I've been needing to list these for you who might care about such things. I am only listing the ones we saw that are not available around Rockport.
Ferruginous Hawk-(the largest of hawks)
Scaled Quail
Gambel's Quail
Greater Roadrunner (we have some here but not very many)
Black Swift
Broad-billed Hummingbird
White-eared Hummingbird (A new bird for me. Absolutely stunning!)
Violet-crowned Hummingbird (This is a beauty!)
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Magnificent Hummingbird (The king of hummers. You can hear him coming!)
Lucifer Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird (These are fairly common in Rockport)
Anna's Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird (They are here but not in big numbers)
Acorn Woodpecker (The clown! They are friendly and funny)
Gila Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood Peewee
Western Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe
Cassin's Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Violet-green Swallow
Gray-breasted Jay (I think these are also Mexican jays.They are quiet)
Raven
Bridled Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper (Ann saw this bird high in the mountains where I couldn't go)
Cactus Wren
Bewick's Wren
Western Bluebird
American Robin
Bendire's Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
Phainopepla (Solid black but with a tuft like a cardinal)
Virginia's Warbler
Lucy's Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
American Redstart
Yellow-breasted Chat
Olive Warbler
Western Tanager
Pyrrhuloxia
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Varied Bunting
Green-tailed Towhee
Abert's Towee
Black-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Western Meadowlark (Ours are mostly eastern meadowlarks)
Hooded Oriole
Pine Grosbeak
We saw NO owls and this is owl country. They weren't there except for great-horned. We saw few warblers as they were not yet migrating. We saw few hawks as the same was true. One morning while I was watching a feeder a coati-mundi came out of the brush to eat some of the feed. It is a long-tailed raccoon-looking critter. I had never seen one. I saw a big brown horned-toad, my first since living in Fort Worth years ago! Javelina were about. Robert walked up on a rattling rattler at a roadside park. He was close! I told you about the one I took pics of on a back road. We saw no illegals that we knew of, but many many Border Patrol vehicles.We did not see Cochise or Geronimo but felt their presence, as this was their home territory. One could easily imagine them looking down from the gigantic boulders perched above us. Bear and Mountain Lion live there. We did visit Paradise. You want to get away? Go to Paradise! Southwest only flies over. No stores. A few mountain homes. Rugged and beautiful place.
This closes out my reportings on Arizona for now.
