- RBA
* NEW MEXICO BIRD REPORT
* September 28,2006
* NMEX0609.28
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Western and Clark's Grebes (Sierra)
American White Pelican (Sierra, Hidalgo)
Snowy Egret (Valencia)
Reddish Egret (Chaves)
Cattle Egret (Valencia)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Socorro, Hidalgo)
Wood Duck (DeBaca)
Blue-winged Teal (Doņa Ana)
Osprey (DeBaca, Eddy)
Gray and Common Black Hawks (Hidalgo)
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (Eddy)
Peregrine Falcon (Socorro, Sierra, Grant)
Common Moorhen (Chaves)
Semipalmated Plover (Eddy)
Killdeer (Valencia)
Sanderling (DeBaca, Torrance, Sierra)
Pectoral and Stilt Sandpipers (Valencia)
Red-necked Phalarope (Colfax, Otero)
LAUGHING GULL (Eddy)
California Gull (Colfax)
SABINE'S GULL (Colfax)
Caspian Tern (Sierra)
Common Tern (DeBaca, Sierra)
Forster's Tern (Hidalgo, Eddy)
Black Tern (Bernalillo, Eddy)
Eurasian Collared-Dove (Colfax)
Inca Dove (Guadalupe)
Barn Owl (Colfax)
Northern Pygmy-and Spotted Owls (Grant)
Long-eared Owl (Roosevelt)
BROAD-BILLED Hummingbird (Doņa Ana)
Belted Kingfisher (Hidalgo)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Valencia)
Red-headed Woodpecker (DeBaca)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Grant, Socorro)
Eastern Phoebe (Bernalillo)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Socorro)
Ash-throated Flycatcher (sierra)
Cassin's Vireo (Socorro)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (DeBaca, Otero)
Brown Creeper (Otero)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo)
Swainson's Thrush (Socorro)
Sage Thrasher (Otero)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Doņa Ana)
Townsend's Warbler (Socorro, Colfax, Grant, Otero)
Hermit Warbler (Grant)
Black and White Warbler (Roosevelt)
American Redstart (Roosevelt, Sierra)
Yellow-breasted Chat (Roosevelt)
Summer Tanager (Luna)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Doņa Ana< Otero)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Baird's Sparrow(Otero)
Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco (Grant)
Yellow-eyed Junco (Grant)
Northern Cardinal (Guadalupe)
Dickcissel (Otero)
Common Grackle (Santa Fe)
Red Crossbill (Grant)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: September 28, 2006
RBA phone number 505-884-3269
compiler Patricia R. Snider
home phone number 505-884-1320
cell phone number 505-803-1807
e-mail address _pinyonjay@aol.com_ (mailto:pinyonjay@aol.com)
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for September 28, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are
given for private property, please call before going. Highlights: Red-shouldered
Hawk, Reddish Egret, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Sabine's Gulls. `With the
beginning of fall, migration seems to have slowed.
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. Check the Listserv
Archives and _www.nmosbirds.org_ (http://www.nmosbirds.org) for earlier reports.
For photos of rarities and directions to some birding sites check
hometown.aol.com/borealowl.
For the Bird Records Committee and both Field Ntes 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 Santa Fe County:
LS had a female COMMON GRACKLE at her Santa Fe home on September 23-24.
In San Miguel County:
BW advises that the Clabber Hill Ranch near Conchas Lake is apparently now
closed to birding. There is a new lessee there.
In Colfax County:
DC on the Maxwell Refuge reported the finding of owls at the roost on the
east side of highway A-5 is spotty. JSp saw two BARN OWLS on September 23.
DC at Stubblefield Lake near the refuge on September 25 saw two immature
SABINE'S GULLS and 20 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES.
At Eagle Nest Lake on September 23 DC saw at least 25 CALIFORNIA GULLS. He
was surprised to see 20 EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES in Eagle Nest (at 8400 feet!).
