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*New Mexico Bird Report
*June 29, 2009
*NMEX0906.29
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Hotline New Mexico
date: June 29, 2009
compiler Patricia R. Snider
Phone: 719-846-3174
Cell phone 505-803-1807
e-mail address _pinyonjay@aol.com_ (mailto:pinyonjay@aol.com)
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This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for June 29,
2009, sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological Society.
When phone numbers are given for private property, please call
before going to ask for permission. In ranch country do not
stray off the roads.
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Highlights: Brown Pelicans, Arctic Tern, Black-capped Vireo.
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Places mentioned and a checklist of N.M. birds are in the N.M.
Bird Finding Guide. Check for earlier reports and database at
_http://www.nmbirds.org_ (http://www.nmbirds.org/)
or in the archives of the AZ/NM listserve. For photos of
rarities and directions to some birding sites check
_http://sites.google.com/site/oldenettelspage_
(http://sites.google.com/site/oldenettelspage) .
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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) .
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Birds Mentioned and Counties:
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Western Grebe (Bernalillo)
Neotropic Cormorant (Otero)
Brown Pelican (Guadalupe, San Juan
Great and Snowy Egrets (Otero)
Little Blue Heron (Socorro)
Cattle Egret (Sandoval)
Green-winged Teal (Rio Arriba)
Canvasback and Redhead (Otero)
Ring-necked Duck (Chaves)
Hooded Merganser (Colfax)
Mississippi Kite (Eddy)
Northern Harrier (Eddy)
Gray Hawk (Eddy)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Grant)
Montezuma Quail (Sierra, Grant)
Common Moorhen (Socorro)
Snowy Plover (Chaves, Colfax, Eddy)
Marbled Godwit (Sierra)
White-rumped Sandpiper (Colfax)
Red-necked Phalaropes (Chaves)
Wilson’s Phalarope (Rio Arriba, Chaves, Sierra, Otero)
California Gull (Sierra, San Juan)
Caspian Tern (San Juan)
ARCTIC Tern (Colfax)
Least Tern (Chaves, Eddy)
Eurasian Collared-Dove (Otero)
Band-tailed Pigeon (Grant, Santa Fe)
Common Ground-Dove (Hidalgo)
Barn Owl (Chaves, Grant)
Flammulated Owl (Taos)
Great Horned Owl (Socorro)
Elf Owl (Grant)
Burrowing Owl (Bernalillo)
Pygmy Owl (Taos, Grant)
Spotted Owl (Sierra)
Whip-poor-will (Santa Fe, Grant)
Chimney Swift (Eddy)
Magnificent Hummingbird (Grant)
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Lucifer Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Costa’s and Anna’s Hummingbirds (Hidalgo)
Rufous Hummingbird (Santa Fe)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (Santa Fe)
Three-toed Woodpecker (Santa Fe)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Grant)
Western Wood-Pewee (Eddy)
Gray Flycatcher (Grant)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Catron)
Thick-billed Kingbird (Hidalgo)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Harding)
Horned Lark (Otero)
Bell’s Vireo (Socorro)
Gray Vireo (Eddy, San Miguel)
BLACK-CAPPED VIREO (Eddy)
Yellow-throated Vireo (Eddy)
Cave and Barn Swallows (EddY)
Clark’s Nutcracker (Catron)
Bushtit (Grant)
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Eddy)
Western Bluebird (Grant)
Hermit Thrush (Santa Fe)
Phainopepla (Santa Fe)
Olive Warbler (Grant)
Lucy’s Warbler (Eddy, Doña Ana))
Black-and-White Warbler (Eddy)
Painted Redstart (Grant)
Cassin’s Sparrow (Harding)
Botteri’s Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Rufous-winged Sparrow (Cochise, AZ)
Varied Bunting (Eddy)
Yellow-headed Blackbird (Otero)
Bronzed Cowbird (Sierra, Roosevelt, Eddy. Bernalillo)
Red Crossbill (Grant)
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In San Juan County:
MB on June 19 at Morgan Lake had an adult BROWN PELICAN
at the northeast boat ramp. Also seen at a cove right of
the ramp were the CASPIAN TERN, and several CALIFORNIA GULLS.
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In Sandoval County:
TB had 56 CATTLE EGRETS flying over his home in Corrales
on June 20.
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In Rio Arriba County:
JO at a pond north of the road to Heron Lake on June 20
saw a WILSON’S PHALAROPE, and GREEN-WINGED TEALS.
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.In Taos County:
JP and WW on June 13 at dawn near Ojo Sarco had calling
FLAMMULATED and PYGMY OWLS.
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In Santa Fe County:
RY on June 20 on the Tesuque road to the Santa Fe Ski Basin
saw BAND-TAILED PIGEON AND HERMIT THRUSHES. On the Chamisa
Trail on June 24 there as a female WILLIAMSON’S SAPSUCKER.
