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2005-05-01: NM: Socorro: 507 Fitch

@home: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Quail, Gambel's 2 @Socorro: 507 Fitch
In my orchard.
Thrasher, Curve-billed 1 @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Vocalizations: Singing.

2005-05-03: NM: Socorro: 507 Fitch

Notable:  Rose-breasted Grosbeak
@home: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Film Frames 1-6 of a new roll of KL started today at 1115; exposures 1/1000 and 1/500.
Grosbeak, Rose-breasted 1♂ @Socorro: 507 Fitch
On my sunflower feeder.

2005-05-04: NM: Socorro

@NMT: New Mexico Tech
@Soc: Socorro
@TBay: New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
@Terry: New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
@home: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Route Quick survey of Turtle Bay area around midday.
Film Frame 7 of KL was the Ladder-backed Woodpecker. Frames 8-9, two species of chelonians on the bank at TBay. Frames 10-11, Cooper's Hawk.
Wigeon, American 
6 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
1 @New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
Hawk, Cooper's 1 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Description: Eye well forward in head, large size.
Behavior: Strafing the picnic area.
Coot, American 
1 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
3 @New Mexico Tech: Terry Lake
Dove, Inca 1 @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Vocalizations: 'coo-cook'
Woodpecker, Ladder-backed 1♀ @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Vireo, Solitary 1 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Description: Greenish edges to folded wing. Very light gray back.
Mockingbird, Northern 1 @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Vocalizations: Singing.
Thrasher, Curve-billed 1 @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Vocalizations: Singing.
Warbler, Audubon's 3 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Warbler, Myrtle 1 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Grosbeak, Black-headed 1♀ @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Grackle, Common 
1♂ @Socorro
1♀ @Socorro
Oriole, Bullock's @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Siskin, Pine 18 @Socorro: 507 Fitch

2005-05-07: NM: Socorro: 507 Fitch

@home: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Thrasher, Curve-billed @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Description: Normal bill, not "Megabill".
Vocalizations: Singing.

2005-05-08: NM: New Mexico Tech

@NMT: New Mexico Tech
Grosbeak, Black-headed @New Mexico Tech
Office window list species #23.

2005-05-09: NM: Socorro: 507 Fitch

@home: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Grosbeak, Black-headed 3♂ @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Siskin, Pine # @Socorro: 507 Fitch

2005-05-11: NM: New Mexico Tech

@NMT: New Mexico Tech
Hummingbird, Black-chinned 1 @New Mexico Tech
Office window list species #24.

2005-05-14: NM: Socorro Co.

Notable:  Ringed Turtle-Dove; "Western" Flycatcher; Crissal Thrasher; Yellow-breasted Chat
@IMBD: Socorro Co.
@Riv: Socorro Riverine Park #4
@SS: Socorro: Sedillo Spring
@TBay: New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
@home: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Route 0530: Start driving, trip odo at 0.0. 0550: Arrive @SS, trip odo at 3.3, walk 0.8 miles. 0724: Driving. 0838: Arrive @TB, trip odo at 8.9, walk 0.5 miles. 1024: Driving, some ag areas near Chaparral Road, very brief drive-through of @RP. 1108: End, trip odo at 19.2.
Film
Continuing existing KL roll at frame 13. Yellow-breasted Chat sequence through fr.24. Pewee series through fr.27, 1/250 (++), 1/1000 (0), 1/2000 (-), 1/500. Fr.28, chelonian at Turtle Bay. Fr.29-34, Western Flycatcher.
At 1005, remove KL roll started 2005-0503-1110, new roll of VC-400. Green Heron through fr.12; last two are 1/500 which is where the palm of my hand meters.
Effort: 2.30 hours and 1.3 miles by foot, 3.33 hours and 19.2 miles by car, 5.63 hours and 20.5 miles total.
All these records pertain to the International Migratory Bird Day spring count. Our party included Eric Greisen for all locations up to but not including @TB.
Wigeon, American 5 @Socorro Co.
Quail, Scaled 2 @Socorro Co.
Visiting a feeder on Evergreen Drive.
Quail, Gambel's 11 @Socorro Co.
Heron, Green 1 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
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Vulture, Turkey 7 @Socorro Co.
Harrier, Northern 1 @Socorro Co.
Flight, near Luis Lopez, seen from I-25.
Hawk, Cooper's 1 @Socorro Co.
Hawk, Red-tailed 1 @Socorro Co.
Kestrel, American 1 @Socorro Co.
Coot, American 1 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Pigeon, Rock 5 @Socorro Co.
Turtle-Dove, Ringed 1 [uncountable] @Socorro Co.
Eric Greisen's back yard.
Description: Slightly smaller than White-winged Dove in direct comparison. Plumage very light, almost white. Black nuchal crescent.
Collared-Dove, Eurasian 2 @Socorro Co.
Dove, White-winged 16 @Socorro Co.
Dove, Mourning 18 @Socorro Co.
Roadrunner, Greater 2 @Socorro Co.
Hummingbird, Black-chinned 1 @Socorro Co.
Woodpecker, Ladder-backed 2 @Socorro Co.
Wood-Pewee, Western 1 @Socorro Co.
Flycatcher, "Western" 1 @New Mexico Tech: Turtle Bay
Description: Empidonax type, quite greenish head and upper back, extensive almond-shaped light eyepatch. Photos.
Vocalizations: Silent.
Phoebe, Black 1 @Socorro Co.
Phoebe, Say's 2 @Socorro Co.
Flycatcher, Ash-throated 3 @Socorro Co.
Kingbird, Western 27 @Socorro Co.
Vireo, Warbling 1 @Socorro Co.
raven sp. 10 @Socorro Co.
Vocalizations: Silent. All but one were at the pig farm and probably Chihuahuan.
Raven, Chihuahuan 1 @Socorro Co.
The pig farm on Chaparral Loop, where this species is just about a stakeout.
Vocalizations: 'rack-rack'
Raven, Common 2 @Socorro Co.
Tech Golf Course, where they have bred for several years running.
Vocalizations: Low croaking.
Swallow, Barn 37 @Socorro Co.
Robin, American 9 @Socorro Co.
Mockingbird, Northern 10 @Socorro Co.
Thrasher, Curve-billed 3 @Socorro Co.
Thrasher, Crissal 1 @Socorro Co.
Just west of the end of Evergreen Drive, returning from @SS around 0745, this bird actually perched on top of several bushes in succession, practically cavorting for us.
Description: Large size, long and greatly decurved bill for a thrasher, vent plumage brick-red.
Starling, European 8 @Socorro Co.
Phainopepla 3 @Socorro Co.
Warbler, Yellow 3 @Socorro: Sedillo Spring
Warbler, Audubon's 1 @Socorro Co.
Warbler, MacGillivray's 2 @Socorro: Sedillo Spring
My first of the year.
Warbler, Wilson's 1 @Socorro: Sedillo Spring
My first of the year.
Chat, Yellow-breasted 1 @Socorro Co.
Perched in a tree immediately south of Eric Greisen's house on Stallion Circle. Photos. Probably my first record for Socorro proper.
Towhee, Spotted 1 @Socorro Riverine Park #4
Sparrow, Chipping 2 @Socorro Co.
Sparrow, Brewer's 2 @Socorro: Sedillo Spring
Sparrow, Black-throated 4 @Socorro: Sedillo Spring
Grosbeak, Black-headed 9 @Socorro Co.
Grosbeak, Blue 1 @Socorro Co.
Blackbird, Red-winged 9 @Socorro Co.
Meadowlark, Western 2 @Socorro Co.
Vocalizations: Singing.
Grackle, Common 1 @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Grackle, Great-tailed 6 @Socorro Co.
Cowbird, Brown-headed 1 @Socorro Co.
Oriole, Bullock's 3 @Socorro Co.
Finch, House 19 @Socorro Co.
Siskin, Pine 44 @Socorro Co.
Goldfinch, Lesser 12 @Socorro Co.
Sparrow, House 82 @Socorro Co.

