- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* November 21, 2005
* NMEX0511.21
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Neotropic Cormorant (Grant)
American Bittern (Chaves)
Great Egret (Socorro)
Cattle Egret (Sierra)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Bernalillo, Chaves)
Ross's Goose (San Miguel)
Cackling Goose (Bernalillo, San Miguel)
Tundra Swan (Colfax)
Eurasian Wigeon (Bernalillo)
Hybrid wigeon (Socorro)
Greater Scaup (San Miguel)
LONG-TAILED DUCK (Colfax)
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE (Colfax)
Hooded Merganser (Bernalillo, Doņa Ana)
Bald Eagle (Grant, Colfax)
Harris's Hawk (Otero)
Rough-legged and Ferruginous Hawks (San Miguel)
Merlin (Socorro)
Sandhill Crane (Otero)
Bonaparte's Gull (Otero, Colfax)
California Gull (Colfax)
Inca Dove (Socorro)
Ruddy Ground-Dove (Luna)
Flammulated Owl (Chaves)
Whiskered-Screech-Owl (Hidalgo)
Burrowing Owl (Doņa Ana)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Sierra)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Socorro)
Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker (Roosevelt)
Empidonax (Dusky?) Flycatcher (Sierra)
Eastern Phoebe (Socorro)
Plumbeous Vireo (Sierra)
Hutton's Vireo (Socorro)
Cave Swallow (Eddy)
Cactus Wren (Socorro)
Winter Wren (Torrance)
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Socorro)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo, Roosevelt, Sierra)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Bernalillo)
Sprague's Pipit (Socorro)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Doņa Ana, Sierra)
Common Yellowthroat (Doņa Ana)
Fox Sparrow (Grant)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro, Bernalillo, Colfax, Sierra)
Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco (Colfax)
Yellow-eyed Junco (Hidalgo)
McCown's and Chestnut-collared Longspurs (Socorro)
Lapland Longspur (San Miguel)
Pyrrhuloxia (Roosevelt)
Bullock's Oriole (Sierra)
BLACK ROSY-FINCH (Bernalillo)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: November 21, 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 November 21, 2005,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Sprague's
Pipits, White-fronted Geese, Eurasian Wigeon, Black Rosy-Finches, Barrow's
Goldeneye, Long-tailed Duck.
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 RBAs 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 or to
sunbittern@earthlink.net.
In San Miguel County:
CR, RV, and MH on November 13 took the trip to the back of the Las Vegas
Refuge. They saw a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, eight FERRUGINOUS HAWKS, two LAPLAND
LONGSPURS, and on McAllister Lake nine GREATER SCAUP, 50 ROSS'S and eight
CACKLING GEESE.
In Colfax County:
DC at the Sugarite State Park near Raton on November 12 at the visitor
center feeder found a tan phase WHITE-THROATED SPARROW and three SLATE-COLORED
JUNCOS.
On Stubblefield Lake DC had a male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE on November 16. On
November 18 there was a female LONG-TAILED DUCK and a female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE.
The Long-tailed Duck and a COMMON LOON were present on November 20.
At Springer Lake DC saw four BONAPARTE'S GULLS on November 17 with three
TUNDRA SWANS on a pond at the Vermejo Ranch.
. On November 18 DC had eight CALIFORNIA GULLS and two BALD EAGLES on Eagle
Nest Lake.
DC reports that Lake 14 on the nearby Maxwell Refuge is closed for the
winter.
In Bernalillo County:
A report came from KS that GR saw a few BLACK ROSY-FINCHES that have
already arrived at the Crest House feeders on Sandia Crest east of Albuquerque on
November 12. DO saw them on November 14.
At the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque CP on November 12 saw a
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the Herb Garden feeder. A WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was
seen with 318 CACKLING GEESE on the pond by the parking lot by JP and BP on
November 12. JSt on November 13 saw the white-fronted goose and three HOODED
MERGANSERS. RY on November 14 saw both geese species, two of the mergansers, and
the EURASIAN WIGEON on November 14. DP had two WHITE-FRONTED GEESE November
19.
BV had a female EASTERN BLUEBIRD on November 12 on Forest Road 252 3/4
mile below the Cedro Peak Trailhead in the Manzanita Mts. south of Tijeras.
RY reports that a feeder named after Ryan has been placed at the visitor
center windows at the nature center. He says on November 12 a CURVE-BILLED
THRASHER was in the chollas at the entrance gate.
In Torrance County:
JJ found two WINTER WRENS in Trigo Canyon of the Manzano Mts. Wilderness
area on November 13.
In Roosevelt County:
DC on November 15 at the migrant trap 11 miles west of Melrose had a
YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER, three EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, and the PYRRHULOXIA.
