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

10,000 Birds

After our brief trip thru the great state of Texas, we were headed back into New Mexico, a state I was quite excited to explore. I counted about 600 of them, along with a few Red-wing Blackbirds and about 50-75 Yellow-headed Blackbirds. Our first stop was a mutually agreed upon stop, in Tucumcari.