Located in Southeastern Arizona, around Elfrida.
My birding buddy, Inez and I went on December 31, 2009, which I though was a great way to end the year! We left Tucson about 7:30am and arrived about an hour later to Cochise Lake, right outside of Willcox. A number of pond swimmers: Buffelhead, Canvasback, American Coot, Common Mersanger, American Pipit, American Wigeon, and Ruddy Duck. We walked over to the Twin Lakes golf course ponds and spotted a Black-Crowned Night Heron, Green Heron, Pied-billed Grebe. I heard a hoot-hoot so we thought it could be a burrowing owl and after searching realized it was a Eurasian-collared Dove. The highlight here was when the Say's Phoebe perched on Inez's head!
Traveling down Highway 191 we stopped to see what the flock of sparrows would reveal. We found White-crowned Sparrows, Chipping Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Lark Bunting, Curved-billed Thrasher, and a mystery bird. Along the drive we spotted American Kestrel, Red-tailed Hawk, Northern Harrier, Chihuahuan Raven, and a few Loggerhead Shrikes.
We arrived at Whitewater Draw and viewed more pond-swimmers and shore birds: Killdeer, Great Egret, more Bufflehead, Black Phoebe, some sort of Sandpiper. We walked to another area of WWD and immediately saw a bright white something, and got closer and it was a beautiful Bald Eagle. We saw the thousands of Sandhill Cranes off in a distance. A magnificent sight.
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