Las Cruces, New Mexico

Kristi & Wes Lane

We’re passionate about birds and nature. That’s why we opened a Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop in our community.

Las Cruces, New Mexico

2001 E. Lohman Ave.,
Suite 130
Las Cruces, NM 88001

Phone: (575) 523-5489
Fax: (575) 523-5499
Email: Send Message

Store Hours:
Mon - Fri: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sat: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

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12/27 Trumpeter Swans - Las Cruces Dam

12/20 Black Crowned Night Heron - Burn Lake

Pied-billed Grebe

12/17 Orange Crowned Warbler - Country Club

12/14 Sharp-shinned Hawk - Missions Area

12/10 Bewick's Wren - Roadrunner

12/10 Lesser Goldfinches - Picacho

12/10 Pyrrhuloxia - Mesilla Bridge

12/10 Northern Flicker - Elks area

12/10 Robins - Cielo Bonita Ct

12/9 Female Bullock's Oriole - Mesilla Park

12/9 American Goldfinches - Deming

12/9 Broad-billed Hummingbird - N Valley

12/8 Thousands of Yellow-headed Blackbirds - Swan Pond

12/8 Female Mountain Bluebird - La Mesa

12/7 Black Rosy Finch - Sandia Peak

Gray-crowned Rosy Finch

White and Red-breasted Nuthatches

Mountain Chickadees

Stellar Jays

12/6 Belted Kingfisher - Mesilla Bridge

12/6  Anna's Hummingbird - Las Cruces Dam

Black-Necked Stilts

Northern Harrier

Burrowing Owl

Lesser Goldfinches

Green-tailed Towhee

12/5 Wilson's Warbler - Taylor Rd

12/4 Green-tailed Towhee - La Mesa

12/3 Belted Kingfisher - Picacho Bridge

12/3 Rufous Hummingbird - Lopez Rd

12/1 Anna's Hummingbird - Majestic Ridge

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

11/29 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - University & Telshor

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

11/27 Pine Siskins - Fairacres

11/25 Amercian Kestrel - Las Alturas

11/23 Western Bluebird - Dripping Springs

Golden-crowned Kinglet

11/23 Crissal Thrasher - La Mesa

11/19 Yellow-rumped Warblers - N Valley

11/19 Rufous Hummingbird - N Valley

11/18 American Goldfinch - Lopez Rd

11/17 Eastern Phoebe - Picacho Bridge

11/15 Anna's Hummingbird - NE Del Rey

11/14 Pink-sided Juncos - Elks area

11/14 Juncos - Downtown, Las Cruces

11/13 Golden Eagle - University & "A" Mountain

11/12 Rufous and Anna's Hummingbirds - N Valley

11/10 Rock Wren - La Mesa

11/8 Bald Eagle - Bosque del Apache

Mountain Bluebird

Hooded Merganser

11/7 Yellow-rumped Warbler - La Mesa

Pee Wee

11/5 Golden Eagle - El Paso, TX

11/5 Rufous Hummingbird - N Valley

11/4 Cooper's Hawk - Las Alturas

11/4 Titmouse - Dona Ana Rd

11/3 Yellow-headed Blackbirds - Mesquite

11/1 Trumpeter Swans - Rio Grande

10/30 Green-tailed Towhee - La Mesa

10/29 Juncos - Telshor

10/28 American Crows - all over Mesilla Valley

10/26 Rufous Crowned Cassins, Black-chinned Hummingbird - Dripping Springs

Black-throated Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Brewers Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow

10/26 White-crowned Sparrows - La Mesa

Pine Siskins

10/24 Rufous Hummingbird,  - North Valley

Black-chinned Hummingbird

10/21 Bewick's Wren - La Mesa

10/20 Great Blue Heron - La Mesa

10/13 Northern Harrier - La Mesa

10/11 Killdeer - North Valley

10/8 Ladderback Woodpecker - Elks area

Northern Flicker

10/5 White-crowned Sparrows - North Valley

Cattle Egrets

10/4 American White Pelicans Bosque del Apache

Sandhill Cranes

10/4 Scrub Jays - Coshise Trail, Las Cruces

10/2 Belted Kingfisher - La Mesa

10/1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Roadunner area

10/1 Golden Eagle - Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park

9/26 Cassin's Vireo - East Mesa area

9/1 Black-chinned Hummingbird - Country Club area

Rufous Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

8/25 3 Great Blue Herons - La Mesa

8/20 Black-tailed Gull - Brantley Lake

8/13 Black Terns and Elk - Bosque del Apache

8/13 Indigo Bunting - Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park

8/10 Lark Bunting - La Mesa

8/9 Black-headed Grosbeak - Fairacres

8/2 Blue Grosbeak - Bosque del Apache

7/28 Broad-tailed Hummingbird - Candlelight

7/20 Phainopepla - Barr Canyon

7/12 White-tailed Kite

Peregrin Falcon

Yellow-breasted Chat

Black-headed Grosbeak

Bullock's Oriole - Mesilla Valley Bosque Park

7/11 Rufous Hummingbird - HIll

Swainson's Hawk - Telshor

7/10 Rufous Hummingbird - La Mesa

7/9 Rufous Hummingbird - Taylor Rd

7/6 Common Black Buzzard, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel - Organ Mountain