At the Cimarron Canyon SP Tolby Campground area east of Eagle Nest there
were up to 12 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS.
There is now a gas station in Maxwell.
In Bernalillo County:
DK saw an EASTERN PHOEBE on September 13 about a half to three quarters of a
mile south of the Montaņo Bridge along the ditch east of the Rio Grande.
DP had up to 12 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS (with immatures) south of the Montaņo
Bridge on the east side of the Rio Grande on September 17.
On September 22 DP saw two male EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on the Bosque Trail of the
Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque.
JJ on September 24 had a BLACK TERN at a 14th home pond on the Sandia Golf
Resort.
In Valencia County:
DBa on September 22 saw four LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS along the Peralta Drainage
Ditch near Belen. Two more were seen again on September 23.
DH at the marsh behind the Taco Bell in Belen on September 21 saw four
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, three STILT SANDPIPERS, and an amazing 156 CATTLE EGRETS. CR
and SD on September 23 at the pond saw only 49 KILLDEER and 15 SNOWY EGRETS.
In Torrance County:
JO on September 27 had a SANDERLING at the salt flats north on Encino.
In Guadalupe County:
BW on September 18 at the Pecos River bridge in Santa Rosa saw two CARDINALS
and an INCA DOVE. Five miles south of town at a diversion dam on NM 91 there
was another CARDINAL.
In DeBaca County:
JO on September 27 had a young male RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at the northeast
corner of Yeso on NM 60.
At Sumner Lake on September 19 BW saw two SANDERLINGS and four OSPREYS. JP
and WW saw an adult COMMON TERN at the lake on September 23.
At Bosque Redondo Park near Fort Sumner on September 23 JP +and WW had a
WOOD DUCK and a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.
In Roosevelt County:
At the migrant trap 11 miles west of Melrose on September 23 JP and WW found
a female BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER, a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, and a LONG-EARED
OWL. SSA also saw the BLACK-AND-WHITE and an AMERICAN REDSTART on the 23rd.
In Chaves County:
WW, JO, and JD found an immature REDDISH EGRET on Unit 14 of the Bitter Lake
Refuge near Roswell on September 12, with a MOORHEN present. JB had it on
September 22 and SSA on September 23.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio DH on September 24 saw four
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on the refuge, and said up to 20 were reported on the log.
He also found two male VERMILION FLYCATCHERS. CL and CCB on September 24 had a
PEREGRINE FALCON.
At Water Canyon in the Magdalena Mts. west of Socorro on September 23 CL and
CCB found a WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER, CASSIN'S VIREO, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, and
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. The old campground is gone and the new one is nearing
completion, with the road up to the Langmuir Lab is open only on weekends.
CR and SD had a TOWNSEND'S WARBLER at the Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU campus
in Socorro on September 23.
In Sierra County:
CL and CCB on September 23 had a PEREGRINE FALCON at Percha Dam State Park.
On the 23rd CR and SD saw only an AMERICAN REDSTART there. Near the Caballo
dam there was a CASSIN'S VIREO.
At Paseo del Rio Park below Elephant Butte Dam there was for CR and SD
another Cassin's vireo and a late ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER. At South Monticello
Point on the lake there were 175 WHITE PELICANS and close to 500 WESTERN and
CLARK'S GREBES. Some were still sitting on nests.
On the lake at Lion's Point on September 25 JO saw five COMMON TERNS, a
CASPIAN TERN, and an immature SANDERLING.
In Grant County:
PT and TM on September 27 in the Pinos Altos Mts. in the Signal Peak area
heard a SPOTTED OWL and PYGMY OWL and reported a male WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER,
eight TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, two HERMIT WARBLERS, and a SLATE-COLORED JUNCO.
DG on September 21-22 made another foray into the Big Burro Mts. near Silver
City and found a WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER, RED CROSSBILLS, a few YELLOW-EYED
JUNCOS on top with two fledglings, and three PEREGRINE FALCONS.
