Birds

Photos of Birds that live around my home on Coldwater Farm in central Arizona.  (More about Arizona Birds)

We call our 20 acres Coldwater Farm and we keep it for wildlife and a few furry friends. We moved here in 1997, and since then we have identified more than 125 bird species. Some seen only once, others every year.

Great Blue Heron Hunting Valley Pocket Gophers In the floodplain of the Agua Fria River. Dewey-Humboldt, AZ.

Mallards (mostly) on Ice

Black-headed Grosbeak

Cooper’s Hawk

Ring-necked Pheasant

Lesser Goldfinch on Barnyard Grass

These Red Tailed Hawkes have nested in a Cottonwood tree near the Agua Fria River for more than 15 years. 2011 was the first year no chick was produced.

Snowy Egret

Thrasher

Common Black-Hawk

Gambel’s Quail

Greater Roadrunner

Barn Owl

Great Horned Owl chicks

Loggerhead Shrike

Gila Woodpecker (at left)

Downy Woodpecker

Western Wood Pewee

Lazuli Buntings & Black-headed Grosbeak

Cooper’s Hawk

Barn Owl

Belted Kingfisher

Turkey Vulture

Two fledgling Great Blue Herons near the Agua Fria River in Dewey-Humboldt, AZ

Mallards on Ice

Barn Owl Feather

Hummingbird

Eurasian Collard Dove (2005)

Mallards

Lesser Goldfinches

Lesser Goldfinches (The bag is better than feeder; it can be washed.

This Bewick’s Wren cleaned bugs from six feet of concrete expansion joint one afternoon. Helpful little fellows.

Black Hawk

Greater Roadrunner