- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* January 18, 2007
* NMEX0701.18
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax, San Miguel, Sierra)
Horned Grebe (San Miguel, Quay)
Cattle Egret (Doņa Ana)
White-faced Ibis (Valencia)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Socorro)
Cackling and Canada Geese (Doņa Ana)
Cinnamon Teal (Socorro)
White-winged Scoter (Colfax)
Long-tailed Duck (Colfax)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Colfax)
Common Goldeneye (Grant, Sandoval)
Osprey (Sierra)
White-tailed Kite (Hidalgo)
Bald Eagle (Colfax, Sierra)
Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk (San Miguel, Doņa Ana)
Rough-legged Hawk (Colfax, San Miguel)
Ferruginous Hawk (San Miguel)
Northern Bobwhite (Quay)
Montezuma Quail (Hidalgo)
Sora and Common Moorhen (Doņa Ana)
Sandhill Crane (Doņa Ana)
Black-necked Stilt (Doņa Ana)
Dunlin (Otero)
Wilson's Snipe (Doņa Ana)
Bonaparte's Gull (Sierra)
California Gull (Sierra, Doņa Ana)
MEW GULL (Sierra, Doņa Ana)
Herring Gull (Sierra, Doņa Ana)
Thayer's Gull (Sierra)
ICELAND GULL (Doņa Ana)
White-winged Dove (San Miguel)
RUDDY Ground-Dove (Doņa Ana)
Whiskered Screech-Owl. (Hidalgo)
Long-eared Owl (Hidalgo)
Anna's Hummingbird (Doņa Ana)
Military Macaw escape (Doņa Ana)
Acorn Woodpecker (Doņa Ana)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sierra, Socorro)
Arizona Woodpecker (Hidalgo)
Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker (Doņa Ana)
Hammond's Flycatcher (Sierra)
Dusky Flycatcher (Doņa Ana)
Eastern Phoebe (Doņa Ana, Socorro)
Northern Shrike (Colfax)
Cassin's and Hutton's Vireos (Doņa Ana)
Pinyon Jay (Grant)
American Crow (Doņa Ana)
Mountain Chickadee (Doņa Ana)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Doņa Ana)
Brown Creeper (Sierra)
American Dipper (Sierra)
Townsend's Solitaire (Doņa Ana)
Brown Thrasher (Quay)
Sprague's Pipit (Socorro, Doņa Ana)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Doņa Ana)
Slate-colored Fox Sparrows (Bernalillo, Socorro)
Lincoln's Sparrow (Doņa Ana)
Swamp Sparrow (Quay)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro, Sierra, Doņa Ana)
Lapland Longspur (Bernalillo)
Longspurs (Socorro, Doņa Ana)
Bronzed Cowbird (Doņa Ana)
Rosy Finches (Bernalillo)
Lawrence's Goldfinch (Hidalgo)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: January 18, 2007
compiler Patricia R. Snider
Phone: 719-846-3174
Cell phone 505-803-1807
e-mail address _pinyonjay@aol.com_ (mailto:pinyonjay@aol.com)
I have moved to Colorado.
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for January 18, 2007,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are
given for private property, please call before going. Highlights: ICELAND GULL,
Mew Gulls, Thayer's Gull.
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
_www.birder.com_ (http://www.birder.com) 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 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 Sandoval County:
BH found Cochiti Lake totally frozen for the first time on January 15.
Ducks were on the Rio at the Spillway including COMMON GOLDENEYES.
In San Miguel County:
On January 5 CW, MH, and BT on Conchas Lake saw several HORNED GREBES. On
January 6 JP and WW saw three COMMON LOONS there. At the Adobe Belle Resort
there was a WHITE-WINGED DOVE.
MR and SF found most of the lakes at the Las Vegas Refuge frozen. There
were two ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, up to five FERRUGINOUS HAWKS, and a HARLAN'S HAWK.
In Colfax County:
Lake 13 on the Maxwell Refuge has been frozen.
On nearby Stubblefield Lake DC found a few spots open with two COMMON LOONS.
At the lake on December 28 he saw 28 BALD EAGLES. On January 1 DC found
the female LONG-TAILED DUCK, two BARROW'S GOLDENEYES, and the female
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER.
