Sunday, May 11th – 7:30 am

Leader: Ken Bales, kbales2003@gmail.com

The Nambé Recreation Area has a wide variety of habitats including a large lake for waterfowl and wading birds. After birding the lake, we will go to the campground area where mature riparian forests are good for many passerine species.

Saturday, May 17, 2025 — 8:15 am
Leaders: Albert Shultz & Rick Rockman

An easy walk of less than a mile beside meadows, streamside trees, thickets and a small cattail pond should provide a good variety of local breeding songbirds.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Leader: René Laubach

We will walk 3.8 miles round-trip to Los Alamos Canyon Reservoir and back. The service-road grade is fairly easy and permits good group viewing of many types of birds in this scenic mountain canyon.

Shane Woolbright, trip leader
Eleven Sangre de Cristo Audubon members made the trip out to Melrose Woods migrant trap east of Fort Sumner on May 3-4.   Unfortunately, a strong southerly wind took most migrants northward.   We did find a few fallouts such as Olive-Sided Flycatcher, Indigo Bunting and Parula Warbler along with a Brown Thrasher. 

May 3rd and 4th – evening and morning
Leader: Shane Woolbright

Melrose Woods is a rather famous migrant trap and has the distinction of having one of the largest lists of warblers of any site in North America. Many eastern species are found here in the first two weeks of May. 

Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 7:30 am
Leader: Chris Chappell, Take Flight Birding & Nature Adventures

We will walk through the bosque in Peña Blanca, and also bird at the Cochiti Dam spillway and on the west side of Cochiti Lake. Winter bird diversity here is high, with over 50 species for the day expected.

On September 14, 2024, a dozen chapter members hiked and birded the South Pasture Trail in Pecos National Historical Park. Led by chapter board members Albert Shultz and Rick Rockman, the group enjoyed a beautiful day with mild weather for this four-mile loop hike.

Saturday, Sept. 14 – 8:15 am
 Leader: Albert Shultz – shultzaw@gmail.com, or 505-699-1521

This walk along the easy, four-mile South Pasture Trail passes through grassland, piñon-juniper woodland, and a cottonwood-willow riparian area along the Pecos River.

Sunday, September 29 – 7 am departure
Leader: Rick Rockman – 505-660-9972 or rockmanrjr@gmail.com

This full-day field trip is to a high-altitude lookout in the Manzano Mountains, and is appropriate for all levels of birders, especially those interested in raptors. A moderate-to-steep hike of approximately ½ mile leads to the rocky HawkWatch site, a raptor observing and banding station, on Capilla Peak, elevation 9,379 feet.

Saturday, May 4th – 8:00 am
Leader: Rene Laubach, renelaubach@gmail.com

We will walk 3.8 miles from scenic upper Los Alamos Canyon to Los Alamos Canyon Reservoir and back. The service-road grade is fairly easy and permits good group viewing.