We loaded up with a big breakfast planning to go for a bike ride. The weather today is on the cool side so we decided to skip the bike ride and go for a trail run at Usery Park. We had not run since before Christmas. We limited our distance to around 7k. It was a terrific run but we both felt the effects of no running for over 7 weeks. Home for lunch and then out the door for birding at Lost Dutchman State Park. We spend 2 hours walking the washes in the lower park area. We identified 13 species of birds. We were actually pleasantly surprised with this number as the park is not know as a birding hot spot. One of the first birds that we spotted was one that we had not seen before. It is an Ash-throated Flycatcher. I got a reasonably good photo of the bird. I have included the photo in this post. I have also included a photo of a Rock Wren, a bird that is very shy and hard to get close too, and the iconic Phainopepla, this one a female. (It was a cloudy day so the quality of the photos was less that the photographer expected.....)
Tomorrow we are driving out to the Boyce Thompson Park. We are hopeful that we will add several new species to our Arizona total.
All for now. Ciao!
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| Ash-throated Flycatcher |
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| Female Phainopepla |
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| Rock Wren (shot the photo through an opening under a Palo Verde Tree. I had about 5 seconds to get the shot. |
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