Sage Sparrows and Crissal Thrasher at Rinconada Canyon

Dry grasses flanked the trail into Rinconada Canyon as 10 Central New Mexico Audubon Thursday Birders started onto the trail in the Petroglyph’s National Monument. The Rinconada Canyon Trail, on the south end of the national monument, traverses sand dunes, and winds through an eroded canyon at the edge of a basaltic lava flow [...]

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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Cedro Peak Campground

“Look,” someone called, “there’s a Juniper Titmouse in that tree over there.” It posed momentarily with its jaunty crested head cocked to one side. An American Robin perched on a wire over the arroyo and seemed to be talking to us. In addition to the titmouse and robin, we also spotted Western Bluebirds,White-breasted Nuthatch, [...]

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Warm and Golden at Bosque del Apache

We stopped to peer at a flock of wild turkeys wandering through one of the farms along the Farm-to-Market Road between Socorro and San Antonio. Most of the 25 Central New Mexico Audubon Thursday Birders had drive straight to the Visitors Center at the Bosque del Apache; however, my car and one other decided [...]

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