- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* August 14, 2006
* NMEX0608.14
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Eared, Western and Clark’s Grebes (Colfax)
Great Blue Heron and Snowy Egret (Doña Ana)
Great Egret (Sierra)
Reddish Egret (Eddy)
Cattle Egret (Valencia)
Black-crowned Night and Green Herons (Doña Ana)
White-tailed Kite (Hidalgo)
Wild Turkey (San Miguel)
Gray Hawks (Hidalgo)
Montezuma Quail (Catron)
Black-necked Stilt (Otero)
Upland Sandpiper (Sierra0
Long-billed Curlew (Sierra)
American Avocet (Otero)
Baird’s and Stilt Sandpipers (Otero)
Franklin’s and California Gull (Sierra)
Black Tern (Otero, Eddy,
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Magnificent Hummingbird (Catron)
LUCIFER’S HUMMINGBIRD (Hidalgo)
Three-toed Woodpecker (Los Alamos, Catron)
Greater Pewee (Doña Ana)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Doña Ana)
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Sierra)
BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER (Hidalgo)
Red-faced Warbler (Catron)
Botteri’s Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Lark Bunting (Colfax, Otero)
Savannah Sparrow (Colfax)
Indigo Bunting (Grant)
Lazuli Bunting (Sierra)
Painted Bunting (Hidalgo, Socorro, Otero)
Dickcissel (Colfax)
Orchard Oriole (Doña Ana)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: August 14, 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 August 14, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights: Black-capped
Gnatcatchers, Reddish Egret.
The recent rains have been needed, but have brought muddy roads with rocks,
washouts and raging streams, totally unsafe to cross.
US Fish and Wildlife released 11 captive NORTHERN APLOMADO FALCONS on the
Armendariz Ranch (of parrot fame) on August 3.
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, though a second
number may be added soon. 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 Los Alamos County:
DB saw four THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS at the Apache Springs area of the
Bandelier NM on July 9 west of Los Alamos on NM 4.
In San Miguel County:
LD on August 12 on the Mineral Hill road near Las Vegas had six WILD TURKEYS.
In Colfax County:
On Miami Lake July 28 DC found the COMMON LOON still present.
DC had two DICKCISSELS between the two ranch homes on Hwy. A1 with LARK
BUNTINGS on the Maxwell Refuge. Around Laguna Madre (north of Stubblefield)
there was three SAVANNAH SPARROWS, with a colony of EARED, WESTERN, and CLARK’S
GREBES.
In Valencia County:
WW on August 7 found that rains have flooded the road farther from the marsh
behind the Taco Bell in Belen. He found an amazing 135 CATTLE EGRETS there.
In Socorro County:
CL on August 3 at Bosque del Apache Refuge south of San Antonio had a pair
of PAINTED BUNTINGS near the EXIT sign at the visitor center parking lot.
In Sierra County:
JP found good shorebird habitat at South Monticello Point at Elephant Butte
Lake. On August 12 he and WW found two adult CALIFORNIA GULLS at Three
Sisters Point and at South Monticello two flyover UPLAND SANDPIPERS, two FRANKLIN’
S GULLS, and a LONG-BILLED CURLEW with a count of 40 GREAT EGRETS in the
area. There was a BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER at South Highlands Point.
At Paseo del Rio Park below the dam there was a LAZULI BUNTING.
In Catron County:
JD on August 10 found a RED-FACED WARBLER on the JH ranch east of Datil.
CL found the road into the Snow Lake and Willow Creek areas east of Mogollon
was closed after the recent Bear Fire. At a primitive camp site where NM
159 is closed he had two to three THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS. The site is 22.1
miles east of US 180.
On July 22-23 he found MONTEZUMA QUAIL on the edge of Mogollon. At feeders
in the town there were a female MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRD.
CBr found the road into Whitewater Canyon at Glenwood was a bit of a problem.
In Grant County:
CBr on August 5 had four INDIGO BUNTINGS at the Gila Bird Farm near Cliff.
In Hidalgo County:
CL reported a male LUCIFER’S HUMMINGBIRD on August 5 in Clanton Canyon .15
mile below Geronima Pass at the top. (The wast side is actually Cottonwood
Canyon). And on August 6 he saw a female Lucifer’s at the same site.
The BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER nest in the New Mexico part of Guadalupe Canyon
fledged young. CR and MH on August 6 reported a family group near the
orchard. The canyon can be ‘fun’ in floods, so be careful. BW and JNM on August
2 found each crossing knee deep in water. On August 8 RV, SNC, and CW found
the family of five gnatcatchers in the stream bed at the orchard. There were
two or three adult GRAY HAWKS present.
At Dunagan’s Crossing on Co. 1 south of Animas WW and WK saw a GRAY HAWK and
a BOTTERI’S SPARROW. BW and JNM on August 1 had two singing Botteri’s.
On July 29 CL found on Stateline Road two BOTTERI’S SPARROWS, one on each
side of the state line. CL on August 3 had an adult male bunting with two ‘
green’ ones on the Arizona side of Stateline Road. The road is sloppy but
passable. JP, JO, and WW had the buntings on August 5 in a row of trees just
north of Rodeo. They also found the WHITE-TAILED KITE a mils south of Rodeo
along US 80.
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 and
birding till further notice.
In Doña Ana County:
CL on August 9 had a concentration of herons on the sandbars at the Mesilla
Dam with 10 BLACK-CROWNED, five GREAT BLUES, a GREEN, and a SNOWY EGRET. On
August 5 CBr had a male VERMILION FLYCATCHER at the dam.
JZ and MS on August 1 had a calling GREATER PEWEE in their yard in Radium
Springs, photographed. They had a male ORCHARD ORIOLE on August 4.
In Otero County:
CL and CBr found good shorebird habitat at the Holloman Lakes with dozens of
AVOCETS AND BLACK-NECKED STILTS. DB on August 5 found thick mud barring the
way to Lagoon G, but saw a male PAINTED BUNTING, eight BLACK TERNS, a STILT
SANDPIPER, and many BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS.
DG on Otero Mesa on July 22 had many returning LARK BUNTINGS in flocks of up
to 30. On July 25 he again found many Lark Buntings still in black plumage.
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 August 2 had an immature REDDISH EGRET at the northwest corner of
Brantley Lake near the large mud flat. WW found the egret on August 8 hiding in
reeds at the northern end. Signs there say “Keep out Habitat Restoration.”
He saw nine BLACK TERNS near Cheapskate Point.
SW found ELF OWLS in Last Chance Canyon of the Guadalupe Mts. near Carlsbad.
INITIALS USED:
DB, Dan Battaglia; CBr, Charles and/or Chandra Britt; DC, David Cleary;
SNC, Steve and Nancy Cox, LD, Lyn Dominguez; RD, Rob Doster; JD, John Dunn,
DG, David Griffin; JH, Joan Hardie; MH, Michael Hilchey; WK, Woody Kuehn;
CL, Carl Lundblad; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JP,
John Parmeter; CR, Chris Rustay; MS, Marcy Scott; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk;
BW, Bill West; SW. Steve West; WW, Bill Wittman; CW, Cole Wolf; 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. August 17 to Bosque del Apache with Pat Franklin-Henden, and August 24
to Sulfur and Cienega Canyons in the eastern Sandias with Sally Burke.
Finally on August 31 to the Belen (Taco Bell) Marsh) with Rebecca Gracey.
Sangre de Cristo on Saturday, August 19, will do the strenuous three-hour
hike up to the Santa Barbara Ridge at 12,000 feet below Jicarita Peak for the
White-tailed Ptarmigans and other high altitude species. Contact is Jim
Pausel at 501-4085 or _titus@photocorral.com_ (mailto:titus@photocorral.com) .
Central Audubon will have a three-day trip on August 25 to 27 to
southwestern New Mexico including Percha Dam and Caballo Lake, Roberts Lake, the Grey
Feathers Lodge, Cherry Creek and the Gila River, Glenwood Catwalk, and return.
Call Sei Tokuda for details at 266-2480.
Mesilla Valley on Saturday, August 26, will have a trip to Bosque del Apache
Refuge for migrants. Call Walt Whitford at 521-1358.
End transcript.
