New Year's Day at Tres Rios with Robert Carter
New Year's Day at Tres Rios with Robert Carter
Estrella Village, AZ
Start your year list off with a bang at Tres Rios. We’ll be taking a walk along the South side of the overbank wetlands looking for waterfowl at dawn, make our way along the path between the marsh, and desert scrub, and then take a walk to the end of the flow regulated wetlands, checking the mesqui…
Wednesday, January 1 2025
7:30 AM
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12:00 PM
Fountain Hills Botanical Garden and Lake with Kathe
Fountain Hills Botanical Garden and Lake with Kathe
Fountain Hills, AZ
We’ll meet about 7:30 to 7:45 in Fountain Hills, to start birding at the Botanical Garden, hoping to catch the common desert birds. We will then move onto the lake, where we should find a variety of waterfowl, plus waders, shorebirds and surprises. We’ll wrap up about 10:30 in Fountain Hills. Di…
Sunday, December 1 2024
7:30 AM
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10:30 PM
Lake Pleasant with Charles Babbitt
Lake Pleasant with Charles Babbitt
Morristown, AZ
Lake Pleasant Tuesday December 10, 2024 We will spend most of the morning scanning the lake from various locations looking for water birds (ducks, grebes, loons and gulls). Bring a scope if you have one. We will meet at the main entrance to the regional park (41835 N Castle Springs Road) at 8 am…
Tuesday, December 10 2024
8:00 AM
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12:00 PM
Riverview Park and Mesa Recharge Basins
Riverview Park and Mesa Recharge Basins
Mesa, AZ
This is a nice park with a lake and open grassy areas near the Cubs spring training facility. There may be some open space birds like meadowlarks or sparrows around at this season. Incredibly, the lake hosted a Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel in 2016. If we find anything half that rare, we will be doing …
Tuesday, November 19 2024
7:15 AM
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10:00 AM
Buckeye/Arlington with Kathe Anderson
Buckeye/Arlington with Kathe Anderson
Tempe, AZ
Thanks to Donna Smith of Sonoran Audubon Society, there’s a great route around Buckeye/Arlington, west of Phoenix, through agricultural fields that is reliable for burrowing owls and diurnal raptors, sparrows and common desert species, plus waterfowl at canals and farm ponds. Time: Start in Te…
Saturday, January 11 2025
6:45 AM
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12:00 PM
Mini-Big Day From Top of the World to Gilbert Water Ranch
Mini-Big Day From Top of the World to Gilbert Water Ranch
Gilbert, AZ
This is a fast-paced field trip to a variety of habitats to see as many birds as we can before lunch (1:30ish) We've usually tallied between 65-75 species, and always have a few nice surprises. We'll start about 6:45 AM from Gilbert, head est to the oak/juniper habitat of Top of the World at about …
Monday, November 18 2024
6:45 AM
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2:30 PM
Thunderbird Conservation Park and Arrowhead Lake with Torin Waters
Thunderbird Conservation Park and Arrowhead Lake with Torin Waters
Glendale, AZ
This outing should provide a good mix of common desert birds and water birds. We’ll start at Thunderbird Conservation Park and look for Sonoran Desert species such as Cactus Wren, Black-throated Sparrow, Gilded Flicker, and Loggerhead Shrike. The picnic area and wash could hold some wintering sparr…
Tuesday, January 28 2025
7:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Phoenix Mountains Preserve - Piestewa nature Trail with Robert Carter
Phoenix Mountains Preserve - Piestewa nature Trail with Robert Carter
Phoenix, AZ
Come along for an early morning stroll around the Piestewa Nature Trail at the foot of Piestewa Peak. This shrub-steppe habitat boasts the iconic Saguaro Cactus – home to many cavity nesters through the work of Gila Woodpeckers and Gilded Flickers. Also ocotillo, a winterfavorite of Costa’s Humming…
Thursday, January 16 2025
7:00 AM
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11:00 AM
Sunset Birding at Tempe Marsh with Robert Carter
Sunset Birding at Tempe Marsh with Robert Carter
Tempe, AZ
East of Tempe Town Lake is Tempe Marsh, a productive habitat throughout the year. Winter is especially good for observing waterfowl species. If you’re intrigued by the concept of “weird duck season”,this may just be the outing for you. We might even see some weird non-duck waterfowl, like grebes, c…
Saturday, January 4 2025
4:00 PM
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6:00 PM
Better Birding Basics at Rio Salado with Robert Carter
Better Birding Basics at Rio Salado with Robert Carter
Phoenix, AZ
This outing is for birders of all skill levels with an interest in improving their bird ID skills. We will focus on size and shape, as a furtive glance is often all we have to go on when birding. It turns out information as spars as size and shape can determine many species, even in poor light. Bi…
Saturday, January 25 2025
8:00 AM
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10:00 AM
