“Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there's a certain amount of expectation we'll see something, maybe even a species we've never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don't see anything remarkable - and sometimes that happens - we come home filled with light anyway.” ―
Lynn Thomson,
Birding with Yeats: A Memoir
Most of these birds were from Gilbert Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona. The Barn Owl was from the Raptor Free Flight Demonstration at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The set of three images of Sandhill Cranes were from Whitewater Draw south of Tucson, Arizona.
Black Necked Stilts
Green Heron
Ring-necked Ducks
Ring-necked Duck
American Avocet
Kingfisher
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Northern Shoveler
Verdin
Male Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Female Hooded Merganser
Great Egret
Anna's Hummingbird
Sandhill Cranes
Sandhill Cranes
Sandhill Cranes
Adult and Juvenile Harris Hawk
Barn Owl
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
