According to the field trip information, “The trail is steep and climbs 2,000 feet in the two-mile walk. Small pebbles on the trail make the descent slippery.” The Thursday Birders would be hiking up to the spring Hawkwatch International lookout at the south end of the Sandia Mountains.
With that warning, only four [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Raptors Migrate Over the Sandias
Posted in Birds, New Mexico on March 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Birding Four Hills Open Space
Posted in Birds, New Mexico on March 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A Northern Flicker flew over the trail and landed on top of a conifer, as the group of 16 Thursday Birders headed into the Four Hills Open Space in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains. “It looks like it is posing for us,” Jean exclaimed.
It was the kind of morning that made us [...]
