Mount Lemmon Birding

As Spring Migration continues and it gets down below, Mount Lemmon attracts birds (and people) of all sorts. Here are a few photos from yesterday:

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Olive Warbler Female

Olive Warbler Male

Red Faced Warbler

Spotted Towhee

Virginia's Warbler

Western Bluebird

Yellow Eyed Junco

More from Rose Canyon Lake, Mount Lemmon

Other nice photos from Rose Canyon Lake on Mount Lemmon:

Blue Grey Gnatcatcher

House Wren

Olive Warbler

Pine Siskin

Plumbeous Vireo

Western Bluebird

Birding Santa Cruz Flats in Arizona

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Santa Cruz Flats is one of the great winter birding spots. There are riparian areas along the Santa Cruz River, scrub desert, and farmlands. All provide a wide variety of birding experiences. Here are a sample of birds photographed on December 9, 2015:

American Kestrel

American Pipit

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Burrowing Owl

Common Ground Dove

Oops, a Coyote

Crested Caracara

Ferruginous Hawk

Snowy Plover

Prairie Falcon

Roadrunner

Rock Wren

Birding Mount Lemmon - VIII

And the last of Birding Mount Lemmon:

Black Throated Gray Warbler

Yellow Eyed Junco feeding her young

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Common Raven

Western Bluebird

McDonald Park, Tucson, Arizona

I have to keep reminding myself that municipal parks can offer very good birding opportunities. One such park, McDonald Park, is about one mile from our B&B. I made a quick stop and in less than 15 minutes found an adult Cooper's Hawk with three fledglings, a couple of Ash Throated Flycatchers, and several Blue Gray Gnatcatchers.

Ash Throated Flycatcher

Cooper's Hawk Fledgling

Cooper's Hawk Fledgling

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Another Birding Trip Up Mount Lemmon - Part X

And, finally:

Bell's Vireo

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Downy Woodpecker

Painted Redstart

Hammond's Flycatcher