Spring Meeting Schedule
(at Unitarian Universalist Church)
Wed. February 11 — Bob Foehring on a Big Year
Wed. March 11 —  Cathy Wise on Pinyon Jays
Wed. April 8 — Evalyn Bemis, Birding the Texas Coast

Wed. Nov. 12: no meeting this month

Currently there are no field trips scheduled through February 2026. Please check this space for future updates.

Join a Christmas Bird count for winter birding fun!

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.

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.

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.

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.