In Hidalgo County:
At the Lordsburg Sewage Ponds on September 22 JO saw a FORSTER'S TERN and
five WHITE PELICANS. Surprising on September 23 was a BELTED KINGFISHER at
Clanton Canyon with a BLACK HAWK in the lower canyon September 24.
Off limits perhaps were two GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS at Cloverdale and a GRAY
HAWK south of the Gray Ranch headquarters.
At the playas west of Lordsburg at the Animas exit of I-10 on September 25
there were four WHITE-FRONTED GEESE.
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:
Jo on September 25 had a SUMMER TANAGER at Pecan Park in Deming.
The waste treatment ponds in Deming have been closed for construction and
birding till further notice.
In Dona Ana County:
JN on September 26 at the Bosque Valley Park (Old Refuge) south of Mesilla
again saw the female BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD.
DG at his home in northeast Las Cruces on 17 had a MYRTLE WARBLER with a
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW on September 24.
JO saw BLUE-WINGED TEAL at a pond in the Uvas Valley on NM 26 west of Hatch
on September 25.
JN found water in Isaak Lake northeast of Las Cruces.
In Otero County:
DG on September 19 had migrants on Otero Mesa including a DICKCISSEL. On
September 20 there were CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, a BAIRD'S SPARROW, and SAGE
THRASHER.
AT Bluff Spring in the Sacrmento Mts. on September 21 JO saw TOWNSEND'S
WARBLER, BROWN CREEPER, and two RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES.
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo JO on September 21 had one RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE. 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:
At Rattlesnake Springs near Whites City SW on September 10 aw again the
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK flying along the stream. On September 19 JBu again saw the
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, which he identified as the elegans subspecies. JB saw the
hawk again in a dead cottonwood near the entrance on September 22. JS on
September 24 and 25 missed the hawk.
JB also had at Brantley Lake on September 22 a first winter LAUGHING GULL.
JS on September 24 saw ten FORSTER'S TERNS, four BLACK TERNS, a SEMIPALMATED
PLOVER, and an OSprey.
INITIALS USED:
JB, Jonathan Batkin; DBa. Dan Battaglia; CB, Charles and Chandra Britt; JBu,
Josh Burns; DC, David Cleary; SD, Steve Drilling; JD, Jon Dunn; DG, David
Griffin; DH, David Hawksworth; JJ, Jim Joseph; DK, David Krueper: SL, CL, Carl
Lundblad; TM, Teri Matelson; JN, Josh Nemeth; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; DP, Danny
Paez; JP, John Parmeter; SSA, Sonia Santa Anna; LS, Laurel Seth; JS, John
Shipman; JSp, Jacob Spendelow; PT, Pat Taber; 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. On October 5 the trip is to the Manzano Hawkwatch Site led by Bonnie Long.
On OCtober 12 they to to the Alameda Open Space with Lannois Neely, on
October 19 to She Shining River Bosque Open Space with Sylvia Fine, and On October
26 for a hike on the Embudito Trail with Nancy Phillips.
Southwestern Audubon on October 6 and 7 with have a symposium on the WNMU
campus in Silver City on the Natural History of the Gila River. There will be
Field trips, including birds of the Gila with Roland Shook.
On Sunday, October 8 Sangre de Cristo Audubon visits the Manzano HawkWatch
site. Call Gary and Carol Johnson at 466-1303.
On September 30 Central Audubon will bird to the Clayton area. Contact Chris
Rustay at 838-2296.
On Saturday, October 28, Central Audubon will bird at the Bosque del Apache
Refuge. Contact is Bob Merkel at 838-2296.
Also on October 28 Mesilla Valley Audubon will go to the Rio Bosque Park in
El Paso. Call Walt Whitford at 521-1358.
The Festival of Cranes at Socorro this year will be November 14-19. Central
Audubon has put out a call for volunteers to help. Contact Jeff Myers at
998-1502.
- End transcript.
