Birding Embudito Canyon Between the Rain Showers

It was raining when I left the house, just a couple of miles from the trailhead. I didn’t think anyone would show up, but since I was the trip leader, I figured I had better at least make an appearance.
Larry was in his car when I arrived at the parking lot. As [...]

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Late Summer at Corrales Bosque

“There is a Black Phoebe sitting on the top of a twig at the edge of the river,” Dave said as he peered through his scope. “And there is a Snowy Egret on the sand bar a little further down river.”
Seventeen Central New Mexico Audubon Thursday Birders were standing single file on [...]

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Birds Along the South Texas Coast

It was pretty barren as we sailed down US 77 towards the Lower Rio Grande Valley. I was driving.
“There has to be something we can stop and check out on our way,” Barb commented.
“The drive south on US 77 offers some of the best roadside birding in south Texas,” Sue read [...]

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Raptors of Torrance County

“Red-tailed Hawk,” Bob alerted us from trip leader Bonnie Long’s car. Seven cars of Thursday Birders followed the lead vehicle along the frontage road between Edgewood and Moriarty. It was the first of seven Red-tailed Hawks we would see during our day-long trek.
It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind [...]

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Visit from a Roadrunner

I walked out of my garage to the driveway just as a Greater Roadrunner was passing by. He glanced at me and kept going. When he got to my gate he paused a moment, hopped right up to the opening in the top of the gate, and then popped on through. [...]

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