2005-05-14: NM: Bosque del Apache

@BdA: Bosque del Apache
These records are outside my IMBD effort. From about 1515 to 1630, drove the center road to the far end, came back and did the seasonal road.
Goose, Bar-headed  [uncountable] @Bosque del Apache
On the Marsh Loop a short distance south of the center road.
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Exotic.
Gadwall @Bosque del Apache
Teal, Cinnamon @Bosque del Apache
Cormorant, Neotropic @Bosque del Apache
Egret, Snowy @Bosque del Apache
Coot, American @Bosque del Apache
Stilt, Black-necked @Bosque del Apache
Flycatcher, Olive-sided 1 @Bosque del Apache

2005-05-18: NM: Socorro

@Soc: Socorro
Phainopepla 1♂ @Socorro
On Gurdon Place near Neel St.

2005-05-25: NM: Socorro: New Mexico Tech

@NMT: Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Swallow, Barn @Socorro: New Mexico Tech
Species #25 on my office window list.

2005-05-26: NM: Socorro: 507 Fitch

@home: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Dove, Inca 1 @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Thrasher, Curve-billed @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Vocalizations: Singing.

2005-05-27: NM: Socorro

@Soc: Socorro
@home: Socorro: 507 Fitch
Hawk, Cooper's 1 @Socorro
From my office window, species #26.
Dove, Inca 2 @Socorro: 507 Fitch
Owl, Barn 1 @Socorro
While train-watching in the late evening, I turned from Hope Farms Road onto the stub of the road that used to cross the railroad and connect with Markland Road, and this owl flushed from near the barricade.

2005-05-28: NM: Socorro: Riverine Park

@Riv: Socorro: Riverine Park
Route 1115, arrive Socorro Riverine Park at the end of Otero Street. 1145, arrive and park at #4 to survey the huge new change in the river's route. 1215, gun enthusiasts (NM lic. 042-KBF, white pickup, several hundred rounds of semiautomatic fire at floating targets) cut short my hike north as I ran back to see what all the noise was; then hiked south from the parking area. 1245, leave.
Film Frames 14-15 of current roll fired accidentally. Fr. 18-20 of Summer Tanager, two at 1/500 (indicated exposure), last at 1/1000.
Two songs unidentified, but I have suspects and may later nail them down with recordings. The first goes "yed-roe-zit-zit-zit-eee-rrrrrr", the last note a coarse trill, the "eee" part a higher and faster trill. For this one, check the usual warblers like Lucy's, etc.
Another was in an irrigation channel and went "(Don-Ameche)^3-Donna"; Common Yellowthroat?
Hawk, Swainson's 1 @Socorro: Riverine Park
Roadrunner, Greater # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Hummingbird, Black-chinned # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Empidonax sp. 1 @Socorro: Riverine Park
Flycatcher, Ash-throated 5+ @Socorro: Riverine Park
Swallow, Cliff # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Bunches around the bridge where Otero ends near the river dike.
Warbler, Yellow # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Vocalizations: Singing.
Towhee, Spotted # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Tanager, Summer # @Socorro: Riverine Park
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Grosbeak, Black-headed # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Grosbeak, Blue 
2♀ @Socorro: Riverine Park
Description: From the beautiful plain cinnamon hue of the head, and the stout bill.
1♂ @Socorro: Riverine Park
Grackle, Great-tailed # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Cowbird, Brown-headed # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Oriole, Bullock's # @Socorro: Riverine Park
Goldfinch, Lesser # @Socorro: Riverine Park
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