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1999-06-01: NM: Socorro: 507 Fitch

@day: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Dove, Inca 1 @Socorro: 507 Fitch

1999-06-03: NM: Socorro: New Mexico Tech

@TBay: Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
@Terry: Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
@day: Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Hawk, Red-tailed 1a @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Killdeer 1 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
Dove, Mourning 2 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
Raven, Common 1 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
Vocalizations: Low croak.
Verdin 
2 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
On the flood control dike west of Faculty Hill, just south of the gas line.
Vocalizations: A soft, single 'teew' note.
1 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
Vocalizations: Call from closer sounds like 'tseep'.
Grackle, Common @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay

1999-06-09: NM: Socorro: New Mexico Tech

Notable:  Prothonotary Warbler
@HT: Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Hilltop
Grove of trees just west of the campus greenhouse complex, further west and across the road from the golf course pro shop.
@day: Socorro: New Mexico Tech
A cottontail sat calmly grooming twelve feet from where I sat at Hilltop.
Killdeer @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Southwest corner of Faculty Hill.
Phoebe, Say's @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Between units E and F of Family Student Housing.
Warbler, Prothonotary 1 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Turtle Bay, in a Russian Olive near Toki's Bridge.
Description: Very tame, observed for about four minutes at 7–10' range. Bill long, somewhat heavy, solid black. Upperparts: head greenish-yellow above, back yellow-green, wings gray, no wingbars. Only one scraggly rectrix. Underparts: face and ventral head and chest to belly bright yellow; belly and vent white.
Cowbird, Brown-headed @Socorro: New Mexico Tech

1999-06-11: NM: Socorro: New Mexico Tech

Notable:  American Redstart
@day: Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Hawk, Sharp-shinned @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Behavior: Carrying prey and being mobbed over Workman.
Redstart, American 1♀ @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Turtle Bay.
Description: Flank patches orange. Yellow wing patches. T-tail with basal side patches yellow.
Vocalizations: Call a loud, piercing 'tsyip'. Song: 'weeky^{2-3}[wik]'.

1999-06-13: NM: Socorro: New Mexico Tech

@day: Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Phoebe, Say's @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
NRAO Guest House.

1999-06-14: NM: Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Faculty Hill

@day: Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Faculty Hill
Verdin 1 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Faculty Hill
Dike on west side, near the gas line.
Sparrow, Black-throated 2 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Faculty Hill

1999-06-17: NM: Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake

@day: Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
Killdeer 2 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake

1999-06-20: NM: Socorro

@day: Socorro
Dove, White-winged @Socorro
Behavior: Bending forward with tail up, shrugging wings into a folded vertical position.
Vocalizations: 'whoo', pause, 'woo-hoo'

1999-06-23: NM: Socorro: Goad Road

@day: Socorro: Goad Road
Phainopepla 1 @Socorro: Goad Road

1999-06-25: NM: Socorro: 507 Fitch St.

@day: Socorro: 507 Fitch St.
Quail, Gambel's @Socorro: 507 Fitch St.
Vocalizations: "Watch-quail" call.
New to the yard list, I think.

1999-06-28: NM: Socorro: New Mexico Tech

@TBay: Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
@day: Socorro: New Mexico Tech
domestic goose sp. 4 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
domestic duck sp. 7 @Socorro: New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Phoebe, Say's @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Family Student Housing, unit D.

1999-06-30: NM: Socorro: 507 Fitch St.

@day: Socorro: 507 Fitch St.
Thrasher, Curve-billed 3 @Socorro: 507 Fitch St.
Breeding: One adult feeding one juvenile while another was calling from elsewhere.
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