NM RBA for 7/9/09

- RBA
*New  Mexico Bird Report
*July  9, 2009
*NMEX0907.09
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Hotline New Mexico
date:  July 9, 2009
compiler Patricia R. Snider
Phone:  719-846-3174
Cell  phone 505-803-1807
e-mail  address _pinyonjay@... (mailto:pinyonjay@...)
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This is Pinyon Jay with the New Mexico Bird Report for July 9,
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: Three-toed Woodpecker, Black Hawk, Black Swifts,
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher.
Rufous Hummingbirds are beginning to return.
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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@... (mailto:sunbittern@...) .
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Birds  Mentioned and Counties:
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Neotropic Cormorant (Otero)
American White Pelican (Guadalupe)
Great  and Snowy Egrets (Otero)
Green  Heron (Grant)
Canvasback and Redhead (Otero)
Ring-necked Duck (Chaves)
Common  Merganser (Grant)
Mississippi Kite (Eddy)
Gray  Hawk (Eddy, Cochise Co, AZ)
Common  Black-Hawk(Bernalillo, Grant)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Grant, Hidalgo)
Peregrine Falcon (Bernalillo)
Montezuma Quail (Grant, Hidalgo)
Common  Moorhen (Socorro)
Snowy  Plover (Chaves, Eddy)
Black-necked Stilt (Bernalillo)
Willet  (Guadalupe)
Spotted Sandpiper (Grant)
Marbled Godwit (Sierra)
Wilson’s Snipe (Sandoval)
Red-necked Phalaropes (Chaves)
Wilson’s Phalarope (Sierra, Otero)
Franklin’s Gull (Eddy)
California Gull (Sierra)
Least  Tern (Chaves, Eddy)
Black  Tern (Guadalupe)
Eurasian Collared-Dove (Otero)
Band-tailed Pigeon (Grant, Santa Fe)
Common  Ground-Dove (Hidalgo)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Eddy)
Barn  Owl (Chaves, Grant)
Great  Horned Owl (Socorro)
Elf  Owl (Grant)
Burrowing Owl (Bernalillo)
Pygmy  Owl (Grant)
Common  Nighthawk (Torrance)
Whip-poor-will (Grant)
Chimney Swift (Eddy)
Violet-crowned Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Lucifer Hummingbird (Hidalgo)
Costa’s and Anna’s Hummingbirds (Hidalgo)
Rufous  Hummingbird (Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Doña Ana, Grant)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (Santa Fe)
Three-toed Woodpecker (Sandoval)
Gray  Flycatcher (Grant)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Catron)
Brown-crested Flycatcher (Hidalgo)
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher (Grant)
Thick-billed Kingbird (Hidalgo)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Chaves)
Horned  Lark (Otero)
Gray  Vireo (Eddy, Hidalgo)
BLACK-CAPPED VIREO (Eddy)
Cave  and Barn Swallows (EddY)
Clark’s Nutcracker (Catron, Santa Fe)
Bushtit (Grant)
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Eddy)
Phainopepla (Santa Fe)
Lucy’s  Warbler (Doña Ana))
Cassin’s Sparrow (Santa Fe)
Botteri’s Sparrow (Hidalgo)
Rufous-winged Sparrow (Cochise, AZ)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (Sandoval)
Varied  Bunting (Eddy, Hidalgo)
Yellow-headed Blackbird (Otero)
Bronzed Cowbird (Sierra, Eddy, Bernalillo, Grant)
Pine  Grosbeak (Santa Fe)
Red  Crossbill (Grant)
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In  Sandoval County:
BF reported several BLACK SWIFTS high  over the canyon at
the  Jemez Falls on July 2.
CR and SF on July 3 had a SNIPE in the  Valles Caldera of
the  Jemez Mountains and a LINCOLN’S SPARROW.  On the trail
down  from the Juniper Campground at the Bandelier NM into
Frijoles Canyon he was surprised to find a THREE-TOED
WOODPECKER in pinyon-juniper.
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In Los  Alamos County:
CR had a RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD at the SF  feeder in Los Alamos
on  July 3.
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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 PIGEONS.  On the Chamisa  Trail on June 24 there
was a  female WILLIAMSON’S SAPSUCKER.  On  June 25 he reported
PINE  GROSBEAKS at the top of the Santa Fe Ski Basin chair lift
With  several CLARK’S NUTCRACKERS.
JB on June 21 on CR 84 (parallel to NM  502) had a
PHAINOPEPLA fly over the marsh.  LH and GS had another on July
2 on  Airport Road (Paseo Real) in Santa Fe along the Santa Fe
River  about a half mile south of the Sewage Treatment Plant.
JB on June 17 had his first RUFOUS  HUMMINGBIRD in Santa Fe.
