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Little Big Year – Week 35: Route 66, Tucumcari and The Albuquerque area

10,000 Birds

American Kestrels, Cooper Hawks , and Northern Harriers also found the hunting here to their liking. Our next stop was another mutually agreed upon stop, Albuquerque New Mexico. There was a large number of Wood Ducks, using the deep foliage of the irrigation canal as cover, making them quite difficult to photograph.