In Socorro County:
On highway 380 east of San Antonio between mile markers 16 and 17 there
is a dirt road going north by grassy fields. After a jog in the road there is
a tank with a berm. Half a mile beyond JP, JO, BP, and LL found five
SPRAGUE'S PIPITS with hundreds of CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPURS, tens of MCCOWN'S
LONGSPURS, and two CACTUS WRENS. MB and NP found two of the pipits there on
November 13.
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio BH saw the WHITE-THROATED
SPARROW at the visitor center on November 12. CL on November 13 saw two EASTERN
PHOEBES, two INCA DOVES at the Cactus Garden, a MERLIN, and late was a GREAT
EGRET. CR saw a White-throated Sparrow and SNC banded a BLACK-TAILED
GNATCATCHER on November 19.
CL on November 13 again saw the hybrid AMERICAN X EURASIAN WIGEON at
Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU campus in Socorro. CR on November 19 a YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER and a HUTTON'S VIREO there.
In Chaves County:
SW on November 20 at Bitter Lake Refuge near Roswell had an AMERICAN
BITTERN, three WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, and found a dead FLAMMULATED OWL.
In Sierra County:
CL on November 20 at Percha Dam State Park had a late BULLOCK'S ORIOLE,
two PLUMBEOUS VIREOS, two ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, three WHITE-THROATED
SPARROWS, an EMPIDONAX FLYCATCHER (possibly a DUSKY), with a CATTLE EGRET and nine
EASTERN BLUEBIRDS south of the park.
MBr on November 17 had a calling PYGMY OWL at the parking lot on Emory
Pass.
In Grant County:
PT at Roberts Lake had a NEOTROPIC CORMORANT and a BALD EAGLE ON November
8.
RS had a FOX SPARROW on November 11 at the Gila Bird Area.
In Hidalgo County:
In Clanton Canyon on November 9 MBr had a YELLOW-EYED JUNCO at the
campground. For the night shift he had two WHISKERED SCREECH-OWLS there and two
more down canyon at the riparian area a mile after the forest service
boundary.
In Luna County:
LM on November 10 had a RUDDY GROUND-DOVE at the Mountain View Cemetery
in Deming. He advises that the waste water treatment ponds there will be
closed for up to a year with construction.
In Doņa Ana County:
CL on November 19 had an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBER at McDowell and Conway in
Mesilla Park, an immature female YELLOWTHROAT at the Mesilla Valley Bosque
Park (Old Refuge), and a BURROWING OWL on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces near the
livestock pens.
MBr on November 15 had three HOODED MERGANSERS at the Old Refuge area
south of Mesilla with a bobcat and its kitten.
In Otero County:
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo CL reports that the 'no access'
signs are for hunters only. The entire shore is open to birding. On November 16
he had five BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a SANDHILL CRANES there. Four HARRIS'S
HAWKS, three on one pole, were along US 70 at mile marker 208.9 just south of
Alamogordo.
In Eddy County:
SW reports that late CAVE SWALLOWS were still at the Carlsbad Caverns.
On November 13 there were still 38 present with six banded.
Initials Used:
MB, Matt Baumann; MBr, Matt Brooks; DC, David Cleary; SNC, Steve and Nancy
Cox; MH, Michael Hilchey; BH, Bill Howe; JJ, Jim Joseph; LL, Lane
Leckman; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; DO, Dale Ohl;
DP, Danny Paez; BP, Ben Parmeter; JP, John Parmeter; CP, Cathy
Pasterczyk; NP. Nick Pederson; GR, Gene Romero; CR, Chris Rustay; KS, Ken
Schneider;
RS, Roland Shook; JSt, James Stuart; PT, Patricia Taber; RV, Raymond
VanBuskirk; BV, Brad Vaughn; SW, Steve West; RY, Rob Yaksich.
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. There will no trip on Thanksgiving. On December 1 the trip is to the
Domingo Baca Trail on the west side of the Sandias and on December 8 they go to
the Rio Grande Nature Center.
Sundays in November the back roads of the Las Vegas Refuge will be open from
9 to 4 for birding. There will be programs on Sunday at 1. On November 27
the program is the Basics of Birds by Eileen Everett.
Southwestern Audubon will have its annual Winter Raptor Count on Saturday,
December 3. Contact is 388-3441.
Christmas Count dates have been posted on the net by Robert Templeton. To
access go to the NMOS web page (address above) and click on 'excellent site' at
the beginning.
