Arizona - California Trip ~ March 1, 2018

We had about three hours of birding time before we had to be at the airport, so we visited the Gilbert Water Ranch. The large impoundment held American White Pelican, Neotropic Cormorant, Great and Snowy Egret, Black-necked Stilt, American Avocet, and Least Sandpiper.

American White Pelicans

Black-necked Stilt

The ponds held several species of waterfowl including Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintail, Cinnamon Teal, Northern Shoveler, American Wigeon, and Ring-necked and Ruddy Duck.

Green-winged Teal

Cinnamon Teal

Northern Shoveler

Ring-necked Duck

With directions from the 'locals', we were able to see the young Calliope Hummingbird that had been reported there.

On the way back out to the car, a Curve-billed Thrasher and a Verdin gave me chances at more photos.

Curve-billed Thrasher

Verdin

Other birds seen there included Pied-billed Grebe, Great Blue and Green Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Gambel's Quail, Inca Dove, Anna's Hummingbird, Belted Kingfisher, Tree, Cliff, and Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Cactus Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Orange-crowned and "Audubon's" Warbler, Abert's Towhee, Red-winged Blackbird, Great-tailed Grackle, and a Harris's Hawk that dove through a group of dowitchers.

We turned in our car with an additional 1630 miles on it, flew back to Philadelphia, and got home late Thursday night.

I got to see two new birds among a total of 159 species.
All photos from the trip can be found in my Arizona Photo Album and my California Photo Album.

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Arizona - California Trip ~ February 24 - March 1, 2018
1) Canada Goose
2) Brant
3) Mallard
4) Green-winged Teal
5) American Wigeon
6) Northern Pintail
7) Northern Shoveler
8) Cinnamon Teal
9) Ring-necked Duck
10) Lesser Scaup
11) Surf Scoter
12) Bufflehead
13) Red-breasted Merganser
14) Ruddy Duck
15) Wild Turkey
16) Gambel's Quail
17) Pacific Loon
18) Common Loon
19) Pied-billed Grebe
20) Eared Grebe
21) Western Grebe
22) Nazca Booby***
23) American White Pelican
24) Brown Pelican
25) Neotropic Cormorant
26) Brandt's Cormorant
27) Double-crested Cormorant
28) Black-crowned Night-Heron
29) Green Heron
30) Reddish Egret
31) Snowy Egret
32) Great Egret
33) Great Blue Heron
34) American Flamingo (escapee)
35) Turkey Vulture
36) Black Vulture
37) Osprey
38) Northern Harrier
39) Golden Eagle
40) Sharp-shinned Hawk
41) Cooper's Hawk
42) Harris's Hawk
43) Zone-tailed Hawk
44) Red-tailed Hawk
45) Ferruginous Hawk
46) American Kestrel
47) Merlin
48) Prairie Falcon
49) American Coot
50) Black-bellied Plover
51) Killdeer
52) American Avocet
53) Black-necked Stilt
54) Willet
55) Spotted Sandpiper
56) Long-billed Curlew
57) Marbled Godwit
58) Black Turnstone
59) Surfbird
60) Red Knot
61) Dunlin
62) Western Sandpiper
63) Least Sandpiper
64) Dowitcher species
65) Heermann's Gull
66) California Gull
67) Western Gull
68) Royal Tern
69) Rock Pigeon
70) Mourning Dove
71) Eurasian Collared-Dove
72) White-winged Dove
73) Ruddy Ground-Dove
74) Inca Dove
75) Greater Roadrunner
76) White-throated Swift
77) Violet-crowned Hummingbird
78) Rivoli's Hummingbird
79) Costa's Hummingbird
80) Anna's Hummingbird
81) Calliope Hummingbird
82) Allen's Hummingbird
83) Elegant Trogon
84) Belted Kingfisher
85) Acorn Woodpecker
86) Gila Woodpecker
87) Northern "Red-shafted" Flicker
88) Red-naped Sapsucker
89) Ladder-backed Woodpecker
90) Arizona Woodpecker
91) Hammond's Flycatcher
92) Black Phoebe
93) Say's Phoebe
94) Vermilion Flycatcher
95) Ash-throated Flycatcher
96) Cassin's Kingbird
97) Rose-throated Becard
98) Loggerhead Shrike
99) Hutton's Vireo
100) Plumbeous Vireo
101) Cassin's Vireo
102) Mexican Jay
103) American Crow
104) Chihuahuan Raven
105) Common Raven
106) Horned Lark
107) Tree Swallow
108) Violet-green Swallow
109) Cliff Swallow
110) Northern Rough-winged Swallow
111) Bridled Titmouse
112) Verdin
113) Brown Creeper
114) White-breasted Nuthatch
115) House Wren
116) Bewick's Wren
117) Cactus Wren
118) Ruby-crowned Kinglet
119) Hermit Thrush
120) Rufous-backed Robin
121) Northern Mockingbird
122) Curve-billed Thrasher
123) European Starling
124) American Pipit
125) Phainopepla
126) Orange-crowned Warbler
127) Yellow-rumped "Audubon's" Warbler
128) Black-and-white Warbler
129) Black-throated Gray Warbler
130) Townsend's Warbler
131) Painted Restart
132) Hepatic Tanager
133) Green-tailed Towhee
134) Canyon Towhee
135) Abert's Towhee
136) Spotted Towhee
137) Rufous-winged Sparrow
138) Chipping Sparrow
139) Lark Sparrow
140) Lincoln's Sparrow
141) Song Sparrow
142) Vesper Sparrow
143) White-crowned Sparrow
144) Dark-eyed Junco
145) Yellow-eyed Junco
146) Northern Cardinal
147) Pyrrhuloxia
148) Western Meadowlark
149) Red-winged Blackbird
150) Great-tailed Grackle
151) Brewer's Blackbird
152) Brown-headed Cowbird
153) Streak-backed Oriole***
154) Cassin's Finch
155) House Finch
156) Red Crossbill
157) Pine Siskin
158) Lesser Goldfinch
159) House Sparrow

*** denotes life bird.

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