Fall Birding at Coronado State Park

“Horned Larks,” Barb announced. “Look over there amongst the tufts of dry grass. You’ll have to look carefully as they really blend in.”
We all focused our binoculars until one of larks moved and we could see the yellow throat. They resembled the walking pattern of plovers – take a few [...]

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Birds and Fall Color at 4th of July Camptround

“I heard a Northern Pygmy Owl about half a mile back,” Boyd said when we arrived at the Fourth of July Campground in the Manzano Mountains. “We were driving with our windows open.”
The caravan of 17 Thursday Birders had bumped along slowly for over seven miles on the dirt road west of [...]

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Early Fall at the Corrales Bosque

“Look, there is a raptor perched on a branch over the irrigation ditch,” someone beckoned. It was quite a ways down the channel and sat with its back to us. We began to call out its salient characteristics: long tail, white tail tip.
Rebecca brought her scope over, and Gale, the trip [...]

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