Southeast Arizona Bird Guide, Birding Tours SE AZ: Welcome to Fun Birding Tours in AZ with Richard Fray

Buckeye Thrasher Site

Well, it's probably not a normal experience in July, so don't count on it, but to my amazement it took me only 12 minutes to find a calling LE CONTE'S THRASHER, see it fairly well and get a reasonable record shot. It was nothing more than dumb luck, [...]

Miller Canyon, Ash Canyon

Beatty's Guest Ranch was low on quantity of hummers, but as usual very high on quality. BERYLLINE, WHITE-EARED, BLUE-THROATED, MAGNIFICENT, ANNA'S, BLACK-CHINNED, BROAD-TAILED and BROAD-BILLED were all seen in 40 minutes. We hiked up canyon and enjoyed good looks at a SPOTTED OWL roosting in a [...]

Ash Canyon, Miller Canyon – Hummingbird workshop

At Beatty's Guest Ranch in Miller Canyon we added BERYLLINE (male and female), WHITE-EARED (male and female), BLUE-THROATED (multiple), MAGNIFICENT and BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRDS, plus the leucistic hummingbird thought by most to be a Black-chinned. The feeders were really buzzing as the rain started to fall. SULPHUR-BELLIED FLYCATCHER also put in an [...]

Patagonia, Rio Rico

Patagonia Roadside Rest was productive, despite being mid afternoon. Highlights included WILLOW FLYCATCHER, Cassin's and THICK-BILLED KINGBIRD, a pair of food-carrying VARIED BUNTINGS, four BLACK VULTURES, GRAY HAWK, loads of YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS, calling YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS, [...]

Paton’s, Patagonia

A quick trip to Patagonia today yielded some nice birds. At the Paton house a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO gave us prolonged views. Lots of VIOLET-CROWNED HUMMINGBIRDS are coming to the feeders, including juveniles, and are an almost ever-present feature at the moment. COMMON-GROUND DOVES were here and there (they’ve really bounced back after a few lean [...]

San Pedro House – TAS Field Trip

Highlights at San Pedro House included a TROPICAL KINGBIRD by Kingfisher Pond, with Western and Cassin's present for direct comparison, decent views of a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, 5 COMMON GROUND-DOVES, GRAY HAWKS, singing BOTTERI'S SPARROW, HOODED ORIOLE, stunning BLUE GROSBEAKS and a pair of INDIGO BUNTINGS by the river, the male in [...]

White Mountains

I took off early and tried my luck with Dusky Grouse at Green’s Peak. I couldn’t find any grouse but the consolation prize was just as good – a fine American Three-toed Woodpecker which gave me great views just below the [...]

Madera Canyon

The general birding around Madera Kubo was just amazing: BERYLLINE, BLUE-THROATED, MAGNIFICENT and more HUMMINGBIRDS, BLUE and BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS, FLAME-COLORED, WESTERN, HEPATIC and SUMMER TANAGERS, BRIDLED TITMOUSE, ARIZONA WOODPECKER, BRONZED COWBIRD, BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER, PAINTED REDSTART, HOODED ORIOLE, PLUMBEOUS VIREO and [...]

Pena Blanca Lake, Sycamore Canyon, California Gulch

A ZONE-TAILED HAWK was hunting over the valley midway to the gulch from Ruby Road. In the gulch, FIVE-STRIPED SPARROWS were vocal and reasonably easy to find. At least five birds were tallied between the first and second stream crossings, as well as a good number of VARIED [...]

Black-crowned Night-Heron, Cooper’s Hawk

Whilst on my photothon last week I encountered a couple of birds that I couldn't resist spending a few minutes photographing, even though I was supposed to be on a mission to get quantity of species, not [...]