* NEW MEXICO BIRD REPORT
* September 28,2006
* NMEX0609.28
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Western and Clark's Grebes (Sierra)
American White Pelican (Sierra, Hidalgo)
Snowy Egret (Valencia)
Reddish Egret (Chaves)
Cattle Egret (Valencia)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Socorro, Hidalgo)
Wood Duck (DeBaca)
Blue-winged Teal (Doņa Ana)
Osprey (DeBaca, Eddy)
Gray and Common Black Hawks (Hidalgo)
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (Eddy)
Peregrine Falcon (Socorro, Sierra, Grant)
Common Moorhen (Chaves)
Semipalmated Plover (Eddy)
Killdeer (Valencia)
Sanderling (DeBaca, Torrance, Sierra)
Pectoral and Stilt Sandpipers (Valencia)
Red-necked Phalarope (Colfax, Otero)
LAUGHING GULL (Eddy)
California Gull (Colfax)
SABINE'S GULL (Colfax)
Caspian Tern (Sierra)
Common Tern (DeBaca, Sierra)
Forster's Tern (Hidalgo, Eddy)
Black Tern (Bernalillo, Eddy)
Eurasian Collared-Dove (Colfax)
Inca Dove (Guadalupe)
Barn Owl (Colfax)
Northern Pygmy-and Spotted Owls (Grant)
Long-eared Owl (Roosevelt)
BROAD-BILLED Hummingbird (Doņa Ana)
Belted Kingfisher (Hidalgo)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Valencia)
Red-headed Woodpecker (DeBaca)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Grant, Socorro)
Eastern Phoebe (Bernalillo)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Socorro)
Ash-throated Flycatcher (sierra)
Cassin's Vireo (Socorro)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (DeBaca, Otero)
Brown Creeper (Otero)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo)
Swainson's Thrush (Socorro)
Sage Thrasher (Otero)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Doņa Ana)
Townsend's Warbler (Socorro, Colfax, Grant, Otero)
Hermit Warbler (Grant)
Black and White Warbler (Roosevelt)
American Redstart (Roosevelt, Sierra)
Yellow-breasted Chat (Roosevelt)
Summer Tanager (Luna)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Doņa Ana< Otero)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Baird's Sparrow(Otero)
Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco (Grant)
Yellow-eyed Junco (Grant)
Northern Cardinal (Guadalupe)
Dickcissel (Otero)
Common Grackle (Santa Fe)
Red Crossbill (Grant)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: September 28, 2006
RBA phone number 505-884-3269
compiler Patricia R. Snider
home phone number 505-884-1320
cell phone number 505-803-1807
e-mail address _pinyonjay@aol.com_ (mailto:pinyonjay@aol.com)
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for September 28, 2006,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are
given for private property, please call before going. Highlights: Red-shouldered
Hawk, Reddish Egret, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Sabine's Gulls. `With the
beginning of fall, migration seems to have slowed.
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. Check the Listserv
Archives and _www.nmosbirds.org_ (http://www.nmosbirds.org) for earlier reports.
For photos of rarities and directions to some birding sites check
hometown.aol.com/borealowl.
For the Bird Records Committee and both Field Ntes 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 Santa Fe County:
LS had a female COMMON GRACKLE at her Santa Fe home on September 23-24.
In San Miguel County:
BW advises that the Clabber Hill Ranch near Conchas Lake is apparently now
closed to birding. There is a new lessee there.
In Colfax County:
DC on the Maxwell Refuge reported the finding of owls at the roost on the
east side of highway A-5 is spotty. JSp saw two BARN OWLS on September 23.
DC at Stubblefield Lake near the refuge on September 25 saw two immature
SABINE'S GULLS and 20 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES.
At Eagle Nest Lake on September 23 DC saw at least 25 CALIFORNIA GULLS. He
was surprised to see 20 EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES in Eagle Nest (at 8400 feet!).
