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.
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Upper Los Alamos Canyon
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.
Nambé Lake and Falls area
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.
Melrose Woods Migrant Trap
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.
Peña Blanca Bosque and Cochiti Lake
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.
Pecos National Historical Park
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.
HawkWatch at Capilla Peak, Manzano Mountains
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.
Upper Los Alamos Canyon
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.
A Short History of Bird Photography
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