On NM 445 north of Maxwell there was a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and a NORTHERN
SHRIKE on January 1.
In Quay County:
At Ute Lake on January 6 JP and WW saw about two HORNED GREBES, a BROWN
THRASHER, two SWAMP SPARROWS, and a BOBWHITE.
In Bernalillo County:
At the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque DP had a SLATE-COLORED FOX
SPARROW at the observation feeder. CW saw it on January 9, BV on January 13,
and JP on January 14.
JP had fly-over calling LAPLAND LONGSPURS over Kirtland AFB on January 10.
At the Sandia Crest House east of Albuquerque there is a good number of
BLACK ROSY-FINCHES with a few BROWN-CAPPED and GRAY-CROWNED. The SNC banding
team reported that in spite of the cold and wind on January 14 they banded 127
ROSY FINCHES. 44 were GRAY-CROWNED, with of these there was an amazing 21 of
the HEPBURN'S race (47 so far this winter!). Also banded were two
BROWN-CAPPED and 81 BLACKS.
In Valencia County:
JP, WW, and MB on January 13 found the WHITE-FACED IBIS back at the Taco
Bell Marsh in Belen.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio on January 5 JP, WW, and LL
found the YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, FOX SPARROW, and two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS
at the visitor center. DP on January 7 saw the sapsucker, white-throated
sparrows. BV on January 13 found four WHITE-FRONTED GEESE and two CINNAMON
TEAL at the south end of the Farm Loop. JP, WW, and MB had the EASTERN PHOEBE
at the Flight Deck January 13.
In the area 16 miles east of San Antonio on County Rd. 127 JP, WW, and LL on
January 5 found one SPRAGUE'S PIPIT with many longspurs.
JO has had three WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS at his home in Luis Lopez south of
Socorro.
In Sierra County:
At Percha Dam State Park JP, WW, and MB found the DIPPER still present with
an OSPREY, a calling HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER, a BROWN CREEPER, and the immature
YELLOW=BELLIED SAPSUCKER on January 13. CL on January 14 saw two
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE a quarter mile south of Percha.
CL found an adult MEW GULL on Caballo Lake on December 29 at a road marked
Caballo Dam East. It was at Percha Flats below the dam for JP, WW, and MB on
January 13 with a COMMON LOON. BJ and others found a BONAPARTE'S GULL at the
boat ramp on January 14. At Riverside Park below the dam JP reported a
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. CL found a HOUSE WREN there January 14.
CL on December 22 at Elephant Butte Lake's Rock Canyon Marina recorded a
CALIFORNIA GULL with several HERRING GULLS. JP, WW, and MB on January 13 had an
adult THAYER'S GULL on the breakwater with the Herring Gulls.
In Grant County:
GE had a BALD EAGLE at the Tyrone Sewage Ponds on January 7.
DBe reported 150 PINYON JAYS near the Bear Mt. Lodge north of Silver City on
December 21.
EL at Roberts Lake on January 5 found a pair of COMMON GOLDENEYE with a SORA
and two adult BALD EAGLES.
In Hidalgo County:
PL on January 15 spotted a WHITE-TAILED KITE south of Animas.
NP and MB on January 5 at the San Simon Cienega north of Rodeo found at
least seven LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCHES. It is at mile marker 16.7 on US 80 on a dirt
road at a cattle guard. MH, CW, and BT did not find the goldfinches on
January 13.
In Clanton Canyon on December 30 JP reported a MONTEZUMA QUAIL on the road.
MH, CW, and BT on January 13 had four ARIZONA WOODPECKERS, four WHISKERED
SCREECH-OWLS and a LONG-EARED OWL.
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 Doņa Ana County:
JPa found a first winter ICELAND GULL on the Sunland Park racetrack pond
December 5. It stays on the lake's east side with a HERRING GULL and seems to
appear in the late afternoon. JP advises that one needs to get permission to
look for it from the casino's office near the Jackpot Grill. There is a
platform from which one can scope. But JB and JO say that the racetrack does NOT
want ANY birders there when the horses are racing on Tuesdays, Fridays,
Saturdays, and Sundays beginning at 12:15 p.m. JPa saw it on January 8 with an
adult MEW GULL. MS and JZ on January 12 found three adult CALIFORNIAS and the
Mew Gull. JP, WW, and MB on January 12 from outside the fence on the north
end saw the two adult Californias, an immature Herring, and at 4:30 the
Iceland, but no Mew Gull. KS reported it in January 15, PS on January 17. On
January 14 JY reported the Herring, Iceland, and California Gulls with the
escaped MILITARY MACAW seen again in the area.
