- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* September 6, 2005
* NMEX0509.06
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Great Egret (Colfax, Curry)
Green Heron (Bernalillo)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
Snow Goose and Wood Duck (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, Socorro)
Harris's Hawk (Luna)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Otero)
Peregrine Falcon (Otero, Luna/Doņa Ana)
Blue Grouse (Sandoval)
Northern Bobwhite (DeBaca)
Virginia Rail (Lea)
Upland Sandpiper (Eddy)
Marbled Godwit (Otero)
Solitary and Pectoral Sandpipers (Roosevelt)
Semipalmated and Stilt Sandpipers (Roosevelt)
Wilson's Snipe (Roosevelt)
Wilson's Phalarope (Otero)
Red-necked Phalarope (Socorro, Cibola, Torrance, Colfax)
Black Tern (Socorro, Curry)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Roosevelt)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Catron)
Downy Woodpecker (Grant)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Bernalillo)
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Roosevelt)
Least Flycatcher (Roosevelt, Quay)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Eddy, Luna)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Roosevelt)
Eastern Kingbird (Socorro, Bernalillo, Lea)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Quay, Guadalupe, Lea)
Gray Vireo (Bernalillo)
Cassin's Vireo (Colfax, Sierra, Luna, Bernalillo)
Red-eyed Vireo (Roosevelt, Eddy)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (DeBaca)
White-breasted Nuthatch (Luna)
Cactus Wren (Guadalupe)
Carolina Wren (Bernalillo)
Gray Catbird (Socorro)
Crissal Thrasher (Socorro)
Cedar Waxwing (Catron)
Nashville Warbler (Cibola, Roosevelt, Grant)
Townsend's Warbler (Quay, Roosevelt)
American Redstart (Guadalupe, Lea, Sierra)
Black-and-White Warbler (Roosevelt)
Northern Waterthrush (DeBaca, Socorro, Eddy)
Wilson's Warbler (Sierra)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Roosevelt. Guadalupe, Otero)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro)
Painted Bunting (Eddy)
Dickcissel (Doņa Ana, Eddy, Roosevelt)
BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Roosevelt)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: September 6, 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 6, 2005,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Roseate
Spoonbill, Baltimore Oriole, Carolina Wren.
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:
UM had a family of BLUE GROUSE on the Dome Road in the Jemez Mts. west of
Los Alamos on September 5.
In Colfax County:
JB on September 4 at Lake !4 of the Maxwell Refuge had a RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE.
DC had at the Tolby Campground east of Eagle Nest on August 28 a CASSIN'S
VIREO.
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 with a
NASHVILLE WARBLER. On September 4 at sunset he had an immature RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
at the monument's sewage ponds.
In Bernalillo County:
DH on September 4 had a singing CAROLINA WREN on the Bill Spring Trail in
the Sandia Mts. about 3/4 mile up the trail from the Doc Long Picnic Area.
On September 4 BL saw an EASTERN KINGBIRD at the Rio Grande Nature Center
in Albuquerque by the river. Also present were two GREEN HERONS. JB saw the
kingbird on September 3 at the north end of the bosque trail between the
canal and the rio.
JJ on September 4 saw another EASTERN KINGBIRD at the Shady Lakes Trout
Farm near Corrales and on September 5 about four CASSIN'S VIREOS on Sandia
Crest.
NC reports that a GRAY VIREO and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW were banded at
the center on September 3. JP saw the vireo.
BV on September 4 had an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER at the Alameda Bridge and
a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at the Los Poblanos Open Space on Montaņo Street.
Later there was an Olive-sided at his home.
In Torrance County:
JO had a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at the Mountainair sewage ponds on
September 4. It was seen by JP and WW on September 5.
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.
In the area of the Fort Sumner sewage ponds on August 21 JNM and BW saw two
families of 15 each of BOBWHITE.
