Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - confirmed presence, Spring & Fall,
riparian
Polioptila caerulea
Size: 4.5" - Old World Warbler
Blue-gray above; white below; eye ring white; male: black line over eye summer;
tail black, white outer feathers. Often wags tail sideways.
Song thin, wheezy.
IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS
Sighted at the
Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group --
7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - as of '04
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