- End transcript
* New Mexico Bird Report
* November 21, 2005
* NMEX0511.21
- Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Colfax)
Neotropic Cormorant (Grant)
American Bittern (Chaves)
Great Egret (Socorro)
Cattle Egret (Sierra)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Bernalillo, Chaves)
Ross's Goose (San Miguel)
Cackling Goose (Bernalillo, San Miguel)
Tundra Swan (Colfax)
Eurasian Wigeon (Bernalillo)
Hybrid wigeon (Socorro)
Greater Scaup (San Miguel)
LONG-TAILED DUCK (Colfax)
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE (Colfax)
Hooded Merganser (Bernalillo, Doņa Ana)
Bald Eagle (Grant, Colfax)
Harris's Hawk (Otero)
Rough-legged and Ferruginous Hawks (San Miguel)
Merlin (Socorro)
Sandhill Crane (Otero)
Bonaparte's Gull (Otero, Colfax)
California Gull (Colfax)
Inca Dove (Socorro)
Ruddy Ground-Dove (Luna)
Flammulated Owl (Chaves)
Whiskered-Screech-Owl (Hidalgo)
Burrowing Owl (Doņa Ana)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Sierra)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Socorro)
Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker (Roosevelt)
Empidonax (Dusky?) Flycatcher (Sierra)
Eastern Phoebe (Socorro)
Plumbeous Vireo (Sierra)
Hutton's Vireo (Socorro)
Cave Swallow (Eddy)
Cactus Wren (Socorro)
Winter Wren (Torrance)
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Socorro)
Eastern Bluebird (Bernalillo, Roosevelt, Sierra)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Bernalillo)
Sprague's Pipit (Socorro)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Doņa Ana, Sierra)
Common Yellowthroat (Doņa Ana)
Fox Sparrow (Grant)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro, Bernalillo, Colfax, Sierra)
Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco (Colfax)
Yellow-eyed Junco (Hidalgo)
McCown's and Chestnut-collared Longspurs (Socorro)
Lapland Longspur (San Miguel)
Pyrrhuloxia (Roosevelt)
Bullock's Oriole (Sierra)
BLACK ROSY-FINCH (Bernalillo)
- Transcript
hotline: New Mexico
Date: November 21, 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 November 21, 2005,
sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society. When phone numbers are given
for private property, please call before going. Highlights are Sprague's
Pipits, White-fronted Geese, Eurasian Wigeon, Black Rosy-Finches, Barrow's
Goldeneye, Long-tailed Duck.
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 RBAs 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 or to
sunbittern@earthlink.net.
In San Miguel County:
CR, RV, and MH on November 13 took the trip to the back of the Las Vegas
Refuge. They saw a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, eight FERRUGINOUS HAWKS, two LAPLAND
LONGSPURS, and on McAllister Lake nine GREATER SCAUP, 50 ROSS'S and eight
CACKLING GEESE.
In Colfax County:
DC at the Sugarite State Park near Raton on November 12 at the visitor
center feeder found a tan phase WHITE-THROATED SPARROW and three SLATE-COLORED
JUNCOS.
On Stubblefield Lake DC had a male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE on November 16. On
November 18 there was a female LONG-TAILED DUCK and a female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE.
The Long-tailed Duck and a COMMON LOON were present on November 20.
At Springer Lake DC saw four BONAPARTE'S GULLS on November 17 with three
TUNDRA SWANS on a pond at the Vermejo Ranch.
. On November 18 DC had eight CALIFORNIA GULLS and two BALD EAGLES on Eagle
Nest Lake.
DC reports that Lake 14 on the nearby Maxwell Refuge is closed for the
winter.
In Bernalillo County:
A report came from KS that GR saw a few BLACK ROSY-FINCHES that have
already arrived at the Crest House feeders on Sandia Crest east of Albuquerque on
November 12. DO saw them on November 14.
At the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque CP on November 12 saw a
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the Herb Garden feeder. A WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was
seen with 318 CACKLING GEESE on the pond by the parking lot by JP and BP on
November 12. JSt on November 13 saw the white-fronted goose and three HOODED
MERGANSERS. RY on November 14 saw both geese species, two of the mergansers, and
the EURASIAN WIGEON on November 14. DP had two WHITE-FRONTED GEESE November
19.
BV had a female EASTERN BLUEBIRD on November 12 on Forest Road 252 3/4
mile below the Cedro Peak Trailhead in the Manzanita Mts. south of Tijeras.
RY reports that a feeder named after Ryan has been placed at the visitor
center windows at the nature center. He says on November 12 a CURVE-BILLED
THRASHER was in the chollas at the entrance gate.
In Torrance County:
JJ found two WINTER WRENS in Trigo Canyon of the Manzano Mts. Wilderness
area on November 13.
