- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* September 8, 2005
* NMEX0509.08
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
Snow Goose and Wood Duck (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, Socorro)
Mississippi Kite (Roosevelt)
Swainson's Hawk (Roosevelt)
Peregrine Falcon (Otero, DeBaca)
Blue Grouse (Sandoval)
Virginia Rail (Lea)
Black-bellied Plover (Chaves)
Upland Sandpiper (Eddy)
Marbled Godwit (Otero)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Roosevelt)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Roosevelt)
Stilt Sandpiper (Roosevelt, Chaves)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Sierra)
Red-necked Phalarope (Socorro, Torrance, Colfax)
Laughing Gull (Sierra)
Forster's Tern (DeBaca)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Roosevelt)
Calliope Hummingbird (San Juan)
Belted Kingfisher (Lea, Luna)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Cibola)
Downy Woodpecker (Grant)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Bernalillo)
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Roosevelt)
Least Flycatcher (Roosevelt)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Roosevelt)
Eastern Kingbird (Socorro, Bernalillo, Lea)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Quay, Guadalupe, Lea, Roosevelt)
Gray Vireo (Bernalillo)
Bell's Vireo (Luna)
Cassin's Vireo (Sierra, Luna, Bernalillo)
Yellow-throated Vireo (Sierra)
Red-eyed Vireo (Roosevelt, Eddy)
Cave Swallow (Sierra)
Cactus Wren (Guadalupe, Curry)
Carolina Wren (Bernalillo)
Gray Catbird (Socorro)
Cedar Waxwing (Catron)
Nashville Warbler (Roosevelt, Grant, Catron)
Northern Parula (Sierra)
Townsend's Warbler (Quay)
American Redstart (Guadalupe, Lea, Sierra)
Black-and-White Warbler (Roosevelt)
Northern Waterthrush (DeBaca, Socorro, Eddy, Catron)
Wilson's Warbler (Sierra, Roosevelt)
Painted Redstart (Sierra)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Roosevelt. Guadalupe, Torrance, Otero, Bernalillo)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro, Cibola)
Painted Bunting (Roosevelt)
Dickcissel (Doņa Ana, Eddy, Roosevelt)
BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Roosevelt)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: September 8, 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 8, 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. Laughing Gull, Short-billed Dowitcher.
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 had an immature CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD at his Farmington feeder on
September 7.
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.
At Stubblefield Lake DC on August 29 saw a COMMON LOON.
In Quay County:
CR on September 2 on NM 54 at the Texas line near Nara Visa saw a
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. Four miles north of Logan he had a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER.
In Cibola County:
CJG and SB on September 7 at El Morro Monument had an INDIGO BUNTING in
their yard. On September 7 he had a LADDER-BACKED WOODPECKER in Grants at the
El Malpais h.q. on Roosevelt Avenue.
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. 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.
In Torrance County:
HS on September 6 at the Quarai Ruins had a good migration of warblers
and sparrows, including a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW.
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 BW reports that much of the
understory brush has been removed, so few birds.
At Sumner Lake on September 7 BW and JNM found two FORSTER'S TERNS, a
PEREGRINE, with a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH still below the dam.
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, and JO reported the crested flycatcher,
one vireo, the eastern pewee, and the immature male Baltimore Oriole. SSA and
MLA had a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER on September 3 with a NASHVILLE WARBLER and
the oriole on September 4. JP had a DICKCISSEL on September 5. BW and JNM on
September 7 were lucky as they found the pewee, crested flycatcher, immature
male oriole, least flycatcher, black-and-white warbler, three immature PAINTED
BUNTINGS, several CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, and many WILSON'S WARBLERS and
kettling SWAINSON'S HAWKS in the area.
BW and JNM on September 7 at Elida had two immature MISSISSIPPI KITES and
a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER.
Two miles south of Dora at a playa BN and CR on September 4 reported ten
species of shorebirds, with a SEMIPALMATED, STILT, and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS.
In Curry County:
JNM and BW on September 7 just north of Melrose and just west of NM 209
had a CACTUS WREN.
In Socorro County:
JO at his home at Luis Lopez south of Socorro on September 3 had 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 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES at his
home on September 4.
On Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio JS on August 21 saw one
lingering SNOW GOOSE and a female WOOD DUCK. On September 5 he found a CATBIRD
where the Seasonal Road's eastbound leg turns north.
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.
