April 23rd, 2011   Tags: , , , , , ,

AveVentura Birdathon 2011

The AveVentura team – Robert Merideth, Linda Stitzer, Kathy Jacobs, Susan Randolph, Ed Tobin and I – took part in this year’s Birdathon in aid of Tucson Audubon Society. We ended with the team’s best ever total of 123 species. Here are some highlights… [...]

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April 10th, 2011   Tags: , , ,

April Workshop: Sweetwater

Violet-green-Swallow-Santa-Cruz-River-11-0410-08The swallows were phenomenal, with hundreds of TREE and smaller numbers of CLIFF, NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED and VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS all swarming just over the water’s surface, peeling off and flying within inches of us. It was an fantastic experience and we stood for two hours, enjoying the show and getting photos. [...]

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April 6th, 2011   Tags: , ,

Crossroads Park, Sweetwater Wetlands

The TENNESSEE WARBLER was in the same willows as previously reported. The swallow show was remarkable, with great clouds of them stretching the length of the river. The majority were TREE SWALLOWS, with NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED the next commonest followed by VIOLET-GREEN and CLIFF SWALLOWS. [...]

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March 28th, 2011   Tags: ,

Never mind the Bullock’s…

Bullocks-Oriole-Eds-House-11-0328-01I joined Ed Tobin and Laura Stewart in the evening to look for Ed’s two male BULLOCK’S ORIOLES again. At around 5:00 one of these fabulous birds came down for grape jelly. Ed has since told me he now has three male orioles coming to his little paradise in midtown Tucson – wow! [...]

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March 26th, 2011   Tags: ,

Sweetwater, Ft Lowell Park

Verdin-Ft-Lowell-Park-11-0326-04There were plenty of highlights as Tucson’s best birding site continues to impress. My favorites were four male BULLOCK’S ORIOLES, although the HARRIS’S HAWKS are always in with a shout. BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRDS have joined the ANNA’S and were seen in a couple of spots. LINCOLN’S SPARROWS were plentiful, especially around the Hidden Pond at dawn. [...]

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