6/29 White-tailed Kite - Mesilla

6/28 Green Heron - Dona Ana

6/25 Indigo Bunting - La Mesa

6/24 Summer Tanager - Picacho Hills

6/19 Summer Tanager - Percha Dam

6/12 Bronzed Cowbird - Telshor and University

6/9 Verdin, Scaled Quail - Las Alturas area

6/7 Indigo Bunting - Mesquite Bridge

6/1 Phainopepla - Dripping Springs Rd

Mississippi Kite, Cave Swallows - N Valley

Sighted in June at a feeder in Alamogordo:  Pyrrhuloxia, Green-tailed Towhee, Blue Grosbeak, Black-headed Grosbeak, Bullock's Oriole, Scott's Oriole, Bewick's Wren and Verdin

5/31 Painted Buntings, Ash-throated Flycatchers, Warbling Vireo and Yellowbreasted Chat - south of La Mesa

5/24 Summer Tanager, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western PeeWees, Bullock's Oriole, Willow Flycatcher, Cordilleran Flycatcher, Blackheaded Grosbeak, Great-Horned Owl family - Mesilla Dam and Mesilla

5/19 Western Tanager - Alamogordo

5/16 Summer Tanager -Percha Canyon

5/16 Indigo Bunting - La Mesa

5/14 Bluebird - between I-10 and Picacho Bridge

5/10 Ladderback Woodpecker - Mesilla

5/9 Lark Bunting, Blackheaded Grosbeak - Dripping Springs Rd

4 Western Tanagers, Green-tailed Towhees, Olive-sided Flycatchers - N Valley 

Yellow Chat and Yellow-rumped Warblers - La Mesa

Rose-breasted Grosbeak and 4 male and 1 female Blackheaded Grosbeaks - La Mesa

(eating no-melt dough)

5/8 Western PeeWee - North Valley

5/7 Prairie Falcon - Los Colinas

Lark Bunting - Talavera

5/6 Blackheaded Grosbeak - La Mesa

5/4 Lark Buntings, Phainopepla, Lark Sparrows and Chipping Sparrows, - east levee of river

Blue Grosbeak, Prairie Falcon - Percha

Prairie Falcon, Summer Tanagers, Long-billed Dowitchers - Mesilla Valley Bosque Park

Eastern Meadowlark - Mesilla

5/3 Green-tailed Towhee - Mesilla

Yellowbreasted Chat, Olive-sided Flycatcher  - La Mesa

Indigo Buntings, Blue Grosbeak, Kentucky Warbler, Summer Tanager- La Mesa

Western Tanager - east side of river in fruit/mulberry trees

Macgillvary's Warbler - Country Club

Orange-Crowned Warbler - Country Club

Bullocks and Hooded Orioles - Country Club - on Ocotillos

5/1 Wilson's Warblers - La Mesa, Dripping Springs, Taylor Rd

Cerulean Warbler - Cedardale Loop

4/25 White Faced Ibis - Union & Valdez area

4/19 Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher - Mesilla Valley Bosque Park

Aplomado Falcon - Radium Springs

Orchard Oriole - Four Hills

4/16 Hooded Oriole - Country Club area

Cliff Swallow - Silver City

Barn Swallow- Silver City

Violet Green Swallow- Silver City

Tree Swallow- Silver City

Western Bluebird - Elks area

 

4/13 Ruby Crowned Kinglet - Aguirre Springs

Cactus Wren - Aguirre Springs

Broadtailed Hummingbird- Aguirre Springs

Ferruginous Hawk- Aguirre Springs

Canyon Towhee- Aguirre Springs

Dusky Flycatcher- Aguirre Springs

Grace's Warbler - North Valley

White Crowned Sparrow- North Valley

Lazuli Bunting - North Valley

 

4/11 Red Crossbill - Las Alturas area

Painted Redstart - Fort Seldon area

 

4/5 Swainson's Hawk - North Valley

Western Kingbird - North Valley

 

Bullock's Orioles

Hooded Orioles

Scott's Orioles

 

Painted Redstart

Ft. Seldon area

 

 Hummingbirds

sighted all over the valley

 

Red-naped Sapsucker

sighted 4/1/08 in the Highway 70 and Mesa Grande area.

 

Photo taken by Ken 

 

 3/15/08 -23 American White Pelicans

  sighted at the Mesilla bridge

 

Least Sandpipers and Northern Shovelers

  sighted in the Mesilla Bosque Park

 

3/6/08  Poorwill

  sighted in the La Mesa area (early arrival)

 

Northern Flickers

  sighted in the Las Alturas area and in the Country Club Estates

 

 a pair of Western Scrub Jays

  sighted in La Mesa

 

Green-tailed Towhee

  sighted in La Mesa

 

Red-breasted Nuthatches

  sighted at Percha

 

Rough-winged and Cliff Swallows

  sighted in the North Valley

 

Lawrence Goldfinch

  sighted at Caballo

 

Western Meadowlark

  sighted in Mesilla Bosque Park, La Mesa and Hillsboro

 

Spotted Towhees

  sighted in Mesilla Bosque Park, Country Club Estates and La Mesa

 

Black-throated Sparrow

  sighted in East Mesa

 

Great Egrets and Blue Herons

  sighted in Mesilla Bosque Park

 

Hermit Thrush, Golden Eagle and Northern Harrier

  sighted on Mesilla Valley Audubon field trip to Aguirre Springs

 

Red Crossbills

  sighted in the Telshor area

 

Belted Kingfisher

  sighted at the Mesilla bridge

 

Northern Harrier

  sighted in the North Valley and North Alameda areas

 

Western Screech Owl

  sighted in the La Mesa area

 

White-tailed Kite

  sighted in the Mesilla Bosque Park