BW and JNM saw it on Unit 15 on September 7, the only part with water. They
had 'lots' of STILT SANDPIPERS with two BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS on Unit 7.
In Sierra County:
At Elephant Butte Lake JO on September 7 reported a LAUGHING GULL at
Three Sisters Point and another at the east end of North Monticello Point. At the
northwest corner of the latter point he had a SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER.
At Percha State Park BW on September 5 found a CASSIN'S VIREO, an
immature female AMERICAN REDSTART, up to 80 WILSON'S WARBLERS, and two CAVE SWALLOWS.
CL the same day had three redstarts and agreed there were lots of warblers.
JO reported on September 7 that he and CBl had a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO,
NORTHERN PARULA, AMERICAN REDSTART, PAINTED REDSTART.
In Catron County:
JH at her home east of Datil had the first CEDAR WAXWING on August 30.
On September 5 there was a NASHVILLE WARBLER in her yard, and on September 6 a
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH.
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.
At Katfish Kove near the City of Rocks park on September 5 CL had a
KASSIN'S (o.k. Cassin's) VIREO and three VERMILION FLYCATCHERS.
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 had the
PEREGRINE and a MARBLED GODWIT on September 3.
In Eddy County:
At Rattlesnake Springs on September 5 CR and BN found a RED-EYED VIREO,
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and DICKCISSELS.
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 and a
VIRGINIA RAIL.
PM had a BELTED KINGFISHER at the pond in his Eunice yard on August 31.
Initials Used:
MLA, Mary Lou Arthur; JB, Jonathan Batkin; SB, Sarah Beckwith; CBl,
Charles Black; DC, David Cleary; NC, Nancy Cox; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C. J.
Grimes; JH, Joan Hardie; DH, David Hawksworth; MH, Michael Hilchey; DJ, Doug
Jenness; JJ, Jim Joseph; PK, Paul Kaufman; BL, Bob Lewis; CL, Carl
Lundblad; PM, Pat McCasland; UM, Ursula Mertens; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; BN,
Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JP, John Parmeter; CR, Chris Rustay; SSA,
Sonia Santa Anna; HS, Hart Schwarz; 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 15 is 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 8, 2005
* NMEX0509.08
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Chaves)
Snow Goose and Wood Duck (Socorro)
Osprey (Catron, Socorro)
Mississippi Kite (Roosevelt)
Swainson's Hawk (Roosevelt)
Peregrine Falcon (Otero, DeBaca)
Blue Grouse (Sandoval)
Virginia Rail (Lea)
Black-bellied Plover (Chaves)
Upland Sandpiper (Eddy)
Marbled Godwit (Otero)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Roosevelt)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Roosevelt)
Stilt Sandpiper (Roosevelt, Chaves)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Sierra)
Red-necked Phalarope (Socorro, Torrance, Colfax)
Laughing Gull (Sierra)
Forster's Tern (DeBaca)
Elf Owl (Eddy)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Roosevelt)
Calliope Hummingbird (San Juan)
Belted Kingfisher (Lea, Luna)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Cibola)
Downy Woodpecker (Grant)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Bernalillo)
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Roosevelt)
Least Flycatcher (Roosevelt)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Roosevelt)
Eastern Kingbird (Socorro, Bernalillo, Lea)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Quay, Guadalupe, Lea, Roosevelt)
Gray Vireo (Bernalillo)
Bell's Vireo (Luna)
Cassin's Vireo (Sierra, Luna, Bernalillo)
Yellow-throated Vireo (Sierra)
Red-eyed Vireo (Roosevelt, Eddy)
Cave Swallow (Sierra)
Cactus Wren (Guadalupe, Curry)
Carolina Wren (Bernalillo)
Gray Catbird (Socorro)
Cedar Waxwing (Catron)
Nashville Warbler (Roosevelt, Grant, Catron)
Northern Parula (Sierra)
Townsend's Warbler (Quay)
American Redstart (Guadalupe, Lea, Sierra)
Black-and-White Warbler (Roosevelt)
Northern Waterthrush (DeBaca, Socorro, Eddy, Catron)
Wilson's Warbler (Sierra, Roosevelt)
Painted Redstart (Sierra)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Roosevelt. Guadalupe, Torrance, Otero, Bernalillo)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro, Cibola)
Painted Bunting (Roosevelt)
Dickcissel (Doņa Ana, Eddy, Roosevelt)
BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Roosevelt)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: September 8, 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 8, 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. Laughing Gull, Short-billed Dowitcher.
