Chama Basin Hotspot

[John Rawinski]

I am proposing the Chama Basin Trailhead as a birding hotspot. It is in Archuleta County and It is a fantastic place for Swainsons Thrush, Fox Sparrow, Lincolns Sparrow, Dipper and Sora. It is on Rio GRande National Forest lands so camping permitted in dispersed campsites. Yesterday it even produced a rare to these parts White-eyed Vireo. San Luis Valley only has 6 observations of the white-eyed vireo so far as I know. Check it out sometime. My friend Jake and I ended the morning with 37 species. Fully exciting morning. 

John Rawinski

Monte Vista, CO