In Roosevelt County:
At the migrant trap 11 miles west of Melrose JO and CL on September 2
found a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER. On September 4 MH, CR and BN reported a
BALTIMORE ORIOLE, a probable RUBY-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD, and a singing EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE with three RED-EYED VIREOS, the Great Crested Flycatcher, and a LEAST
FLYCATCHER. Later in the day JP, WW, SSA, and JO reported the crested
flycatcher, one vireo, the eastern pewee, up to three TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, and the
immature male Baltimore Oriole. SSA also had a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER on the 4th
with a NASHVILLE WARBLER on September 5. JP had a DICKCISSEL on September 5.
Two miles south of Dora at a playa BN and CR on September 4 reported ten
species of shorebirds, with a SEMIPALMATED, STILT, SOLITARY, and PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, and several SNIPE.
CL at Boone's Draw near Portales on September 2 had a BLACK-AND-WHITE
WARBLER.
In Curry County:
At the Clovis sewage ponds on September 4 CR and BN had BLACK TERNS and a
GREAT EGRET.
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. There were two
waterthrushes at his home on September 4.
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. On September 5 he found three BLACK TERNS and a
CATBIRD where the Seasonal Road's eastbound leg turns north.
CL on August 30 had a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU
campus in Socorro.
CR and BN on September 5 saw an OSPREY a mile east of Bingham.
In Chaves County:
CL again had the ROSEATE SPOONBILL at Bitter Lake Refuge on September 3.
SSA and MLA did not report it on September 4.
In Sierra County:
CL on August 30 had a CASSIN'S VIREO at Percha State Park. BW on
September 5 found the vireo, an immature female AMERICAN REDSTART, up to 80 WILSON'S
WARBLERS, and two CAVE SWALLOWS. CL the same day had three redstarts and a
greed there were lots of warblers.
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:
DJ at the Gila Hot Springs in the Pinos Altos Mts. had a male DOWNY
WOODPECKER and NASHVILLE WARBLER on September 4.
In Luna County:
CL on September 5 at Pancho Villa Park near Columbus saw a BELL'S VIREO
and BELTED KINGFISHER, with a fly-over OSPREY and night heron.
At Katfish Kove near the City of Rocks park on September 5 CL had a
KASSIN'S (o.k. Cassin's) VIREO, WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH, and three VERMILION
FLYCATCHERS.
TB on August 29 saw a PEREGRINE FALCON on a pole in NM 26 west of Hatch
at the Luna/Doņa Ana Co. line.
LM had at his Deming home a HARRIS'S HAWK on August 23.
In Doņa Ana County:
DG had at least one female DICKCISSEL in his yard north of Las Cruces on
September 3.
In Otero County:
BN and CR on September 5 had CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS in fields near the
Indigo Lizard shop at the Three Rivers turnoff.
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. He had 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.
In Eddy County:
At Rattlesnake Springs on September 5 CR and BN found a RED-EYED VIREO,
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and DICKCISSELS, with a few PAINTED BUNTINGS and two
VERMILION FLYCATCHERS still present.
And they had one UPLAND SANDPIPER in the hay fields near Loving.
SW reports there are ELF OWLS in the Guadalupe Mts. at Dark Canyon, Rocky
Arroyo, and Last Chance Canyon.
In Lea County:
BN and CR on September 5 had an amazing 137 SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHERS in
a flock at mile marker 150 ten to 12 miles east of Maljamar !
CL at the sewage ponds in Tatum on September 2 had an AMERICAN REDSTART.
BN and CR on September 4 at the ponds saw two EASTERN KINGBIRDS, a VIRGINIA
RAIL, and a family of SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHERS.
