Goodyear Arizona. Just west of Phoenix. We’re getting closer to Colorado.
Here for a couple days at a good WiFi park to get some work done. Pulled
in. Parked. Set out a feeder. Got swamped by house sparrows, house
finches, mourning doves, inca doves, and one Bendire’s thrasher. Got a gila
woodpecker. A few grackles. Some white crowned sparrows. It’s a nice
birdy place to hang out in for a couple days. Rags the cat agrees.
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We don’t see many owls. When we do see an owl, it’s always a great horned
owl. Except this one. We saw him at the bird lady’s place in Salineno. It’s an eastern screech owl.
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Our resident coot at Gulf Waters.
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Here’s something you don’t see very often. A Brown Jay. Eating an orange. It’s big like a magpie. A rare bird on this side of the border.
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The really cool thing about black and white warblers is how they behave.
They don’t perch, or hop from branch to branch. They land on the tree trunk
and crawl around like a mouse exploring a maze. They have just the right
combination of mass, strength, and fingernails to make it look like gravity
does not apply to them. They don’t hold still for long. I was lucky to get that picture of him I
sent a couple days ago. Most pictures looked more like this one.