Birding Southeastern Arizona
August 2-12, 2010 (including 2 travel days)
For non-avian aspects of our trip, click here.

Violet-crowned Hummingbird female Anna's Hummingbird Magnificent Hummingbird

Costa's Hummingbird/ Broad-tailed Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird

Broad-billed Hummingbird White-eared Hummingbird Blue-throated Hummingbird

Hooded Oriole Pyrrhuloxia Mexican Jay

Northern Cardinal Black-headed Grosbeak female Yellow Warbler

Cactus Wren Curve-billed Thrasher Western Wood-Pewee Brown-crested Flycatcher

Say's Phoebe Gila Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker

Gambel's Quail Turkey Vulture Turkey

American Avocet Swainson's Hawk

Wilson's Phalarope Lesser Goldfinch White-winged Dove

• Violet-crowned hummingbird in flight;
• Anna's Hummingbird, male; another; the showcased female from the back; Three more female Anna's individuals: mouth open; on a branch; at a feeder.
• Magnificent Hummingbird hovering; perching; doing the hokey pokey.
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird male; female; a male Broad-tailed; I take the red cast under the bill on this Broad-tailed male to be an artifact of the photo.
• Black-chinned Hummingbird hovering; back view; I think these three are male Black-chinneds too: one; two; three; female Black-chinned and male Broad-billed eye an incoming Broad-billed.
• Broad-billed Hummingbird male; Black-chinned and Broad-billed Hummingbirds in action; Broad-billed Hummingbird, full frontal; Broad-billed Hummingbird at the Paton home in Patagonia, AZ. The bill looks really broad from this angle; Broad-billed Hummingbird and Lesser Goldfinch; Broad-billed Hummingbird inside a structure that impedes bats from sucking the feeder dry overnight. Here's a picture from elsewhere on the web of bats doing just that.
• White-eared Hummingbird at Beatty's; White-eared from the back.
• Blue-throated Hummingbird taken on a stroll around Portal as light waned; On your mark,... get set,...go!
• Hooded Oriole's plumage changes from orange to yellow in August;
• Adult male Pyrrhuloxia in Dave Jasper's yard near the Portal thicket; juvenile Pyrrhuloxia.
• Mexican Jay in Mary Jo Ballator's yard; Mexican Jays on Arizona vegetation; another Mexican Jay.
• Northern Cardinals in Arizona have bigger bills and crests, than, say, this Cardinal I photographed in MA in 2010.
• Black-headed Grosbeak at a feeder at the Walker House in Paradise, AZ; male on a tree trunk; female.
• Cactus Wren, the Arizona State Bird.
• Curve-billed Thrasher: we got this specie early and often; on the ground.
• Western Wood-Pewee.
• Brown-crested Flycatcher on the grounds of the Desert Museum near Tucson; Same bird taken with my Bushnell binocular camera, one of its better efforts.
• Gila Woodpecker on a cactus; Exiting the frame.
• Acorn Woodpecker on a feeder in Ramsey Canyon; Acorn Woodpecker on a tree, back view; from_underneath; Is that an ACORN?; balance beam; Acorn Woodpeckers have done a number on this telephone pole; Acorn Woodpecker (9") atop a utility pole; I used this picture, and pictures of other known-sized species on utility poles, like Swainson's Hawk (19"), Red-tailed Hawks (19"), and Kingbirds, to size Ravens on those same types of poles. Chihuahuan Ravens (19.5") and Common Ravens (24") are distinguishable by size.
• Gambel's Quail; We had our first one in suburban Tucson our first afternoon, our last Gambel's Quail on our last evening in AZ, with many sightings in between.
• Turkey chick: At first glimpse I thought I had a quail, but then I was enchanted to see its siblings and mother.
• Avocet and Phalaropes near Wilcox, AZ.

A Sampling of Other Bird Species Sighted (in taxonomic order):

• Cooper's Hawk
• Black-necked Stilt wading; flying.
• Greater Roadrunner in a weedy vacant lot behind the Tucson Airport La Quinta Inn where we stayed --Nice pool, good value, self-service nourishing breakfast available before 6am, and we had a Verdin and Cooper's Hawk on the grounds.
• Ladder_backed_woodpecker female, Portal, AZ; back_view.
• Black Phoebe at Kingfisher Pond near the San Pedro River.
• Vermilion Flycatcher, one of my favorite birds, but I just could not focus the camera. I could focus my binoculars.
• Verdin
• Phainopepla male; female.
• Canyon Towhee
• Lark Sparrow
• Black-throated_sparrow; This Black-throated Sparrow is at Dave Jasper's near the cautionary sign.
• Blue Grosbeak at San Pedro House; Blue Grosbeak in Dave Jasper's yard.
• House Finch

Birds on cactus:

• Thrasher
• Hooded Oriole
• Gila Woodpecker
• female House Finch
• Unidentified

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