Along the Rio Grande near the track JP saw four BLACK-NECKED STILTS, an
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, and two MOORHENS on January 12. KS on January 15 on
McNutt Rd. in Santa Teresa saw 20 LEAST SANDPIPERS on the Rio.
JZ and MS saw 34 SNIPES at Swan Pond on January 15. In an alfalfa field
near Garfield there were 1100 SANDHILL CRANES. CL on January 14 found a calling
DUSKY FLYCATCHER at Leasburg State Park. It was not seen by JZ and MS
January 16.
On January 14 in the Uvas Valley west of Hatch CL found CHESTNUT-COLLARED
LONGSPURS and SAGE SPARROWS. JZ and MS on January 16 found many of the
sparrows.
On January 8 at Aguirre Springs SP east of the Organ Mts. MS and JZ found on
the entrance road a CASSIN'S VIREO. On the Pine Tree Trail there were
several ACORN WOODPECKERS with a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the trail's head.
CL in Fillmore Canyon on the west side of the Organ Mts. on January 8 saw
two HUTTON'S VIREOS. JZ and MS in the canyon near the spring saw the
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, a SOLITAIRE, one MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE, and LINCOLN'S SPARROWS.
At a ditch off of Snow Road near Mesilla and the NMSU Plant Science Center
CL has had an EASTERN PHOEBE. JZ and MS found it on January 7 with a SORA.
CL had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in the area on January 12. On January 15 he
had a YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER female near Mesilla Dam a mile north of the west
end of NM 374.
MS and JZ saw a CACKLING GOOSE at Burn Lake in Las Cruces with 37 CANADA
GEESE on January 12. LS had a large flock of CATTLE EGRETS near the lake on
January 10.
At Fairview on the west side of the Rio Grande LS had a large flock of CROWS
on January 10.
Exiting I-10 onto county rd. C01 they found in tobosa grass near a tank four
SPRAGUE'S PIPITS near NM 549. CL on January 12 found three pipits west of
the tank.
JP, WW, and MB at the NMSU cattle pens on January 13 saw a male and three
female BRONZED COWBIRDS.
JZ and MS at their home near Radium Springs had a a female ANNA'S
HUMMINGBIRD appear January 9. It was still present January 16. A female RUDDY
GROUND-DOVE, perhaps the same present last fall, came to their yard on January 15
and 16. Also seen was a tan-striped WHITE-THROATED SPARROW January 16.
In Otero County:
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. On January 12 JP, WW, and MB found the DUNLIN
still at the lakes.
INITIALS USED:
MB, Matt Bauman; DBe, David Beatty; JB, Jim Black; DC, David Cleary; SNC,
Steve and Nancy Cox; GE, Guy Emerson; SF, Steve Fettig; MH, Michael
Hilchey; BH, Bill Howe; BJ, Bob Johnson; LL, Lane Leckman; EL, Gene Lewis;
CL, Carl Lundblad; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; DP, Danny Paez; JP, John
Parmeter; JPa, James Paton; NP, Nick Pederson; MR, Mary Ristow; PS, Peter
Salomon; LS, Lorraine Schulte; MS. Marcy Scott; KS, Ken Stinnett; BT, Bill
Talbot; BV, Brad Vaughn; WW, Bill Wittman; CW, Cole Wolf; JY, John Yerger;
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. On January 25 tht trip planned is perhaps to Cochiti Lake with Sei
Tokuda.
The next banding dates for the Sandia Crest rosy finches will be on Sundays,
January 21 and 28.
Central Audubon will bird the Las Vegas and Maxwell Refuges on the weekend
of January 20-21. Contact is Sei Tokuda at 266-2480 or Sonia Santa Anna at
688-0688.
Southwestern Audubon will bird Lake Roberts on Saturday, January 20. Call
534-1450 for information. Trip has been canceled because of snow warnings.
- End transcript.
