Past Field Trips

Los Luceros Historic Site

Sunday, October 5, 2025 — 8:00 – 11:00 am
Leader: Jerry Friedman

This is an easy walk at a restored historic ranch featuring gardens, pastures, orchards and riparian woodland trails that make it an Important Bird Area (IBA), north of Española on the Rio Grande. Species should include migrants, especially songbirds and probably waterfowl, as well as residents such as Lewis’s Woodpeckers.

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Pecos Monastery — Field Trip Report

Sixteen chapter members enjoyed a beautiful spring morning on Saturday, May 17, 2025, for a leisurely birding walk around the Monastery grounds.  Bird activity was fairly good, and we were rewarded with views and songs of many summer birds and a few lingering migrants….

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Melrose Woods — Field Trip Report

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. 

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Pecos National Historical Park – Field Trip Report

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.

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