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Jaumave
The Jaumave trip drives th, a very scenic and smooth driving.
It was a beautiful sunny day. The Military Macaws nest on cliffs in the
mountains and fly to the village of Jaumave to eat pecans and other fruits from
the trees in the village during the winter. They are easy to locate when they
fly overhead calling. Once they settle into a tree to feed they can be rather
hard to spot. Usually they are found quickly. Our trip had some trouble and
didn't locate the birds early in the morning. We returned about noon and found
the flock of about 80 birds. Here are two perched in a bare
tree.
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While looking for the macaws we strolled the
cobblestone streets of the village seeing birds both new and familiar.
Summer Tanager, Hermit Warbler, Couch's Kingbird, White-winged Dove,
Curved-billed Thrasher and many northern warblers.
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After strolling around the city we changed to a local
chartered bus for a trip to an old ranch house in the desert .
We looked
without success for Ruddy Ground Dove possible here. We did have Lesser
Goldfinch, Summer and Western Tanagers, Kestrel. |
| Here is the group strolling under the trees in the yard of
the old ranch house. |
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This is a cactus fence which may house owls and woodpeckers.
The ranch house was at one time fortified against attack. |
Children of the village put on a special dance
performance for our visit. They were also selling large flowers made from the
root of some kind of plant.
Visit, buy something , meet the people and
watch the macaws. |
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