* New Mexico Bird Report
* January 18, 2007
* NMEX0701.18
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax, San Miguel, Sierra)
Horned Grebe (San Miguel, Quay)
Cattle Egret (Doņa Ana)
White-faced Ibis (Valencia)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Socorro)
Cackling and Canada Geese (Doņa Ana)
Cinnamon Teal (Socorro)
White-winged Scoter (Colfax)
Long-tailed Duck (Colfax)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Colfax)
Common Goldeneye (Grant, Sandoval)
Osprey (Sierra)
White-tailed Kite (Hidalgo)
Bald Eagle (Colfax, Sierra)
Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk (San Miguel, Doņa Ana)
Rough-legged Hawk (Colfax, San Miguel)
Ferruginous Hawk (San Miguel)
Northern Bobwhite (Quay)
Montezuma Quail (Hidalgo)
Sora and Common Moorhen (Doņa Ana)
Sandhill Crane (Doņa Ana)
Black-necked Stilt (Doņa Ana)
Dunlin (Otero)
Wilson's Snipe (Doņa Ana)
Bonaparte's Gull (Sierra)
California Gull (Sierra, Doņa Ana)
MEW GULL (Sierra, Doņa Ana)
Herring Gull (Sierra, Doņa Ana)
Thayer's Gull (Sierra)
ICELAND GULL (Doņa Ana)
White-winged Dove (San Miguel)
RUDDY Ground-Dove (Doņa Ana)
Whiskered Screech-Owl. (Hidalgo)
Long-eared Owl (Hidalgo)
Anna's Hummingbird (Doņa Ana)
Military Macaw escape (Doņa Ana)
Acorn Woodpecker (Doņa Ana)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sierra, Socorro)
Arizona Woodpecker (Hidalgo)
Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker (Doņa Ana)
Hammond's Flycatcher (Sierra)
Dusky Flycatcher (Doņa Ana)
Eastern Phoebe (Doņa Ana, Socorro)
Northern Shrike (Colfax)
Cassin's and Hutton's Vireos (Doņa Ana)
Pinyon Jay (Grant)
American Crow (Doņa Ana)
Mountain Chickadee (Doņa Ana)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Doņa Ana)
Brown Creeper (Sierra)
American Dipper (Sierra)
Townsend's Solitaire (Doņa Ana)
Brown Thrasher (Quay)
Sprague's Pipit (Socorro, Doņa Ana)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Doņa Ana)
Slate-colored Fox Sparrows (Bernalillo, Socorro)
Lincoln's Sparrow (Doņa Ana)
Swamp Sparrow (Quay)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro, Sierra, Doņa Ana)
Lapland Longspur (Bernalillo)
Longspurs (Socorro, Doņa Ana)
Bronzed Cowbird (Doņa Ana)
Rosy Finches (Bernalillo)
Lawrence's Goldfinch (Hidalgo)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
date: January 18, 2007
compiler Patricia R. Snider
Phone: 719-846-3174
Cell phone 505-803-1807
e-mail address _pinyonjay@aol.com_ (mailto:pinyonjay@aol.com)
I have moved to Colorado.
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for January 18, 2007,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are
given for private property, please call before going. Highlights: ICELAND GULL,
Mew Gulls, Thayer's Gull.
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
_www.birder.com_ (http://www.birder.com) 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 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 Sandoval County:
BH found Cochiti Lake totally frozen for the first time on January 15.
Ducks were on the Rio at the Spillway including COMMON GOLDENEYES.
In San Miguel County:
On January 5 CW, MH, and BT on Conchas Lake saw several HORNED GREBES. On
January 6 JP and WW saw three COMMON LOONS there. At the Adobe Belle Resort
there was a WHITE-WINGED DOVE.
MR and SF found most of the lakes at the Las Vegas Refuge frozen. There
were two ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, up to five FERRUGINOUS HAWKS, and a HARLAN'S HAWK.
In Colfax County:
Lake 13 on the Maxwell Refuge has been frozen.
On nearby Stubblefield Lake DC found a few spots open with two COMMON LOONS.
At the lake on December 28 he saw 28 BALD EAGLES. On January 1 DC found
the female LONG-TAILED DUCK, two BARROW'S GOLDENEYES, and the female
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER.
