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

Santa Cruz Flats: Other Birding Finds

In addition to the raptors, there were other nice photos ops including a Black Bellied Plover. It is one of the most reliable places to find the Eurasian Collard Dove (if that's something you are interested in). Here are a few photos from my trip last week:

Black Bellied Plover

Burrowing Owl

Eurasian Collard Dove

Great Blue Heron

Killdeer

Lark Bunting

Common Raven

Rock Wren

Other Photos from Mount Lemmon

In additional to the Grace's Warbler, I found Black Throated Gray Warblers, Painted Redstarts, Red Faced Warblers, Hermit and Swainson's Thrushes, Pygmy and White Breasted Nuthatches, House and Rock Wrens, more Yellow Eyed Junco's than you could count, Dusky Flycatcher, Cordilleran Flycatcher, Greater and Western Wood Pewee's, Raven's, Turkey Vulture, Red Tailed Hawks, oh ......... and a little family of Wild Turkeys. Here are some of the photos:

Wild Turkey Chick

Hermit Thrush

House Wren

Red Faced Warbler

Raven

Greater Pewee

Rock Wren

Black Throated Gray Warbler

Painted Redstart

Another Birding Trip Up Mount Lemmon - Part VII

Or Canyon Wrens, Rock Wrens:

Canyon Wren

Rock Wren