In Roosevelt County:
DC on November 15 at the migrant trap 11 miles west of Melrose had a
YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER, three EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, and the PYRRHULOXIA.
In Socorro County:
On highway 380 east of San Antonio between mile markers 16 and 17 there
is a dirt road going north by grassy fields. After a jog in the road there is
a tank with a berm. Half a mile beyond JP, JO, BP, and LL found five
SPRAGUE'S PIPITS with hundreds of CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPURS, tens of MCCOWN'S
LONGSPURS, and two CACTUS WRENS. MB and NP found two of the pipits there on
November 13.
At Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio BH saw the WHITE-THROATED
SPARROW at the visitor center on November 12. CL on November 13 saw two EASTERN
PHOEBES, two INCA DOVES at the Cactus Garden, a MERLIN, and late was a GREAT
EGRET. CR saw a White-throated Sparrow and SNC banded a BLACK-TAILED
GNATCATCHER on November 19.
CL on November 13 again saw the hybrid AMERICAN X EURASIAN WIGEON at
Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU campus in Socorro. CR on November 19 a YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER and a HUTTON'S VIREO there.
In Chaves County:
SW on November 20 at Bitter Lake Refuge near Roswell had an AMERICAN
BITTERN, three WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, and found a dead FLAMMULATED OWL.
In Sierra County:
CL on November 20 at Percha Dam State Park had a late BULLOCK'S ORIOLE,
two PLUMBEOUS VIREOS, two ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, three WHITE-THROATED
SPARROWS, an EMPIDONAX FLYCATCHER (possibly a DUSKY), with a CATTLE EGRET and nine
EASTERN BLUEBIRDS south of the park.
MBr on November 17 had a calling PYGMY OWL at the parking lot on Emory
Pass.
In Grant County:
PT at Roberts Lake had a NEOTROPIC CORMORANT and a BALD EAGLE ON November
8.
RS had a FOX SPARROW on November 11 at the Gila Bird Area.
In Hidalgo County:
In Clanton Canyon on November 9 MBr had a YELLOW-EYED JUNCO at the
campground. For the night shift he had two WHISKERED SCREECH-OWLS there and two
more down canyon at the riparian area a mile after the forest service
boundary.
In Luna County:
LM on November 10 had a RUDDY GROUND-DOVE at the Mountain View Cemetery
in Deming. He advises that the waste water treatment ponds there will be
closed for up to a year with construction.
In Doņa Ana County:
CL on November 19 had an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBER at McDowell and Conway in
Mesilla Park, an immature female YELLOWTHROAT at the Mesilla Valley Bosque
Park (Old Refuge), and a BURROWING OWL on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces near the
livestock pens.
MBr on November 15 had three HOODED MERGANSERS at the Old Refuge area
south of Mesilla with a bobcat and its kitten.
In Otero County:
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo CL reports that the 'no access'
signs are for hunters only. The entire shore is open to birding. On November 16
he had five BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a SANDHILL CRANES there. Four HARRIS'S
HAWKS, three on one pole, were along US 70 at mile marker 208.9 just south of
Alamogordo.
In Eddy County:
SW reports that late CAVE SWALLOWS were still at the Carlsbad Caverns.
On November 13 there were still 38 present with six banded.
Initials Used:
MB, Matt Baumann; MBr, Matt Brooks; DC, David Cleary; SNC, Steve and Nancy
Cox; MH, Michael Hilchey; BH, Bill Howe; JJ, Jim Joseph; LL, Lane
Leckman; CL, Carl Lundblad; LM, Larry Malone; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; DO, Dale Ohl;
DP, Danny Paez; BP, Ben Parmeter; JP, John Parmeter; CP, Cathy
Pasterczyk; NP. Nick Pederson; GR, Gene Romero; CR, Chris Rustay; KS, Ken
Schneider;
RS, Roland Shook; JSt, James Stuart; PT, Patricia Taber; RV, Raymond
VanBuskirk; BV, Brad Vaughn; SW, Steve West; RY, Rob Yaksich.
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. There will no trip on Thanksgiving. On December 1 the trip is to the
Domingo Baca Trail on the west side of the Sandias and on December 8 they go to
the Rio Grande Nature Center.
Sundays in November the back roads of the Las Vegas Refuge will be open from
9 to 4 for birding. There will be programs on Sunday at 1. On November 27
the program is the Basics of Birds by Eileen Everett.
Southwestern Audubon will have its annual Winter Raptor Count on Saturday,
December 3. Contact is 388-3441.
Christmas Count dates have been posted on the net by Robert Templeton. To
access go to the NMOS web page (address above) and click on 'excellent site' at
the beginning.
- End transcript