At the Cimarron Canyon SP Tolby Campground area east of Eagle Nest there
were up to 12 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS.
There is now a gas station in Maxwell.
In Bernalillo County:
DK saw an EASTERN PHOEBE on September 13 about a half to three quarters of a
mile south of the Montaņo Bridge along the ditch east of the Rio Grande.
DP had up to 12 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS (with immatures) south of the Montaņo
Bridge on the east side of the Rio Grande on September 17.
On September 22 DP saw two male EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on the Bosque Trail of the
Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque.
JJ on September 24 had a BLACK TERN at a 14th home pond on the Sandia Golf
Resort.
In Valencia County:
DBa on September 22 saw four LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS along the Peralta Drainage
Ditch near Belen. Two more were seen again on September 23.
DH at the marsh behind the Taco Bell in Belen on September 21 saw four
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, three STILT SANDPIPERS, and an amazing 156 CATTLE EGRETS. CR
and SD on September 23 at the pond saw only 49 KILLDEER and 15 SNOWY EGRETS.
In Torrance County:
JO on September 27 had a SANDERLING at the salt flats north on Encino.
In Guadalupe County:
BW on September 18 at the Pecos River bridge in Santa Rosa saw two CARDINALS
and an INCA DOVE. Five miles south of town at a diversion dam on NM 91 there
was another CARDINAL.
In DeBaca County:
JO on September 27 had a young male RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at the northeast
corner of Yeso on NM 60.
At Sumner Lake on September 19 BW saw two SANDERLINGS and four OSPREYS. JP
and WW saw an adult COMMON TERN at the lake on September 23.
At Bosque Redondo Park near Fort Sumner on September 23 JP +and WW had a
WOOD DUCK and a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.
In Roosevelt County:
At the migrant trap 11 miles west of Melrose on September 23 JP and WW found
a female BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER, a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, and a LONG-EARED
OWL. SSA also saw the BLACK-AND-WHITE and an AMERICAN REDSTART on the 23rd.
In Chaves County:
WW, JO, and JD found an immature REDDISH EGRET on Unit 14 of the Bitter Lake
Refuge near Roswell on September 12, with a MOORHEN present. JB had it on
September 22 and SSA on September 23.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio DH on September 24 saw four
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on the refuge, and said up to 20 were reported on the log.
He also found two male VERMILION FLYCATCHERS. CL and CCB on September 24 had a
PEREGRINE FALCON.
At Water Canyon in the Magdalena Mts. west of Socorro on September 23 CL and
CCB found a WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER, CASSIN'S VIREO, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, and
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. The old campground is gone and the new one is nearing
completion, with the road up to the Langmuir Lab is open only on weekends.
CR and SD had a TOWNSEND'S WARBLER at the Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU campus
in Socorro on September 23.
In Sierra County:
CL and CCB on September 23 had a PEREGRINE FALCON at Percha Dam State Park.
On the 23rd CR and SD saw only an AMERICAN REDSTART there. Near the Caballo
dam there was a CASSIN'S VIREO.
At Paseo del Rio Park below Elephant Butte Dam there was for CR and SD
another Cassin's vireo and a late ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER. At South Monticello
Point on the lake there were 175 WHITE PELICANS and close to 500 WESTERN and
CLARK'S GREBES. Some were still sitting on nests.
On the lake at Lion's Point on September 25 JO saw five COMMON TERNS, a
CASPIAN TERN, and an immature SANDERLING.
In Grant County:
PT and TM on September 27 in the Pinos Altos Mts. in the Signal Peak area
heard a SPOTTED OWL and PYGMY OWL and reported a male WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER,
eight TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, two HERMIT WARBLERS, and a SLATE-COLORED JUNCO.
DG on September 21-22 made another foray into the Big Burro Mts. near Silver
City and found a WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER, RED CROSSBILLS, a few YELLOW-EYED
JUNCOS on top with two fledglings, and three PEREGRINE FALCONS.
