Sunday, March 1, 2015

Not your daily birds


Photo by Mark Hengesbaugh 2/18/2015

Mark writes:

The day Mardi Gras ended (Wednesday 2/18/2015), we got this nice look at a Louisiana Waterthrush at Sabino Dam. They are rare visitors to our area, usually staying east of the Mississippi. Waterthrushes are warblers, but they do something unusual: they continuously bob their tails up and down. Sabino has hosted a wayward Louisiana Waterthrush at the dam during winter for two years in a row.


Photo by Ned Harris 2/16/2015

Ned, Lyn, and I saw this flock of Neotropic Cormorants flying in loose formation.



Photo by Ned Harris 2/16/2015

And Ned caught this rather bewildered-looking male Black-tailed Gnatcatcher on the same day. Maybe he's dreaming about flying with the Neotropic Cormorants.


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