Irene

Not just cormorant, but Olivaceous cormorant. At least that's what they
were last year at this time when I was there. I drove by them a half a
dozen times until I overheard someone talking about them and I had to go
back and reID them.

Regards

Roger Craik
Maple Ridge BC

Irene Wanner wrote:
>
> I have been lazy about posting birds sighted 3/29 in New Mexico. Some
> were:
> Ruddy duck
> Coots
> Mallards and gadwalls and pintails
> Bufflehead
> Cormorant
> Kestrels
> American avocet
> Scaup
> pied-billed grebe
> stilt
> egret
> Great Blue Heron
> Cliff and VG Swallows
> snow geese (trumpeter swans?)
> cinnamon and blue-winged teal
> road runner
> Western meadowlark
> pheasant
> grackle
> harrier
> flycatcher
> kildeer
>
> Coyote (2 plump)
> Prairie dogs
>
> We had something that took off before we could really see it. Its bill
> turned down like an ibis and it seemed to be mallard-head greenish. Any
> ideas?