)
Crissal Thrasher (Socorro)
Cedar Waxwing (Catron)
Olive Warbler (Grant)
Nashville Warbler (Cibola)
HERMIT WARBLER (Grant)
Townsend's Warbler (Colfax, Quay)
American Redstart (Guadalupe, Lea)
Black-and-White Warbler (Roosevelt)
Northern Waterthrush (DeBaca, Socorro, Sandoval)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Quay)
Orchard Oriole (DeBaca, Roosevelt)
BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Roosevelt)
Pine Siskin (Doņa Ana)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: September 4, 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 4, 2005,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Roseate
Spoonbill.
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 Sandoval County:
MR on September 1 saw a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH in Bandelier Natl. Mon.
above the visitor center along the Rito Frijoles.
DP reported three CHUKARS in the Sundance Mesa part of Placitas on August
28-29.
In Colfax County:
DC had at the Tolby Campground east of Eagle Nest on August 28 a CASSIN'S
VIREO and three TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS.
At Stubblefield Lake DC on August 29 saw one COMMON LOON and one GREAT EGRET.
In Quay County:
CR on September 2 on NM 54 at the Texas line near Nara Visa saw a
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER and a LEAST FLYCATCHER. Four miles north of Logan he had a
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER. He found Tucumcari Lake was too full for shorebirds.
In Cibola County:
CJG and SB on September 3 had a good migration at El Morro Monument with
a NASHVILLE WARBLER and a SAGE THRASHER.
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.
In Guadalupe County:
CR and BN on September 3 at Power Dam Park in Santa Rosa along the river
past the sewer plant had two immature female AMERICAN REDSTARTS and five
CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS.
On I-40 at a playa near the San Ignacio exit (mile 263) there was a
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER and a CACTUS WREN.
In DeBaca County:
At the Bosque Redondo Park near Fort Sumner CL saw a RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCH in the park on September 1.
CL on September 1 saw a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Sumner Lake on the east
side of the river below the dam.
At the Fort Sumner sewage ponds on August 21 JNM and BW found 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:
CL at the migrant trap 11 miles west of Melrose on September 1 saw an
immature male ORCHARD ORIOLE. JO and CL on September 2 found a GREAT CRESTED
FLYCATCHER present. On September 4 MH, CR and BN reported probable female
BALTIMORE ORIOLE, a probable RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, and a singing EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE with three RED-EYED VIREOS, the Great Crested Flycatcher, and a LEAST
FLYCATCHER.
CL at Boone's Draw near Portales on September 2 had a BLACK-AND-WHITE
WARBLER.
In Curry County:
BW and JNM on August 21 in Clovis saw an INCA DOVE behind the Albertson's
store off Stratford Street.
In Socorro County:
JO at his home at Luis Lopez south of Socorro on September 3 had a
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH and an INDIGO BUNTING. There was a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at a
wet spot along the Farm-to-Market road just east of Luis Lopez with an EASTERN
KINGBIRD by the railroad tracks a half mile east of town.
On Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio 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 on September 3.
In Sierra County:
CL on August 30 had a CASSIN'S VIREO at Percha State Park.
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.
JH had an OSPREY at Quemado Lake on August 23.
In Grant County:
On August 10 CL at Signal Peak in the mountains north of Pinos Altos saw
on the road up to the peak two OLIVE WARBLERS, and (with CB) a PYGMY OWL. JP
found one HERMIT WARBLER on August 19.
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 at his Deming home a HARRIS'S HAWK on August 23.
In Doņa Ana County:
DG at his home north of Las Cruces has had two PINE SISKINS on August 24.
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. CL on August
24 saw many WILSON'S PHALAROPES, a PEREGINE and an OSPREY. He found the
Peregrine and a MARBLED GODWIT on September 3.
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:
SW reports there are ELF OWLS in the Guadalupe Mts. at Dark Canyon, Rocky
Arroyo, and Last Chance Canyon.
In Lea County:
CL at the sewage ponds in Tatum on September 2 had an AMERICAN REDSTART.
A report came from PM that 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: SB, Sarah Beckwith; CB, Celestyn Brozek; TB, Trudy Buck;
DC, David Cleary; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C. J. Grimes; JH, Joan Hardie; MH,
Michael Hilchey; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; PM, Pat McCasland;
JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; BN, Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JP, John
Parmeter; DP, Deb Pascuzzi; MR, Mary Ristow; CR, Chris Rustay; JS, John
Shipman; GW, Gordon Warrick; BW, Bill West; SW, Steve 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. 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