On NM 445 north of Maxwell there was a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and a NORTHERN
SHRIKE on January 1.
In Quay County:
At Ute Lake on January 6 JP and WW saw about two HORNED GREBES, a BROWN
THRASHER, two SWAMP SPARROWS, and a BOBWHITE.
In Bernalillo County:
At the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque DP had a SLATE-COLORED FOX
SPARROW at the observation feeder. CW saw it on January 9, BV on January 13,
and JP on January 14.
JP had fly-over calling LAPLAND LONGSPURS over Kirtland AFB on January 10.
At the Sandia Crest House east of Albuquerque there is a good number of
BLACK ROSY-FINCHES with a few BROWN-CAPPED and GRAY-CROWNED. The SNC banding
team reported that in spite of the cold and wind on January 14 they banded 127
ROSY FINCHES. 44 were GRAY-CROWNED, with of these there was an amazing 21 of
the HEPBURN'S race (47 so far this winter!). Also banded were two
BROWN-CAPPED and 81 BLACKS.
In Valencia County:
JP, WW, and MB on January 13 found the WHITE-FACED IBIS back at the Taco
Bell Marsh in Belen.
In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio on January 5 JP, WW, and LL
found the YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, FOX SPARROW, and two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS
at the visitor center. DP on January 7 saw the sapsucker, white-throated
sparrows. BV on January 13 found four WHITE-FRONTED GEESE and two CINNAMON
TEAL at the south end of the Farm Loop. JP, WW, and MB had the EASTERN PHOEBE
at the Flight Deck January 13.
In the area 16 miles east of San Antonio on County Rd. 127 JP, WW, and LL on
January 5 found one SPRAGUE'S PIPIT with many longspurs.
JO has had three WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS at his home in Luis Lopez south of
Socorro.
In Sierra County:
At Percha Dam State Park JP, WW, and MB found the DIPPER still present with
an OSPREY, a calling HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER, a BROWN CREEPER, and the immature
YELLOW=BELLIED SAPSUCKER on January 13. CL on January 14 saw two
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE a quarter mile south of Percha.
CL found an adult MEW GULL on Caballo Lake on December 29 at a road marked
Caballo Dam East. It was at Percha Flats below the dam for JP, WW, and MB on
January 13 with a COMMON LOON. BJ and others found a BONAPARTE'S GULL at the
boat ramp on January 14. At Riverside Park below the dam JP reported a
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. CL found a HOUSE WREN there January 14.
CL on December 22 at Elephant Butte Lake's Rock Canyon Marina recorded a
CALIFORNIA GULL with several HERRING GULLS. JP, WW, and MB on January 13 had an
adult THAYER'S GULL on the breakwater with the Herring Gulls.
In Grant County:
GE had a BALD EAGLE at the Tyrone Sewage Ponds on January 7.
DBe reported 150 PINYON JAYS near the Bear Mt. Lodge north of Silver City on
December 21.
EL at Roberts Lake on January 5 found a pair of COMMON GOLDENEYE with a SORA
and two adult BALD EAGLES.
In Hidalgo County:
PL on January 15 spotted a WHITE-TAILED KITE south of Animas.
NP and MB on January 5 at the San Simon Cienega north of Rodeo found at
least seven LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCHES. It is at mile marker 16.7 on US 80 on a dirt
road at a cattle guard. MH, CW, and BT did not find the goldfinches on
January 13.
In Clanton Canyon on December 30 JP reported a MONTEZUMA QUAIL on the road.
MH, CW, and BT on January 13 had four ARIZONA WOODPECKERS, four WHISKERED
SCREECH-OWLS and a LONG-EARED OWL.
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 Doņa Ana County:
JPa found a first winter ICELAND GULL on the Sunland Park racetrack pond
December 5. It stays on the lake's east side with a HERRING GULL and seems to
appear in the late afternoon. JP advises that one needs to get permission to
look for it from the casino's office near the Jackpot Grill. There is a
platform from which one can scope. But JB and JO say that the racetrack does NOT
want ANY birders there when the horses are racing on Tuesdays, Fridays,
Saturdays, and Sundays beginning at 12:15 p.m. JPa saw it on January 8 with an
adult MEW GULL. MS and JZ on January 12 found three adult CALIFORNIAS and the
Mew Gull. JP, WW, and MB on January 12 from outside the fence on the north
end saw the two adult Californias, an immature Herring, and at 4:30 the
Iceland, but no Mew Gull. KS reported it in January 15, PS on January 17. On
January 14 JY reported the Herring, Iceland, and California Gulls with the
escaped MILITARY MACAW seen again in the area.