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 had an immature CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD at his Farmington feeder on
September 7.
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.
At Stubblefield Lake DC on August 29 saw a COMMON LOON.
In Quay County:
CR on September 2 on NM 54 at the Texas line near Nara Visa saw a
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. Four miles north of Logan he had a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER.
In Cibola County:
CJG and SB on September 7 at El Morro Monument had an INDIGO BUNTING in
their yard. On September 7 he had a LADDER-BACKED WOODPECKER in Grants at the
El Malpais h.q. on Roosevelt Avenue.
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. 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.
In Torrance County:
HS on September 6 at the Quarai Ruins had a good migration of warblers
and sparrows, including a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW.
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 BW reports that much of the
understory brush has been removed, so few birds.
At Sumner Lake on September 7 BW and JNM found two FORSTER'S TERNS, a
PEREGRINE, with a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH still below the dam.
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, and JO reported the crested flycatcher,
one vireo, the eastern pewee, and the immature male Baltimore Oriole. SSA and
MLA had a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER on September 3 with a NASHVILLE WARBLER and
the oriole on September 4. JP had a DICKCISSEL on September 5. BW and JNM on
September 7 were lucky as they found the pewee, crested flycatcher, immature
male oriole, least flycatcher, black-and-white warbler, three immature PAINTED
BUNTINGS, several CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, and many WILSON'S WARBLERS and
kettling SWAINSON'S HAWKS in the area.
BW and JNM on September 7 at Elida had two immature MISSISSIPPI KITES and
a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER.
Two miles south of Dora at a playa BN and CR on September 4 reported ten
species of shorebirds, with a SEMIPALMATED, STILT, and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS.
In Curry County:
JNM and BW on September 7 just north of Melrose and just west of NM 209
had a CACTUS WREN.
In Socorro County:
JO at his home at Luis Lopez south of Socorro on September 3 had 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 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES at his
home on September 4.
On Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio JS on August 21 saw one
lingering SNOW GOOSE and a female WOOD DUCK. On September 5 he found a CATBIRD
where the Seasonal Road's eastbound leg turns north.
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.
BW and JNM saw it on Unit 15 on September 7, the only part with water. They
had 'lots' of STILT SANDPIPERS with two BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS on Unit 7.
In Sierra County:
At Elephant Butte Lake JO on September 7 reported a LAUGHING GULL at
Three Sisters Point and another at the east end of North Monticello Point. At the
northwest corner of the latter point he had a SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER.
At Percha State Park BW on September 5 found a CASSIN'S VIREO, an
immature female AMERICAN REDSTART, up to 80 WILSON'S WARBLERS, and two CAVE SWALLOWS.
CL the same day had three redstarts and agreed there were lots of warblers.
JO reported on September 7 that he and CBl had a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO,
NORTHERN PARULA, AMERICAN REDSTART, PAINTED REDSTART.
In Catron County:
JH at her home east of Datil had the first CEDAR WAXWING on August 30.
On September 5 there was a NASHVILLE WARBLER in her yard, and on September 6 a
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH.
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.
At Katfish Kove near the City of Rocks park on September 5 CL had a
KASSIN'S (o.k. Cassin's) VIREO and three VERMILION FLYCATCHERS.
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 had the
PEREGRINE and a MARBLED GODWIT on September 3.
In Eddy County:
At Rattlesnake Springs on September 5 CR and BN found a RED-EYED VIREO,
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and DICKCISSELS.
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 and a
VIRGINIA RAIL.
PM had a BELTED KINGFISHER at the pond in his Eunice yard on August 31.
Initials Used:
MLA, Mary Lou Arthur; JB, Jonathan Batkin; SB, Sarah Beckwith; CBl,
Charles Black; DC, David Cleary; NC, Nancy Cox; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C. J.
Grimes; JH, Joan Hardie; DH, David Hawksworth; MH, Michael Hilchey; DJ, Doug
Jenness; JJ, Jim Joseph; PK, Paul Kaufman; BL, Bob Lewis; CL, Carl
Lundblad; PM, Pat McCasland; UM, Ursula Mertens; JNM, Jim Nelson-Moore; BN,
Bruce Neville; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JP, John Parmeter; CR, Chris Rustay; SSA,
Sonia Santa Anna; HS, Hart Schwarz; 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 15 is 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