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May 12, 2008
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- RBA
* New Mexico Bird Report
* May 12, 2008
* NMEX0805.12
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Hotline New Mexico
date: May 12, 2008
compiler Patricia R. Snider
Phone: 719-846-3174
Cell phone 505-803-1807
e-mail address _pinyonjay@aol.com_ (mailto:pinyonjay@aol.com)
This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for
May 12, 2008 sponsored by the New Mexico Ornithological
Society. When phone numbers are given for private
property, please call before going to ask permission.
Highlights: Glossy Ibis, Blue-winged, Yellow-throated,
Palm, Hooded, Prothonotary, and Kentucky Warblers.
Places mentioned and a checklist of N.M. birds are in the
N.M. Bird Finding Guide. Check for earlier reports at
_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 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) .
Birds Mentioned and Counties:
Common Loon (Sierra)
Pied-billed Grebe (Eddy)
Great Egret (San Miguel)
Green Heron (Sierra)
Yellow-crowned Night-heron (Socorro)
Glossy Ibis (Socorro)
White-faced Ibis (DeBaca)
Canvasback (Eddy)
Northern Goshawk (Grant)
Gray Hawk (Hidalgo, Eddy)
Swainson’s Hawk (Doña Ana)
Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Chaves)
Wild Turkey (Bernalillo, Socorro), Gould’s (Hidalgo)
Black-bellied Plover (Sierra)
American Golden-plover (Chaves)
Snowy Plover (Eddy)
Sanderling (Sierra)
Semipalmated Plover (Valencia)
Willet (Socorro)
Marbled Godwit (Socorro, Bernalillo)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Socorro)
Wilson’s Phalarope (Socorro)
Red-necked Phalarope (Chaves)
Bonaparte’s Gull (Sierra)
Caspian and Forster’s Terns (Sierra)
Band-tailed Pigeon (Grant)
Flammulated and Northern Saw-whet Owls (Bernalillo)
Northern Pygmy-owl (Grant)
Blue-throated Hummingbird (Grant)
Anna’s Hummingbird (Doña Ana)
Calliope Hummingbird (Socorro)
Greater Pewee (Hidalgo)
Gray Flycatcher (Otero, Sierra)
Dusky Flycatcher (Valencia)
empidonax flycatchers (Sierra)
Eastern Phoebe (Sandova)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Socorro, Sierra)
Brown-crested Flycatcher (Sierra)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Socorro)
White-eyed Vireo (Eddy)
Gray Vireo (Santa Fe)
Cassin’s Vireo (Eddy, Socorro, Otero)
Warbling Vireo (Chaves)
Red-eyed Vireo (Roosevelt)
Cave Swallow (Doña Ana)
Bushtit (Doña Ana)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Roosevelt)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Chaves)
Phainopepla (Eddy)
Cedar Waxwing (Sierra)
Olive Warbler (Grant)
Blue-winged Warbler (Santa Fe)
WORM-EATING WARBLER (Eddy, Grant)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Doña Ana)
Nashville Warbler (Roosevelt, Bernalillo, Chaves)
Northern Parula (Roosevelt)
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler (Socorro)
Yellow-throated Warbler (Roosevelt)
Townsend’s Warbler (Socorro)
Palm Warbler (Socorro)
Prothonotary Warbler (Socorro)
American Redstart (Roosevelt)
Kentucky Warbler (Cibola, Eddy, Socorro)
Northern Waterthrush (Santa Fe, Bernalillo, Roosevelt,
Sierra)
Hooded Warbler (Sierra, Bernalillo)
Hepatic Tanager (Bernalillo, Cibola)
Green-tailed Towhee (Socorro, Chaves)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Doña Ana)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Otero)
Lark Bunting (Santa Fe)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (Roosevelt)
White-throated Sparrow (Socorro)
Yellow-eyed Junco (Grant)
Northern Cardinal (Chaves)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Roosevelt, Bernalillo, Eddy)
Indigo Bunting (Socorro, Doña Ana, Valencia, Eddy)
Varied Bunting (Eddy)
Eastern Meadowlark (Cibola)
Bronzed Cowbird (Chaves)
Orchard Oriole (Roosevelt)
Hooded Oriole (Doña Ana)
Bullock’s Oriole (Cibola)
Scott’s Oriole (Socorro, Otero)
Cassin’s Finch (Doña Ana, Socorro)
Red Crossbill (Grant)
Pine Siskin (Chaves)
In Sandoval County:
JK at Cochiti Lake on May 7 had an EASTERN PHOEBE.
In Santa Fe County:
MR on May 11 had two GRAY VIREOS (possibly migrants) at
the Caja del Rio in Santa Fe.
JB had a female BLUE-WINGED WARBLER in Galisteo on May 7.
RY at the Alameda Middle School in Santa Fe had LARK
BUNTINGS on May 6.
On May 4 JB had a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Cerrillos.
In San Miguel County:
At the Las Vegas Refuge at Brown’s Marsh JA on May 2 had
two GREAT EGRETS.
