Rough-legged Hawks! 12-08-13

Far off Rough-legged Hawk in FROZEN southern Santa Fe County, NM. I was birding with Wyatt Eglehoff and we had two of these stunning raptors.

One adult male common goldeneye, two imm. males, and one female at Las Campanas Golf Course in Santa Fe County, NM

Adult female lesser scaup at Las Campanas Golf Course in Santa Fe County, NM

American robin at Capital Building in Santa Fe, NM

Immature cedar waxwing Capital Building in Santa Fe, NM

Santa Fe County, NM
Dec 8, 2013 7:45 AM - 3:45 PM
65.0 miles
Comments: birding with wyatt eglehoff
35 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)  1
Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca)  1
Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)  1     Las Campanas
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)  13     Las Campanas
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)  17     Las Campanas
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)  1     Las Campanas
Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis)  1 One sitting right at the Santa Fe/Torrence County Line on CR23
Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus)  2     One was near the Otto Migrant Trap the other flew over SR 14 5 miles south of I-25
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) (Columba livia (Domestic type))  17
Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)  3
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)  2
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)  2
Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)  1     Marty Sanchez Golf Course
Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus)  130     Marty Sanchez Golf Course
Western Scrub-Jay (Woodhouse's) (Aphelocoma californica [woodhouseii Group])  7
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  45     Mostly near the Round House in SF
Common Raven (Corvus corax)  10
raven sp. (Corvus sp. (raven sp.))  65
Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)  1250     Large flocks of larks encountered on every farm road. Snowy fields has moved them in along the roads. There were flocks of 15 to 300 encountered numerous times on every road. Also had several flocks along Hwy 14 and in the Las Campanas area.
Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli)  1
Juniper Titmouse (Baeolophus ridgwayi)  1
Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana)  1
Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi)  3
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)  30
Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre)  1
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)  45     Round House in SF
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) (Setophaga coronata auduboni)  4
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)  4
White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)  35     mostly at Marty Sanchez Golf Course
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)  6
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)  1 Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta)  8
Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)  35
House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)  20
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)  1
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)  5