08 January 2013

More Cibola Critters

We revisited the refuge on New Year's Day.  Here are the other Cibola creatures I was able to photograph.

Taken on Christmas Day

Winter, spring, summer or fall? 

Snow Geese

Gambel's Quails

Osprey

Meadowlark (female)

Great Blue Heron


Taken on New Year's Day

Northern Shovelers and Northern Pintails

Kestrel

Northern Pintail 
Killdeer 
Black Phoebe

Camera shy Ganada Geese and Mallards

Say's Phoebe

Peregrine Falcon

I see you!

Great Egret

Logger Shrike

Yellow-rumped Warbler

07 January 2013

Christmas Cranes

On Christmas Day, we drove to Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, around 50 miles from where we were camping in Quartzsite.  Sandhill cranes winter here, arriving in October and staying until February.  Seeing them for the first time is one of the highlights of our Arizona adventure.