New Mexico Locations

Posts in the Bird Destinations series about locations in New Mexico.

2024

Memories of Apache Creek, NM

I’ve been to the Apache Creek region in New Mexico two times. The following notes are from those occasions. My first visit to Apache Creek was in late May-2020, while…

Memories of Glenwood Catwalk and the Glenwood Fishery

My first visit to the Catwalk at Glenwood New Mexico was in August 2003. I was new to bird photography, and I remember meeting my first Summer Tanager there. It…

Memories of Sandia Crest

Just outside of Albuquerque, the Sandia Mountains loom large in the northeast. For years I’ve been wanting to pay a winter visit to the crest of these peaks and meet…

2020

Memories of Bitter Lake NWR, New Mexico

After four days on the road from Brownsville, I followed the Pecos River upstream from Texas and crossed into New Mexico on Sunday, May 10th of 2020, and found a…

2019

Memories of the Rio Grande Nature Center

Albuquerque is the largest population center in New Mexico. This town rests in the Rio Grande River Valley, a stream whose headwaters are in the highlands of central Colorado on…

2015

Memories of Bosque del Apache

Bosque del Apache is a birding Mecca in the middle Rio Grande Valley. It is near the geographic center of New Mexico. A winter pilgrimage will reward the traveler with…