Arizona Sampler, 3

I'll be heading up Cave Creek Canyon later today and will be without internet until I finally return home around the 30th. I hope to have additional photos, and of course, columns and descriptions of the birding in Arizona. My columns are scheduled to be posted, as usual, on the next couple of Saturdays.

Sandhill Cranes, late afternoon, at Whitewater Draw ...

Vermillion Flycatcher ...

Mexican Jay ...

grazing American Widgeons, near golf course and treatment ponds in Willcox ...

young Black-crowned Night Heron, also at wetlands near Willcox golf course ...


Good Birding!

Arizona Sampler

Participated in Wings Over Willcox birding festival. The all day trip for Southwest Winter Specialties was very productive, traveling the length of sulphur Springs Valley, through farmland, ranchland, grassland, some mountains, and wetlands. In vicinity of Whitewater Draw, here are a few:

Ladder-backed Woodpecker ...


American Pipit (although we tried to make it into Sprague's, but then someone read Sibley who said - does not bob tail, and this guy was bobbing its tail) ...


Vermilion Flycatcher ...

Brewer's Sparrow (talk about a non-descript, little brown bird, this is it!) ...

Pied-billed Grebe and Eared Grebe (froze my tush at Niles Beach near Gloucester, MA, looking for this bird a few days before leaving on this trip) ...

More soon. Good Birding!!