* New Mexico Bird Report
* August 14, 2006
* NMEX0608.14
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Eared, Western and Clark’s Grebes (Colfax)
Great Blue Heron and Snowy Egret (Doña Ana)
Great Egret (Sierra)
Reddish Egret (Eddy)
Cattle Egret (Valencia)
Black-crowned Night and Green Herons (Doña Ana)
White-tailed Kite (Hidalgo)
Wild Turkey (San Miguel)
Gray Hawks (Hidalgo)
Montezuma Quail (Catron)
Black-necked Stilt (Otero)
Upland Sandpiper (Sierra0
Long-billed Curlew (Sierra)
American Avocet (Otero)
Baird’s and Stilt Sandpipers (Otero)
Franklin’s and California Gull (Sierra)
Black Tern (Otero, Eddy,
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Magnificent Hummingbird (Catron)
LUCIFER’S HUMMINGBIRD (Hidalgo)
Three-toed Woodpecker (Los Alamos, Catron)
Greater Pewee (Doña Ana)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Doña Ana)
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Sierra)
BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER (Hidalgo)
Red-faced Warbler (Catron)
Botteri’s Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Lark Bunting (Colfax, Otero)
Savannah Sparrow (Colfax)
Indigo Bunting (Grant)
Lazuli Bunting (Sierra)
Painted Bunting (Hidalgo, Socorro, Otero)
Dickcissel (Colfax)
Orchard Oriole (Doña Ana)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: August 14, 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 August 14, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights: Black-capped
Gnatcatchers, Reddish Egret.
The recent rains have been needed, but have brought muddy roads with rocks,
washouts and raging streams, totally unsafe to cross.
US Fish and Wildlife released 11 captive NORTHERN APLOMADO FALCONS on the
Armendariz Ranch (of parrot fame) on August 3.
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, though a second
number may be added soon. 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 Los Alamos County:
DB saw four THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS at the Apache Springs area of the
Bandelier NM on July 9 west of Los Alamos on NM 4.
In San Miguel County:
LD on August 12 on the Mineral Hill road near Las Vegas had six WILD TURKEYS.
In Colfax County:
On Miami Lake July 28 DC found the COMMON LOON still present.
DC had two DICKCISSELS between the two ranch homes on Hwy. A1 with LARK
BUNTINGS on the Maxwell Refuge. Around Laguna Madre (north of Stubblefield)
there was three SAVANNAH SPARROWS, with a colony of EARED, WESTERN, and CLARK’S
GREBES.
In Valencia County:
WW on August 7 found that rains have flooded the road farther from the marsh
behind the Taco Bell in Belen. He found an amazing 135 CATTLE EGRETS there.
In Socorro County:
CL on August 3 at Bosque del Apache Refuge south of San Antonio had a pair
of PAINTED BUNTINGS near the EXIT sign at the visitor center parking lot.
In Sierra County:
JP found good shorebird habitat at South Monticello Point at Elephant Butte
Lake. On August 12 he and WW found two adult CALIFORNIA GULLS at Three
Sisters Point and at South Monticello two flyover UPLAND SANDPIPERS, two FRANKLIN’
S GULLS, and a LONG-BILLED CURLEW with a count of 40 GREAT EGRETS in the
area. There was a BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER at South Highlands Point.
At Paseo del Rio Park below the dam there was a LAZULI BUNTING.
In Catron County:
JD on August 10 found a RED-FACED WARBLER on the JH ranch east of Datil.
CL found the road into the Snow Lake and Willow Creek areas east of Mogollon
was closed after the recent Bear Fire. At a primitive camp site where NM
159 is closed he had two to three THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS. The site is 22.1
miles east of US 180.
On July 22-23 he found MONTEZUMA QUAIL on the edge of Mogollon. At feeders
in the town there were a female MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRD.
CBr found the road into Whitewater Canyon at Glenwood was a bit of a problem.
In Grant County:
CBr on August 5 had four INDIGO BUNTINGS at the Gila Bird Farm near Cliff.
In Hidalgo County:
CL reported a male LUCIFER’S HUMMINGBIRD on August 5 in Clanton Canyon .15
mile below Geronima Pass at the top. (The wast side is actually Cottonwood
Canyon). And on August 6 he saw a female Lucifer’s at the same site.
The BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER nest in the New Mexico part of Guadalupe Canyon
fledged young. CR and MH on August 6 reported a family group near the
orchard. The canyon can be ‘fun’ in floods, so be careful. BW and JNM on August
2 found each crossing knee deep in water. On August 8 RV, SNC, and CW found
the family of five gnatcatchers in the stream bed at the orchard. There were
two or three adult GRAY HAWKS present.
At Dunagan’s Crossing on Co. 1 south of Animas WW and WK saw a GRAY HAWK and
a BOTTERI’S SPARROW. BW and JNM on August 1 had two singing Botteri’s.
On July 29 CL found on Stateline Road two BOTTERI’S SPARROWS, one on each
side of the state line. CL on August 3 had an adult male bunting with two ‘
green’ ones on the Arizona side of Stateline Road. The road is sloppy but
passable. JP, JO, and WW had the buntings on August 5 in a row of trees just
north of Rodeo. They also found the WHITE-TAILED KITE a mils south of Rodeo
along US 80.
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 and
birding till further notice.
In Doña Ana County:
CL on August 9 had a concentration of herons on the sandbars at the Mesilla
Dam with 10 BLACK-CROWNED, five GREAT BLUES, a GREEN, and a SNOWY EGRET. On
August 5 CBr had a male VERMILION FLYCATCHER at the dam.
JZ and MS on August 1 had a calling GREATER PEWEE in their yard in Radium
Springs, photographed. They had a male ORCHARD ORIOLE on August 4.
In Otero County:
CL and CBr found good shorebird habitat at the Holloman Lakes with dozens of
AVOCETS AND BLACK-NECKED STILTS. DB on August 5 found thick mud barring the
way to Lagoon G, but saw a male PAINTED BUNTING, eight BLACK TERNS, a STILT
SANDPIPER, and many BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS.
DG on Otero Mesa on July 22 had many returning LARK BUNTINGS in flocks of up
to 30. On July 25 he again found many Lark Buntings still in black plumage.
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 August 2 had an immature REDDISH EGRET at the northwest corner of
Brantley Lake near the large mud flat. WW found the egret on August 8 hiding in
reeds at the northern end. Signs there say “Keep out Habitat Restoration.”
He saw nine BLACK TERNS near Cheapskate Point.
SW found ELF OWLS in Last Chance Canyon of the Guadalupe Mts. near Carlsbad.
INITIALS USED:
DB, Dan Battaglia; CBr, Charles and/or Chandra Britt; DC, David Cleary;
SNC, Steve and Nancy Cox, LD, Lyn Dominguez; RD, Rob Doster; JD, John Dunn,
DG, David Griffin; JH, Joan Hardie; MH, Michael Hilchey; WK, Woody Kuehn;
CL, Carl Lundblad; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JP,
John Parmeter; CR, Chris Rustay; MS, Marcy Scott; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk;
BW, Bill West; SW. Steve West; WW, Bill Wittman; CW, Cole Wolf; 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. August 17 to Bosque del Apache with Pat Franklin-Henden, and August 24
to Sulfur and Cienega Canyons in the eastern Sandias with Sally Burke.
Finally on August 31 to the Belen (Taco Bell) Marsh) with Rebecca Gracey.
Sangre de Cristo on Saturday, August 19, will do the strenuous three-hour
hike up to the Santa Barbara Ridge at 12,000 feet below Jicarita Peak for the
White-tailed Ptarmigans and other high altitude species. Contact is Jim
Pausel at 501-4085 or _titus@photocorral.com_ (mailto:titus@photocorral.com) .
Central Audubon will have a three-day trip on August 25 to 27 to
southwestern New Mexico including Percha Dam and Caballo Lake, Roberts Lake, the Grey
Feathers Lodge, Cherry Creek and the Gila River, Glenwood Catwalk, and return.
Call Sei Tokuda for details at 266-2480.
Mesilla Valley on Saturday, August 26, will have a trip to Bosque del Apache
Refuge for migrants. Call Walt Whitford at 521-1358.
End transcript.