Initials Used:
MLA, Mary Lou Arthur; JB, Jonathan Batkin; SB, Sarah Beckwith; TB, Trudy
Buck; DC, David Cleary; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C. J. Grimes; JH, Joan
Hardie; DH, David Hawksworth; MH, Michael Hilchey; DJ, Doug Jenness; JJ, Jim
Joseph; BL, Bob Lewis; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; UM, Ursula
Mertens; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; BN, Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JP,
John Parmeter; CR, Chris Rustay; SSA, Sonia Santa Anna; JS, John Shipman;
BV, Brad Vaughn; 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 6, 2005
* NMEX0509.06
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Great Egret (Colfax, Curry)
Green Heron (Bernalillo)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
Snow Goose and Wood Duck (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, Socorro)
Harris's Hawk (Luna)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Otero)
Peregrine Falcon (Otero, Luna/Doņa Ana)
Blue Grouse (Sandoval)
Northern Bobwhite (DeBaca)
Virginia Rail (Lea)
Upland Sandpiper (Eddy)
Marbled Godwit (Otero)
Solitary and Pectoral Sandpipers (Roosevelt)
Semipalmated and Stilt Sandpipers (Roosevelt)
Wilson's Snipe (Roosevelt)
Wilson's Phalarope (Otero)
Red-necked Phalarope (Socorro, Cibola, Torrance, Colfax)
Black Tern (Socorro, Curry)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Roosevelt)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Catron)
Downy Woodpecker (Grant)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Bernalillo)
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Roosevelt)
Least Flycatcher (Roosevelt, Quay)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Eddy, Luna)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Roosevelt)
Eastern Kingbird (Socorro, Bernalillo, Lea)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Quay, Guadalupe, Lea)
Gray Vireo (Bernalillo)
Cassin's Vireo (Colfax, Sierra, Luna, Bernalillo)
Red-eyed Vireo (Roosevelt, Eddy)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (DeBaca)
White-breasted Nuthatch (Luna)
Cactus Wren (Guadalupe)
Carolina Wren (Bernalillo)
Gray Catbird (Socorro)
Crissal Thrasher (Socorro)
Cedar Waxwing (Catron)
Nashville Warbler (Cibola, Roosevelt, Grant)
Townsend's Warbler (Quay, Roosevelt)
American Redstart (Guadalupe, Lea, Sierra)
Black-and-White Warbler (Roosevelt)
Northern Waterthrush (DeBaca, Socorro, Eddy)
Wilson's Warbler (Sierra)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Roosevelt. Guadalupe, Otero)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro)
Painted Bunting (Eddy)
Dickcissel (Doņa Ana, Eddy, Roosevelt)
BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Roosevelt)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: September 6, 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 6, 2005,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Roseate
Spoonbill, Baltimore Oriole, Carolina Wren.
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:
UM had a family of BLUE GROUSE on the Dome Road in the Jemez Mts. west of
Los Alamos on September 5.
In Colfax County:
JB on September 4 at Lake !4 of the Maxwell Refuge had a RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE.
DC had at the Tolby Campground east of Eagle Nest on August 28 a CASSIN'S
VIREO.
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 with a
NASHVILLE WARBLER. On September 4 at sunset he had an immature RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
at the monument's sewage ponds.
In Bernalillo County:
DH on September 4 had a singing CAROLINA WREN on the Bill Spring Trail in
the Sandia Mts. about 3/4 mile up the trail from the Doc Long Picnic Area.
On September 4 BL saw an EASTERN KINGBIRD at the Rio Grande Nature Center
in Albuquerque by the river. Also present were two GREEN HERONS. JB saw the
kingbird on September 3 at the north end of the bosque trail between the
canal and the rio.
JJ on September 4 saw another EASTERN KINGBIRD at the Shady Lakes Trout
Farm near Corrales and on September 5 about four CASSIN'S VIREOS on Sandia
Crest.
NC reports that a GRAY VIREO and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW were banded at
the center on September 3. JP saw the vireo.
BV on September 4 had an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER at the Alameda Bridge and
a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at the Los Poblanos Open Space on Montaņo Street.
Later there was an Olive-sided at his home.
In Torrance County:
JO had a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at the Mountainair sewage ponds on
September 4. It was seen by JP and WW on September 5.
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.
In the area of the Fort Sumner sewage ponds on August 21 JNM and BW saw two
families of 15 each of BOBWHITE.
