New Mexico - Arizona - Colorado Trip ~ March 13, 2006

On our last day there, an Albuquerque native mentioned that we got to see all four seasons of the year in just one week. We had 80-degree weather in the beginning of the week, hail and snow with temperatures down in the teens in the middle of the week, followed by 'white-outs' caused by 50-mph wind-driven snow near the end. Needless to say, it was a memorable week weatherwise.

For those of you interested in seeing many more photos from New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado, you can go to my New Mexico Photos Album, Arizona Photos Album, and Colorado Photos Album.

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New Mexico - Arizona - Colorado Trip List ---- March 6th to 13th, 2006

1) Pied-billed Grebe
2) American White Pelican
3) Double-crested Cormorant
4) Great Blue Heron
5) Great Egret
6) Snowy Egret
7) Green Heron
8) Black-crowned Night-Heron
9) Snow Goose
10) Canada Goose
11) Wood Duck
12) Green-winged Teal
13) Mallard
14) Northern Pintail
15) Blue-winged Teal
16) Cinnamon Teal
17) Northern Shoveler
18) Gadwall
19) American Wigeon
20) Canvasback
21) Ring-necked Duck
22) Lesser Scaup
23) Bufflehead
24) Common Merganser
25) Ruddy Duck
26) Turkey Vulture
27) Bald Eagle
28) Northern Harrier
29) Sharp-shinned Hawk
30) Cooper's Hawk
31) Red-tailed Hawk
32) Golden Eagle
33) American Kestrel
34) Peregrine Falcon
35) Ring-necked Pheasant
36) Gambel's Quail
37) Common Moorhen
38) American Coot
39) Killdeer
40) Black-necked Stilt
41) American Avocet
42) Greater Yellowlegs
43) Least Sandpiper
44) Long-billed Dowitcher
45) Wilson's Snipe
46) Ring-billed Gull
47) Rock Dove
48) White-winged Dove
49) Mourning Dove
50) Inca Dove
51) Burrowing Owl
52) Broad-billed Hummingbird
53) Anna's Hummingbird
54) Belted Kingfisher
55) Gila Woodpecker
56) Red-naped Sapsucker
57) Ladder-backed Woodpecker
58) Northern Flicker
59) Black Phoebe
60) Say's Phoebe
61) Ash-throated Flycatcher
62) Horned Lark
63) Purple Martin
64) Violet-green Swallow
65) Northern Rough-winged Swallow
66) Cliff Swallow
67) Steller's Jay
68) Western Scrub-Jay
69) Black-billed Magpie
70) American Crow
71) Common Raven
72) Mountain Chickadee
73) Verdin
74) Bushtit
75) Red-breasted Nuthatch
76) Cactus Wren
77) Canyon Wren
78) Bewick's Wren
79) Marsh Wren
80) Ruby-crowned Kinglet
81) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
82) Mountain Bluebird
83) Hermit Thrush
84) Rufous-backed Robin
85) American Robin
86) Northern Mockingbird
87) Brown Thrasher
88) Curve-billed Thrasher
89) Phainopepla
90) European Starling
91) Orange-crowned Warbler
92) Yellow-rumped Warbler
93) Common Yellowthroat
94) Wilson's Warbler
95) Northern Cardinal
96) Yellow Grosbeak*
97) Green-tailed Towhee
98) Spotted Towhee
99) Abert's Towhee
100) Brewer's Sparrow
101) Vesper Sparrow
102) Song Sparrow
103) Lincoln's Sparrow
104) White-crowned Sparrow
105) Dark-eyed Junco
106) Red-winged Blackbird
107) Western Meadowlark
108) Yellow-headed Blackbird
109) Brewer's Blackbird
110) Great-tailed Grackle
111) Brown-headed Cowbird
112) Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
113) Black Rosy-Finch
114) Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
115) House Finch
116) Lesser Goldfinch
117) American Goldfinch
118) House Sparrow

* Denotes a 'life bird'.

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