JP, WW, and HS on June 19 at the Santa Fe Ski Basin had a
THREE-TOED WOODPECKER.
JB on June 21 on CR 84 (parallel to NM 502) had a
PHAINOPEPLA Fly over the marsh.
JB on June 17 had his first RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD in Santa Fe.
JB on June 11 had a WHIP-POOR-WILL calling in the Black
Canyon campground at Hyde State Park at Santa Fe. It is
west of the loop at the far end and has been calling for
over a week.
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In San Miguel County:
On his Sabinoso BBS CR on June 17 found GRAY VIREOS between
the Canadian River and Sabinoso with a pair on Burro Hill.
In Harding County:
CR on June 17 found good numbers of CASSIN’S SPARROWS
near Roy with a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER on NM 102 east of
Bueyeros.
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In Colfax County:
MB and NP on June 13 had an ARCTIC TERN on Lake 13 of the
Maxwell Refuge with two SNOWY PLOVERS and ten WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPERS. Later JP and WW saw the tern, the plover and
sandpipers, and a male HOODED MERGANSER.
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In Guadalupe County:
RM, ranger at Santa Rosa Lake SP., reported an immature
BROWN PELICAN, present from June 7 to at least June 10, has
been near the boat ramp.
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In Roosevelt County:
HM on June 11 at Oasis SP north of Portales reported a
BRONZED COWBIRD.
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In Bernalillo County:
DE on June 23 at the entrance to the Sandia Casino Golf
Course saw a BURROWING OWL.
And at the Sandia Memorial Garden Cemetery he again saw
a BRONZED COWBIRD.
JJ saw a WESTERN GREBE in the Rio Grande on June 14 between
the Rio Grande Nature Center and the Oxbow.
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In Socorro County:
At Bosque del Apache Refuge on June 20 JP and WW saw a
MOORHEN at the two-way road west on the Farm Loop. Later
there was a singing BELL’S VIREO. Refuge personnel on June
10 reported an adult LITTLE BLUE HERON at the pond on the
east side of the two-way road.
AM on June 24 had two immature GREAT HORNED OWLS at the
Box Canyon on US60 west of Socorro.
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In Chaves County:
At Bitter Lake Refuge on the count of June 17 JSa tallied
two RING-NECKED DUCKS, two LEAST TERNS, 109 SNOWY PLOVERS, 24
WILSON’S PHALAROPES, seven RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and four
BARN OWLS.
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In Sierra/Grant County:
At Emory Pass in the Black Range JP, WW, and LL on June 6 had
two SPOTTED OWLS on the east side.
At the bridge below Kingston there was a male MONTEZUMA QUAIL.
At Hillsboro there was a male BRONZED COWBIRD.
And at North Monticello Point at Elephant Butte Lake on June
20 JP and WW saw two MARBLED GODWITS and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE.
At the Rock Canyon Marina there was a second year CALIFORNIA
GULL.
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In Catron County:
JO on June 19 had three CLARK’S NUTCRACKERS on the south fork
of Negrito Creek and a pair of VERMILION FLYCATCHERS on the San
Francisco River near the Tularosa River.
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In Grant County:
DG in mid-June in the Burro Mountains reported ZONE-TAILED
HAWK, MONTEZUMA QUAIL, BAND-TAILED PIGEONS, BARN OWLS, ELF OWLS,
PYGMY OWLS, WHIP-POOR-WILL, and OLIVE WARBLERS, with a singing
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER on June 22, many GRAY FLYCATCHERS,
BUSHTITS, WESTERN BLUEBIRDS, PAINTED REDSTARTS, and RED
CROSSBILLS.
RS had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK on the road to Bill Evans Lake on
June 15.
JP, WW, and LL on June 4 on Signal Peak there was a a male
MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRD.
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In Hidalgo County:
CW on June 21 had a LUCIFER HUMMINGBIRD in upper Cottonwood
Canyon. He says a fire has been there and in western Clanton.
He put up two feeders six miles west of the cattle guard on the
pass. MB, NP, MH, RV, and CW on June 27-28 had a pair of
LUCIFERS, two male COSTA’S, an immature male ANNA’S, and a
female BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD at the feeders.
In Guadulupe Canyon the group found three THICK-BILLED
KINGBIRDS in the NM part near the ranch. In the AZ part at
the gate there was a RUFOUS-WINGED SPARROW.
CW had a COMMON GROUND-DOVE at Dunagan Crossing south of
Animas on June 21. On June 19 he had the BOTTERI’S SPARROWS
along the road.
Guadalupe Canyon’s owners request that no one park at the
entrance gate where it has been re-seeded.
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.