In DeBaca County:
{LG and AMa on May 10 had in a flooded field near Fort
Sumner WHITE-FACED IBIS].
In Roosevelt County:
At the migrant trap west of Melrose MB, NP, and JO on May
5 saw the NORTHERN PARULA, a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and an
ORCHARD ORIOLE. At the trap on May 10 LG and AMa had the
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, HEPATIC TANAGER, LINCOLN’S
SPARROW, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, and YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLER.
At Boones Draw near Portales JO on May 4 had an AMERICAN
REDSTART, and a RED-EYED VIREO. MB and NP on May 5 found
hree ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS and two NASHVILLE WARBLERS.
In Curry County:
At the Clovis Sewage Ponds be sure to tell them that you
are there to bird.
In Cibola County:
At the El Morro NM on May 4 SB found a KENTUCKY WARBLER
on the Inscription Trail (photos}. It was still seen by
CJG and MB on May 7 and on May 9 with EASTERN MEADOWLARKS still present. On
May 9 CJG had a male BULLOCK’S ORIOLE and a pair of HEPATIC TANAGERS.
In Bernalillo County:
JJ on May 5 had a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH south of Tingley
Beach and west of Central.
LB reported a HOODED WARBLER in Tijeras on May 5. Report
sent to SOW.
JJ on May 3 heard TURKEYS on the Cienega Trail in the
Sandias, with FLAMMULATED OWLS calling at the Doc Long
Picnic Area, at mile post 5 on the road, at the Tree
Spring Trailhead, and Dry Camp Picnic Area with a SAW-
WHET OWL heard at a turnout a quarter mile below the ski
area.
LG had a male HEPATIC TANAGER on the UNM campus on May 5
southwest of the duck pond and south of Scholes Hall.
JJ on May 4 recorded a MARBLED GODWIT at the Tramway
Wetlands.
In Valencia County:
DH on May 3 had a SEMIPALMATGED PLOVER at the Taco Bell
marsh in Belen. BV on May 4 had the plover with a pair
of INDIGO BUNTINGS and a DUSKY FLYCATCHER at the Belen
Bosque.
In Socorro County:
At the Bosque del Apache Refuge near San Antonio DH on
May 3 saw the SCOTT’S ORIOLE pair in the Cactus Garden,
and a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER at the northeast corner
of the Farm Loop. MH on May 3 found a PALM WARBLER on
the seasonal road after it turns to the northeast and the
GLOSSY IBIS on the east side of the Marsh Loop. CW, MB,
and NP on May 2 had two SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS near the
heronry, several WILLETS, and three MARBLED GODWITS. CR
on May 3 found two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS at the Norton
Blind and 14 TURKEYS on the Marsh Loop. DC on May 7
found the YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON adult and the glossy
ibis still at the south end of the Marsh Loop with a
CASSIN’S VIREO at the Quail Pond. The WILSON’S PHALAROPE
count was down to 883. JL ON May 4 had the heron and a MARBLED GODWIT.
At Turtle Bay Park on the NMTU campus in Socorro MH on
May 3 had a pair of TOWNSEND’S WARBLERS, and a male
CASSIN’S FINCH. JB found a KENTUCKY WARBLER on May 10.
JS, JO, and JB on May 11 at the park had
a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. SM on May 6 had a male INDIGO
BUNTING and a MYRTLE WARBLER
At the Monica Cabin in the San Mateo Mountains on May 4
SM had a male VERMILION FLYCATCHER.
In downtown Socorro at Lopezville Rd. and the NMT golf
course SM saw two SCOTT’S ORIOLES.
JO at his home near Luis Lopez south of Socorro on May 8
had a female CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD at his feeder with the
male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK still seen.
In Chaves County:
At Bitter Lake Refuge LM and JoO on May 3 at the refuge
recorded a GOLDEN PLOVER on Unit 15 and two RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES at the Oxbow Slough.
MH, SNC, and LG on April 19 found up to 25 LESSER PRAIRIE
CHICKENS in the Mesacalero Sands leks near the Waldrop
Rest Stop 40 miles east of Roswell on US380.
At the rest stop south of Mesa on US 285 LG and AMa had a
WARBLING VIREO, two CURVE-BILLED THRASHERS, a NASHVILLE
WARBLER, CARDINAL, PINE SISKIN, and a GREEN-TAILED
TOWHEE.
In Sierra County:
On May 10 DC had on the breakwater at the Rock Canyon
Marina a CASPIAN TERN and two BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. DC
found no tern or plovers on May 11 at the Rock Canyon
Marina, but had 14 FORSTER’S TERNS.
At Percha Dam State Park on May 5 DC had two GREEN
HERONS, five VERMILION FLYCATCHERS, a NORTHERN
WATERTHRSU, and two GRAY FLYCATCHERS with three other
empidonaces, and five GREEN-TAILED TOWHEES.
At the Elephant Butte SP main entance DC on May 5 saw
four SANDERLINGS and a BONAPARTE’S GULL. At the Dam Site
Marina on May 8 JL had a COMMON LOON in breeding
plumage.
