{"id":4421,"date":"2012-01-16T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2012-01-16T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:25:26","slug":"los-lunas-belen-bernardo-birding-daytrip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/los-lunas-belen-bernardo-birding-daytrip\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Lunas \u2013 Belen \u2013 Bernardo Birding Daytrip"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a day trip to various birding hotspots south of Albuquerque, but not as far south as Mecca (Bosque del Apache). My guide was Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico<\/a>, by Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey, plus GPS and some time spent with Google Earth beforehand. One trip is not enough to evaluate these spots \u2013 their inclusion in the book may be enough of a rating. Certainly, I will return to Bernardo<\/a>, which is so much closer than Mecca but *almost* as beautiful and bird-full (no place is as beautiful as Bosque del Apache). I wish Bosque del Apache would mimic the blinds and overlooks at Bernardo, which has two fantastic trails through high bushes around a pond.<\/p>\n

Highlights included quite a few kestrels, a northern harrier at Whitfield Wildlife Conservation Area<\/a>, lots of sandhill cranes and snow geese, a song sparrow, and several rufous-sided towhees, all at Bernardo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Los Lunas – Belen – Bernardo, New Mexico<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note: Photos contain GPS data and can be mapped online.<\/p>\n

I had not luck locating Belen Waterfowl Management Area off Jarales Road (a lovely drive). The official map of the area<\/a> is dreadfully vague. Nor did I see any indication along the road of Casa Colorada WMA.<\/p>\n

See Judy Liddell\u2019s blog for much more information: It\u2019s a bird thing\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n

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Los Lunas – Belen – Bernardo Birding Daytrip<\/a> is a post from Ah, Wilderness!<\/a> . Let me know what you think<\/a>. peace, mjh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a day trip to various birding hotspots south of Albuquerque, but not as far south as Mecca (Bosque del Apache). My guide was Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico, by Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey, plus GPS and some time spent with Google Earth beforehand. One trip is not enough to evaluate […]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Los Lunas – Belen – Bernardo Birding Daytrip<\/a> is a post from Ah, Wilderness!<\/a> . Let me know what you think<\/a>. peace, mjh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,7],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wild","category-photos","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}