The Birds are Singing in the Sandia Foothills

A curve-billed Thrasher flew in and landed on a wall next to the parking area at the end of Copper as fifteen Thursday Birders gathered to begin our walk in the open space. It was the first of many we would see during our two-hour walk.
The morning was cold and overcast, with a [...]

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Late Winter at Albuquerque’s Los Poblanos Open Space

“There’s a large white bird flying on the horizon,” Bev exclaimed. “Perhaps it is an egret.”
We focused our binoculars on the flapping white birds. “I don’t think it is an egret,” someone said. “It must be a gull.”
Then it turned and flew closer — and it was [...]

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