On May 5 at the Paseo del Rio Park below the Elephant
Butte Dam DC found a male BRONZED COWBIRD.
DC on May 2 had two BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHERS at the
creek crossing in upper LAS Animas Canyon.
JL at his home on May 8 had CEDAR WAXWINGS.
In Grant County:
JBi on May 1 had a WORM-EATING WARBLER south of Silver
City along the lower San Vicente Creek (photo).
In the Burro Mountains south of Silver City on Jack’s
Peak DG on May 2 to 6 found the GOSHAWK, many BAND-TAILED
PIGEONS, four calling PYGMY OWLS, a BLUE-THROATED
HUMMINGBIRD , five RED CROSSBILLS, a singing OLIVE
WARBLER, and four pairs of YELLOW-EYED JUNCOS.
The Hummingbird Festival at Lake Roberts has been
canceled this year.
In Hidalgo County:
SOW and HW in Clanton Canyon south of Animas saw GOULD’S
TURKEYS at Blair Well at the canyon mouth and at the Oak
Grove on May 1. A GREATER PEWEE was singing at the
Geronimo Seep on May 1.
They had an adult GRAY HAWK on the Diamond A Ranch land
on April 30 near Cloverdale. Don’t get an inch off the road to look for it.
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 Doña Ana County:
JL at Aguirre Springs SP east of Las Cruces had a BUSHTIT and RUFOUS-CROWNED
SPARROW.
JN on May 4 at the Mesilla Valley Bosque Park had a
a male ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD with a few CAVE SWALLOWS.
At their home near Radium Springs MS recorded a pair of
HOODED OIOLES. On May 2 in the yard she saw a female
CASSIN’S FINCH. The pair of Hooded Orioles were still
seen on May 2-3.
LS on May 10 still had the pair of HOODED ORIOLES at her
Las Cruces home plus an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER and a fly
over SWAINSON’S HAWK.
In Otero County:
At the Holloman Lakes near Alamogordo the lakes are open
to birding, but permission is needed from Holloman AF
Base to bird the Lake G area to the north.
JN at the White Sands NM on May 7 saw CASSIN’S VIREO,
SCOTT’S ORIOLE, and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW.
In Eddy County:
At Rattlesnake Springs SW on May 3 found the GRAY HAWK
and a PHAINOPEPLA. JL on May 6 had a female KENTUCKY
WARBLER at the springs and an INDIGO BUNTING. KSo on May
7 found the WORM-EATING WARBLER along the stream across
from the restrooms, and a WHITE-EYED VIREO by the ditch.
On May 8 there was a VARIED BUNTING male on the fence
along the ditch. LG and AMa on May 11 had a ROSE-
BREASTED GROSBEAK. At the adjacent Washington Ranch JL
on May 6 found there was a PIED-BILLED GREBE, CANVASBACK,
and LUCY’S WARBLER.
At Brantley Lake JL on May 6 had two SNOWY PLOVERS].
Initials of Observers:
JA, Jan Arrott; JB, Jonathan Batkin; MB, Matt Baumann;
SB, Sarah Beckwith; JBi, Jerry Bird; LB, Linda Butler;
DC, David Cleary; SNC, Steve and Nancy Cox; CD, Carol
Davis; LG, Larry Gorbet; DG, David Griffin; CJG, C.J.
Grimes; DH, David Hawksworth; MH, Michael Hilchey;
JJ, Jim Joseph; JK, John Kippe; JL, Joe LaFleur; AMa,
Ashli Maruster; SM, Sonja Mendoza; LM, Linda Mowbray;
JN, Josh Nemeth; JO, Jerry Oldenettel; JoO, Jo
Osterhouse; JP, John Parmeter; NP, Nick Pederson; MR,
Mary Ristow; CR, Chris Rustay; LS, Lorraine Schulte;
MS, Marcy Scott; JS, John Shipman; KSo, Krista Sorra;
BT, Bill Talbot; RV, Raymond VanBuskirk; BV, Brad
Vaughn; HW, Hira Walker; SW, Steve West; SOW, Sandy Williams; CW,
Cole Wolf, RY, Rob Yaksich.
Field Trips:
Central Audubon in Albuquerque has Thursday field trips.
on May 15 to Hondo Canyon in the southern Sandias with
Mary Lou Arthur, 299-2565.
On Saturday, May 17, Central Audubon will check out the
Quarai Ruins led by Cole Wolf and Jim Mosley. For
information call Cole at 505-553-4831.
On Saturday, May 24, Mesilla Valley Audubon will explore
around the homes for migrants in Mesilla at the Dam,
canals, and driveways to Mesilla Park. Contact is David
Griffin at 575-382-2080.
Sunday, May 25, Central Audubon will bird Orilla Verde
near Pilar. Contact is Jerry Friedman at 505-753-1946.
The Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque has Saturday
and Sunday morning hikes at 8:30 a.m. through May. There
is a parking fee.
The Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe on Upper
Canyon Road has Saturday morning bird walks beginning at
8:30 until 9:30.
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