PN on horseback off of Horton Road near  Hill Ranch Road in
Edgewood heard a singing CASSIN’S SPARROW.
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In  Guadalupe County;
CR and SD on June 25 at Santa Rosa Lake  saw a WILLET,
three  BLACK TERNS, and two WHITE PELICANS.
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In  Bernalillo County:
RY had a PEREGRINE on San Antonio between  Louisiana and
Wyoming in Albuquerque on July 6 and 8.
JJ on July 4 had a BLACK HAWK fly out of  a cottonwood on
the  east side of the Rio Grande south of the Tijeras Arroyo
at the  west end of Valley High Street from Second Street.
He  also saw a PEREGRINE.
JK on June 30 had a PEREGRINE on Unser  Blvd. near the new
hospital in Albuquerque.
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 at the Isleta Marsh north of Los Lunas  on June 29 had
BLACK-NECKED STILTS.
In  Torrance County:
ES has had two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over his  home at 61
Sunglow Loop east of Hwy. 217 for the past week.
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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.  JL on
July 2  had 23 WHITE PELICANS at the boardwalk pond, but no
Moorhen.
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,
seven  RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and four BARN OWLS.
CR and SD at the rest stop near Mesa saw  two SCISSOR-
TAILED  FLYCATCHERS.
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In  Sierra County:
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:
RS had a female COMMON MERGANSWER with  five chicks on the
Gila  River on June 23 with two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS and an
immature BLACK HAWK molting to adult plumage on June  24.
JDM had a RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD at Roberts  Lake on June 25
and FL  on June 27.  Up to two males  appeared at the KB Silver
City  home on June 29.
JDM had a SULPHUR-BELLIED FLYCATCHER at  Roberts Lake on
June  28.
EL had a GREEN HERON on the Tyrone Sewage  ponds on June 28.
EL has had a female BRONZED COWBIRD in  his Silver City yard.
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, with many GRAY FLYCATCHERS,
BUSHTITS, and RED CROSSBILLS.
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In  Hidalgo County:
CW on June 21 had a LUCIFER HUMMINGBIRD in upper Cottonwood
Canyon.  He put up two  feeders .6 mile 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.  JP and WW put
feeders where a culvert goes under the road on July 1 and had
a male  LUCIFER.  On July 4 with JO they saw  a female COSTA’S,
the  Lucifer, and a female BROAD-BILLED.  JO also had a male
COSTA’S.
In Clanton Canyon on July JP and WW heard  a singing MONTEZUMA
QUAIL.  Another was heard in Whitmire  Canyon.  They also saw a
coatimundi on the way out of Clanton.
At Rodeo on July 3 JP and WW had a  calling COMMON GROUND-DOVE
at the  ranch just northeast of town.
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.  These were seen by
JO and  WW on July 3 with three GRAY HAWKS in the AZ part.  At
the  ranch area in NM there was up to three VIOLET-CROWNED
HUMMERS, three BROAD-BILLED, eight VARIED BUNTINGS, and one
singing GRAY VIREO.
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.  JP and WW on July 2 had  three BOTTERI’S at
mile  marker 15 and one near mile 31.  At  Dunagan’s at mile 15
they  had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK and a BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER.
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.  JZ  reports they had their
first  RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD on July 3.
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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.  CR  and SD did not find
the  Black-capped Vireo on June 26.  In  West Slaughter Canyon
there  was a  BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER and  SW found up to ten
pairs  of GRAY VIREOS.
At Rattlesnake Springs BW on June 17  recorded two BRONZED
COWBIRDS and the GRAY HAWK.  CR and SD on June 26 had quite a
few  YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS.
At Brantley Lake north of Carlsbad BS on  June 13 saw
three  LEAST TERNS and two SNOWY PLOVERS.  CR and SD on June 26
found  one Least Tern, five plovers, and two FRANKLIN’S GULLS.
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;  KB, Karen Berkenbach;
JDM,  Joan Day-Martin;  SD, Steve  Drilling;  DE, David Eulian;
SF,  Steve Fettig;  BF, Bernard Foy;  DG, David Griffin;
MH,  Michael Hilchey;  LH, Lonnie Howard;  JJ, Jim Joseph;
JK,  John Knapp;  FL, Fran Land;  EL, Gene Lewis;
JL,  Judy Liddell;  AM, Amy  Morrison;  PN, Paul Noble;
JO,  Jerry Oldenettel;  JP, John  Parmeter;  NP, Nick Pederson;
CR,  Chris Rustay;  JSa, Jeff  Sanchez;  BS, Bill Scott;
MS,  Marcy Scott;  RS, Roland Shook;  ES, Ed Stevens;
GS,  Gail Szpatura;  RV, Raymond  VanBuskirk;  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.  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@... (mailto:ff1964@...) .
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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  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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