In Roosevelt County:
At the migrant trap 11 miles west of Melrose JO and CL on September 2
found a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER. On September 4 MH, CR and BN reported a
BALTIMORE ORIOLE, a probable RUBY-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD, and a singing EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE with three RED-EYED VIREOS, the Great Crested Flycatcher, and a LEAST
FLYCATCHER. Later in the day JP, WW, SSA, and JO reported the crested
flycatcher, one vireo, the eastern pewee, up to three TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, and the
immature male Baltimore Oriole. SSA also had a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER on the 4th
with a NASHVILLE WARBLER on September 5. JP had a DICKCISSEL on September 5.
Two miles south of Dora at a playa BN and CR on September 4 reported ten
species of shorebirds, with a SEMIPALMATED, STILT, SOLITARY, and PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, and several SNIPE.
CL at Boone's Draw near Portales on September 2 had a BLACK-AND-WHITE
WARBLER.
In Curry County:
At the Clovis sewage ponds on September 4 CR and BN had BLACK TERNS and a
GREAT EGRET.
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. There were two
waterthrushes at his home on September 4.
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. On September 5 he found three BLACK TERNS and a
CATBIRD where the Seasonal Road's eastbound leg turns north.
CL on August 30 had a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU
campus in Socorro.
CR and BN on September 5 saw an OSPREY a mile east of Bingham.
In Chaves County:
CL again had the ROSEATE SPOONBILL at Bitter Lake Refuge on September 3.
SSA and MLA did not report it on September 4.
In Sierra County:
CL on August 30 had a CASSIN'S VIREO at Percha State Park. BW on
September 5 found the vireo, an immature female AMERICAN REDSTART, up to 80 WILSON'S
WARBLERS, and two CAVE SWALLOWS. CL the same day had three redstarts and a
greed there were lots of warblers.
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:
DJ at the Gila Hot Springs in the Pinos Altos Mts. had a male DOWNY
WOODPECKER and NASHVILLE WARBLER on September 4.
In Luna County:
CL on September 5 at Pancho Villa Park near Columbus saw a BELL'S VIREO
and BELTED KINGFISHER, with a fly-over OSPREY and night heron.
At Katfish Kove near the City of Rocks park on September 5 CL had a
KASSIN'S (o.k. Cassin's) VIREO, WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH, and three VERMILION
FLYCATCHERS.
TB on August 29 saw a PEREGRINE FALCON on a pole in NM 26 west of Hatch
at the Luna/Doņa Ana Co. line.
LM had at his Deming home a HARRIS'S HAWK on August 23.
In Doņa Ana County:
DG had at least one female DICKCISSEL in his yard north of Las Cruces on
September 3.
In Otero County:
BN and CR on September 5 had CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS in fields near the
Indigo Lizard shop at the Three Rivers turnoff.
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. He had 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.
In Eddy County:
At Rattlesnake Springs on September 5 CR and BN found a RED-EYED VIREO,
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and DICKCISSELS, with a few PAINTED BUNTINGS and two
VERMILION FLYCATCHERS still present.
And they had one UPLAND SANDPIPER in the hay fields near Loving.
SW reports there are ELF OWLS in the Guadalupe Mts. at Dark Canyon, Rocky
Arroyo, and Last Chance Canyon.
In Lea County:
BN and CR on September 5 had an amazing 137 SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHERS in
a flock at mile marker 150 ten to 12 miles east of Maljamar !
CL at the sewage ponds in Tatum on September 2 had an AMERICAN REDSTART.
BN and CR on September 4 at the ponds saw two EASTERN KINGBIRDS, a VIRGINIA
RAIL, and a family of SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHERS.
Initials Used:
MLA, Mary Lou Arthur; JB, Jonathan Batkin; SB, Sarah Beckwith; TB, Trudy
Buck; DC, David Cleary; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C. J. Grimes; JH, Joan
Hardie; DH, David Hawksworth; MH, Michael Hilchey; DJ, Doug Jenness; JJ, Jim
Joseph; BL, Bob Lewis; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; UM, Ursula
Mertens; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; BN, Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JP,
John Parmeter; CR, Chris Rustay; SSA, Sonia Santa Anna; JS, John Shipman;
BV, Brad Vaughn; 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