Best bird(s) of the day:

Verdin, 2 (heard calling to each other)

The migrants:

• Orange-crowned Warbler, 5
• Eastern Phoebe, 1
• House Wren, 4
• Ash-throated Flycatcher, 1 (This was a surprise. I hadn’t seen ATFL since Sept. 11)
• Indigo Bunting, 1
• Clay-colored Sparrow, 4
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 40+ (Large flocks are migrating through)
• American Robin, 11 (Cedar Gap is reporting large flocks of robins coming in daily out there)
• Blue Jay, 14 (Cedar Gap also reporting large flocks of blue jays and scrub jays)
• White-winged Dove, 83++(they are also forming large migratory flocks. Most were seen flying overhead)

The Returning Winter Residents:

• Spotted Towhee, 2
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 3
• Lincoln’s Sparrow, 8
• American Kestrel, 1

The Other Residents:

• Northern Bobwhite, 4
• Pyrrhuloxia, 3
• Northern Cardinal, 4
• Curve-billed Thrasher, 3
• Greater Roadrunner, 1 (sunning in a tree)
• Canyon Towhee, 1 (with a purple-stained throat from eating ripe prickly pear fruit)
• Cactus Wren, 2
• Bewick’s Wren, 2
• Eastern Bluebird, 1
• Black-crested Titmouse, 4
• Northern Mockingbird, 8
• Mourning Dove, 6
• House Finch, 11
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 2
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 4
• Red-tailed Hawk, 1

All sightings made by Laura except the Cedar Gap sightings by Earlene