We have a young Cooper’s Hawk that has decided that our four tiered bird pond is a great place to soak it’s feet on a hot day. It comes in and just stands in the water next to the water fall so that it gets a little splash, but not [...]
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We do enjoy our quail at our bird feeders here in Portal, Arizona. We normally get good numbers of Gambel’s Quail and Scaled Quail in our yard. We are located in a transition zone between the grasslands enjoyed by the Scaled Quail and the shrubby foothills preferred by the Gambel’s Quail. Quail are what we [...] Portal, Arizona is a place that most dedicated bird watchers visit at least once, most several times and those who don’t mind the desert habitat (but it’s a dry heat) come more often. We quite often find people standing at our gate trying to see what is at our bird feeders. Normally we try to visit [...] We received a phone call from a friend of ours who runs a local B&B. They had a birdwatcher staying with them that was confined to a wheelchair. The birdwatcher had been watching the birds endemic to the canyon for several days and wanted to see the birds that are desert species such as the [...] Suet bird feeders are a staple feeder in many people’s feeding stations. However, in our neck of the woods we do not have many birds which eat suet from suet feeders. The Cactus Wrens and Curve-billed Thrashers do come to visit and seem to enjoy the suet, but we do not have the suet eating [...] We were up with the sun. OK, the sun doesn’t rise all that early this time of year, but our coffee mugs were full and the blinds were open before the sun came up so we should get some credit for that. We started our day looking out the sliding glass door, looking at our bird feeders [...] Those of you who attended Wings over Willcox know what a great time everyone had. The Hawk Watches found even found a Crested Caracara. Many people had great pictures of the cranes and their numbers haven’t been tallied yet, but seem to be about the same as last year. We want to thank everyone who stopped [...] We sat up our booth at the Wings over Willcox Bird and Nature Festival last night. We have two booths so are able to show all of our Bird Feeders and Wildlife Gifts. We were also able to talk to several of the guides at the reception. It looks like they have the birds located and that [...] |
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