In Hidalgo County:
At the Lordsburg Sewage Ponds on September 22 JO saw a FORSTER'S TERN and
five WHITE PELICANS. Surprising on September 23 was a BELTED KINGFISHER at
Clanton Canyon with a BLACK HAWK in the lower canyon September 24.
Off limits perhaps were two GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS at Cloverdale and a GRAY
HAWK south of the Gray Ranch headquarters.
At the playas west of Lordsburg at the Animas exit of I-10 on September 25
there were four WHITE-FRONTED GEESE.
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:
Jo on September 25 had a SUMMER TANAGER at Pecan Park in Deming.
The waste treatment ponds in Deming have been closed for construction and
birding till further notice.
In Dona Ana County:
JN on September 26 at the Bosque Valley Park (Old Refuge) south of Mesilla
again saw the female BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD.
DG at his home in northeast Las Cruces on 17 had a MYRTLE WARBLER with a
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW on September 24.
JO saw BLUE-WINGED TEAL at a pond in the Uvas Valley on NM 26 west of Hatch
on September 25.
JN found water in Isaak Lake northeast of Las Cruces.
In Otero County:
DG on September 19 had migrants on Otero Mesa including a DICKCISSEL. On
September 20 there were CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, a BAIRD'S SPARROW, and SAGE
THRASHER.
AT Bluff Spring in the Sacrmento Mts. on September 21 JO saw TOWNSEND'S
WARBLER, BROWN CREEPER, and two RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES.
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo JO on September 21 had one RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE. 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:
At Rattlesnake Springs near Whites City SW on September 10 aw again the
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK flying along the stream. On September 19 JBu again saw the
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, which he identified as the elegans subspecies. JB saw the
hawk again in a dead cottonwood near the entrance on September 22. JS on
September 24 and 25 missed the hawk.
JB also had at Brantley Lake on September 22 a first winter LAUGHING GULL.
JS on September 24 saw ten FORSTER'S TERNS, four BLACK TERNS, a SEMIPALMATED
PLOVER, and an OSprey.
INITIALS USED:
JB, Jonathan Batkin; DBa. Dan Battaglia; CB, Charles and Chandra Britt; JBu,
Josh Burns; DC, David Cleary; SD, Steve Drilling; JD, Jon Dunn; DG, David
Griffin; DH, David Hawksworth; JJ, Jim Joseph; DK, David Krueper: SL, CL, Carl
Lundblad; TM, Teri Matelson; JN, Josh Nemeth; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; DP, Danny
Paez; JP, John Parmeter; SSA, Sonia Santa Anna; LS, Laurel Seth; JS, John
Shipman; JSp, Jacob Spendelow; PT, Pat Taber; 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. On October 5 the trip is to the Manzano Hawkwatch Site led by Bonnie Long.
On OCtober 12 they to to the Alameda Open Space with Lannois Neely, on
October 19 to She Shining River Bosque Open Space with Sylvia Fine, and On October
26 for a hike on the Embudito Trail with Nancy Phillips.
Southwestern Audubon on October 6 and 7 with have a symposium on the WNMU
campus in Silver City on the Natural History of the Gila River. There will be
Field trips, including birds of the Gila with Roland Shook.
On Sunday, October 8 Sangre de Cristo Audubon visits the Manzano HawkWatch
site. Call Gary and Carol Johnson at 466-1303.
On September 30 Central Audubon will bird to the Clayton area. Contact Chris
Rustay at 838-2296.
On Saturday, October 28, Central Audubon will bird at the Bosque del Apache
Refuge. Contact is Bob Merkel at 838-2296.
Also on October 28 Mesilla Valley Audubon will go to the Rio Bosque Park in
El Paso. Call Walt Whitford at 521-1358.
The Festival of Cranes at Socorro this year will be November 14-19. Central
Audubon has put out a call for volunteers to help. Contact Jeff Myers at
998-1502.
- End transcript.