November 20th, 2011   Tags: , , , , ,

Sweetwater Wetlands, Anza Trail at Carmen

Gray-Hawk-Amado-11-1117-01For the fifth year in a row, a GRAY HAWK has chosen the Arivaca Road exit on I-19 at Amado as it’s wintering area. It’s probably the only one in the U.S.A. at the moment, but it certainly didn’t make itself difficult to find today. It’s a shame more birds don’t take this approach when it comes to revealing their whereabouts… [...]

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July 25th, 2011   Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Agua Caliente Park, Mt Lemmon

Cordilleran-Flycatcher-Mt-Lemmon-11-0725-07Summerhaven was very birdy, with BAND-TAILED PIGEON, lots of YELLOW-EYED JUNCOS, WESTERN TANAGER, MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRD, several family parties of CORDILLERAN FLYCATCHER, a few VIRGINIA’S WARBLERS, ROCK and HOUSE WRENS feeding young, HERMIT THRUSH, AMERICAN ROBIN and SPOTTED TOWHEE. [...]

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May 19th, 2011   Tags: ,

Lesser Nighthawks

Lesser-Nighthawk-Tucson-11-0519-07At both parks, the LESSER NIGHTHAWKS were hawking for a minute or two before alighting on the pavement. I couldn’t get close enough on foot but as soon as we adopted the cover of the car, I was able to drive slowly up to the grounded birds and get pretty decent photos. [...]

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May 3rd, 2011   Tags: , , , , , , ,

Richard’s Photothon 2011

Black-crowned-Night-Heron-03It was a difficult day with strong winds all morning, making photography of wind-blown warblers and the like somewhat tricky. Despite the weather I continued my year-on-year improvement and got photos of 116 species. I saw/heard another 14 for a total of 130 for the day. Here are some highlights… [...]

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April 30th, 2011   Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Birds of Fray Birdathon 2011

Caspian-Tern-Willcox-11-0430-01I ended on a total of 144 species. At Willcox, six CASPIAN TERNS, 18 RING-BILLED GULLS and three FRANKLIN’S GULLS were the obvious stars. On the shorebird front, single SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and WILLET were among hundreds of peeps. PRAIRIE FALCON and SWAINSON’S HAWK were overhead. [...]

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