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

10,000 Birds

Lesser Goldfinches, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Vesper Sparrows, Lincoln Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrows , and lots and lots of Mourning Doves have taken up residence in what used to be open water. Our next stop was another mutually agreed upon stop, Albuquerque New Mexico.

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Little Big Year – Week 34: We visit Colorado and Texas

10,000 Birds

In the past, seeing some of these Ring-necked Ducks would have been rather scarce, so here is a shot of the small group that were on the larger pond. The largest group of ducks turned out to be the Ruddy Ducks, with well over 200 in three or four large rafts. The numbers are as follows: Little Big Year Species – 892.

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