Judy Liddell, author of Birding Hotspots of Central New Mexico, takes us on her blog this week to Whitfield Conservation Area, down in Belen, for a look at the winter visitors:
A Northern Harrier swooped low over the field, scattering the larks again, before coming to land in a bare tree on the far side of the field. Another harrier was perched nearby and the red-under-wings of a Northern Flicker flashed in the morning sun as it landed in the same tree as the harrier.
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