Christmas Bird Count – Sandia Mountains, New Mexico

We stood in the parking lot stomping our feet and rubbing our hands to keep warm in the 16 degree early morning cold while we checked in, paid our $5 fee and received our team assignments. And then the teams scattered to the 14 count areas in the Sandia Mountains to begin our eight-hour [...]

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Winter Birds at the Rio Grande Nature Center

“There’s the white goose that was reported on the Rare Bird Alert,” I heard someone say. I had just arrived at the blind by the parking lot pond at the Rio Grande Nature Center to join the Thursday Birders. The person who had posted the sighting had speculated that this bird was a Canada [...]

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