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In Luna County:
The rancher has objected to any birding around his corral
near Hermanas.
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In Doña Ana County:
MS on June 27 reported the LUCY’S WARBLER is still at their
home near Radium Springs.
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In Otero County:
MS and JZ on June 26 at the Holloman Lakes had a HORNED LARK
feeding fledglings and a pair of YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS.
Also still there was the CANVASBACK and NEOTROPIC CORMORANT
with a REDHEAD, 14 WILSON’S PHALAROPES, two GREAT EGRETS, and
a SNOWY EGRET.
They found rain at Cloudcroft with many wildflowers in lush
country. And along the road to Sunspot there was a EURASIAN
COLLARED-DOVE.
DG reported there has been changes with a kiosk, a boat ramp,
a picnic and camping area, and a bird watching area.
Lagoon G is open to birding again. There is a new sign in
front calling it the Raptor Lake Recreation Area.
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In Eddy County:
In Slaughter Canyon near Rattlesnake Springs there are GRAY
VIREOS and a pair of VARIED BUNTINGS. BW and AF on June 17 had
the BLACK-CAPPED VIREO again. JG and SV found it singing on
June 19 (photo). SW again saw it still singing on June 22.
In West Slaughter Canyon there was a BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER
and he found up to ten GRAY VIREOS.
At Rattlesnake Springs BS on June 13 found a YELLOW-THROATED
VIREO at the adjacent Washington Ranch with LUCY’S WARBLER at
the Springs. He recorded on June 14 the GRAY HAWK. JG had the
one, maybe two, singing Yellow-throats on June 19 with a singing
male BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER at the hackberry grove by the
orchard at the Springs. SW and TH on June 18 had a late
WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE. BW on June 17 recorded two BRONZED
COWBIRDS and the GRAY HAWK.
At Brantley Lake north of Carlsbad BS on June 13 saw
three LEAST TERNS and two SNOWY PLOVERS.
SW and TH had a male HARRIER at the Black River near the
Springs on June 18.
BW on June 17 saw over Carlsbad a CHIMNEY SWIFT and several
MISSISSIPPI KITES.
SW reports that the powers that be in Whites City have torn
down all swallow nests, destroying young and eggs, mostly of
CAVE SWALLOWS, but a few were BARNS.
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Initials of Observers:
JB, Jonathan Batkin; MB, Matt Baumann; TB, Terry Brownell;
DE, David Eulian; AF, Andy Fenner; DG, David Griffin;
JG, John Groves; MH, Michael Hilchey; TH, Tom Hines;
JJ, Jim Joseph; LL, Lane Leckman; HM, Holly Marchman;
AM, Amy Morrison; RM, Robert Mumford; JO, Jerry Oldenettel;
JP, John Parmeter; NP, Nick Pederson; CR, Chris Rustay;
JSa, Jeff Sanchez; BS, Bill Scott; MS, Marcy Scott;
RS, Roland Shook: HS, Heidi Simms; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk;
SV, Steve Vinson; BW, Bill West; SW, Steve West;
WW, Bill Wittman; CW, Cole Wolf; RY, Rob Yaksich;
and JZ, Jimmy Zabriskie; .
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Field Trips:
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Central Audubon in Albuquerque has Thursday field trips.
All phone numbers begin with 505. On July 2 is to Bosque del
Apache Refuge with Rebecca Gracey, 242-3821; on July 9 to
Capulin Springs in the Sandias with the Boettchers, 281-6726;
July 16 to the Sandias for Three-toed Woodpeckers with Gale
Owings, 255-8333; July 23 to the Simm’s Ranch and Bonnie
Long’s home in the Manzanos for a potluck lunch, 379-1985,
and on July 30 in the Sandias to the 10K Trail with Melissa
Howard, 286-9365..
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On Saturday, July 11, Central Audubon will look for Los Alamos
birds to Bandelier and the ski area, the Jemez to Jemez Falls.
Contact is Jim Mosley at _ff1964@msn.com_ (mailto:ff1964@msn.com) .
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On Sunday, July 12, Sangre de Cristo Audubon will bird the
Santa Fe Ski Basin. Contact is Tom Taylor at 424-3238.
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Mesilla Valley Audubon on July 18 will have a possible over
nighter to the Sacramento Mountains, Karr Canyon, and Cloudcroft,
and possibly the Peñasco Rio. For overnighters they will camp
at Bluff Springs. Contact is David Griffin by July 16 at 575-382-
2080.
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The Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe on upper Canyon
Road has Saturday morning bird walks from 8:30 until 9:30.
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The Rio Grande Nature Center has Saturday and Sunday bird
walks at 8:30 in May.
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The Forest Service has bird walks in the Sandia Mountains on
Tuesday mornings. Meet at 8:30 at the Ranger Station in
Tijeras.
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