Along the Rio Grande near the track JP saw four BLACK-NECKED STILTS, an
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, and two MOORHENS on January 12. KS on January 15 on
McNutt Rd. in Santa Teresa saw 20 LEAST SANDPIPERS on the Rio.
JZ and MS saw 34 SNIPES at Swan Pond on January 15. In an alfalfa field
near Garfield there were 1100 SANDHILL CRANES. CL on January 14 found a calling
DUSKY FLYCATCHER at Leasburg State Park. It was not seen by JZ and MS
January 16.
On January 14 in the Uvas Valley west of Hatch CL found CHESTNUT-COLLARED
LONGSPURS and SAGE SPARROWS. JZ and MS on January 16 found many of the
sparrows.
On January 8 at Aguirre Springs SP east of the Organ Mts. MS and JZ found on
the entrance road a CASSIN'S VIREO. On the Pine Tree Trail there were
several ACORN WOODPECKERS with a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the trail's head.
CL in Fillmore Canyon on the west side of the Organ Mts. on January 8 saw
two HUTTON'S VIREOS. JZ and MS in the canyon near the spring saw the
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, a SOLITAIRE, one MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE, and LINCOLN'S SPARROWS.
At a ditch off of Snow Road near Mesilla and the NMSU Plant Science Center
CL has had an EASTERN PHOEBE. JZ and MS found it on January 7 with a SORA.
CL had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in the area on January 12. On January 15 he
had a YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER female near Mesilla Dam a mile north of the west
end of NM 374.
MS and JZ saw a CACKLING GOOSE at Burn Lake in Las Cruces with 37 CANADA
GEESE on January 12. LS had a large flock of CATTLE EGRETS near the lake on
January 10.
At Fairview on the west side of the Rio Grande LS had a large flock of CROWS
on January 10.
Exiting I-10 onto county rd. C01 they found in tobosa grass near a tank four
SPRAGUE'S PIPITS near NM 549. CL on January 12 found three pipits west of
the tank.
JP, WW, and MB at the NMSU cattle pens on January 13 saw a male and three
female BRONZED COWBIRDS.
JZ and MS at their home near Radium Springs had a a female ANNA'S
HUMMINGBIRD appear January 9. It was still present January 16. A female RUDDY
GROUND-DOVE, perhaps the same present last fall, came to their yard on January 15
and 16. Also seen was a tan-striped WHITE-THROATED SPARROW January 16.
In Otero County:
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. On January 12 JP, WW, and MB found the DUNLIN
still at the lakes.
INITIALS USED:
MB, Matt Bauman; DBe, David Beatty; JB, Jim Black; DC, David Cleary; SNC,
Steve and Nancy Cox; GE, Guy Emerson; SF, Steve Fettig; MH, Michael
Hilchey; BH, Bill Howe; BJ, Bob Johnson; LL, Lane Leckman; EL, Gene Lewis;
CL, Carl Lundblad; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; DP, Danny Paez; JP, John
Parmeter; JPa, James Paton; NP, Nick Pederson; MR, Mary Ristow; PS, Peter
Salomon; LS, Lorraine Schulte; MS. Marcy Scott; KS, Ken Stinnett; BT, Bill
Talbot; BV, Brad Vaughn; WW, Bill Wittman; CW, Cole Wolf; JY, John Yerger;
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. On January 25 tht trip planned is perhaps to Cochiti Lake with Sei
Tokuda.
The next banding dates for the Sandia Crest rosy finches will be on Sundays,
January 21 and 28.
Central Audubon will bird the Las Vegas and Maxwell Refuges on the weekend
of January 20-21. Contact is Sei Tokuda at 266-2480 or Sonia Santa Anna at
688-0688.
Southwestern Audubon will bird Lake Roberts on Saturday, January 20. Call
534-1450 for information. Trip has been canceled because of snow warnings.
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