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Evening Programs, Spring 2026

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

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Lesser Prairie Chicken Lek Viewing

Thursday, April 9, 2026
Sangre De Cristo Audubon has arranged with The Nature Conservancy to have a blind for viewing the dance of the Lesser Prairie Chicken on the morning of April 9th.   Only a small number will be allowed for this showing.   

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Pecos Monastery

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.

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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.

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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. 

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