Headlight Pond
4/17/1971 First birding trip ever. I went
with
Dad. This was the trip where they smashed our headlights. Was it?
Irreverently, I wrote: some cuckoos smashed our headlights out
when we
left the car. (Maybe they weren't cuckoos but they certainly were
cocks.) I also wrote LOCATION: Pond between Mesa and
Scottsdale
Mesa Sewer Flats 4/25/1971 I
loved
these sewer flats
2015 Sierra Vista 4/30/1971 In
the
cactus garden. I wrote: I saw a verdin in our cactus garden. He
jumped
on Don Juan's type of plant. Also, a boat-tailed grackle flew
overhead.
2015 Sierra Vista 5/11/1971
Right
out through the window while I was drinking coffee. A real life
lister.
This was in the tree in the front yard. I remember this as if it
were
yesterday! I wrote "Lifelister. Yellow warbler in palo verde of
front
lawn in the morning." and I drew a picture of a coffee cup.
Verde River 5/16/1971 No Notes
Entered
Generic Texas 5/31/1971
Oklahoma on 1971 Trip 5/31/1971
Texas on 1971 Trip 5/31/1971
No
notes for bird or day.
Missouri on 1971 Trip 6/1/1971
New York on 1971 Trip 6/2/1971
Maine Trip 1971 6/3/1971
Vermont 06/09/1971
Maine Trip 1971 6/10/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Maine Trip 1971 6/12/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Maine Trip 1971 6/13/1971 This
was
the day I saw the baby seal.
Maine Trip 1971 6/14/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Maine Trip 1971 6/15/1971
Tuesday
Cotton Fields Unknown Arizona
6/24/1971
Cotton Fields Salome Arizona
7/12/1971
Cotton Fields Salome Arizona
7/13/1971
No Notes Entered
Cotton Fields Salome Arizona
7/14/1971
No Notes Entered
Cotton Fields Salome Arizona
7/15/1971
No Notes Entered
Cotton Fields Salome Arizona
7/20/1971
No Notes Entered
Cotton Fields Salome Arizona
7/21/1971
No Notes Entered
Cotton Fields Salome Arizona
7/22/1971
Also Swifts of some kind were seen. This ought to go into a
generic swift place.
Cotton Fields Wickenburg Arizona
7/28/1971 Boyer saw a lesser night hawk.
Cotton Fields Wickenburg Arizona
7/29/1971 No Notes Entered
Cotton Fields Wickenburg Arizona
7/30/1971 "Baby sparrows in crotch of
eucalyptus tree. Clear, sparkling water with deep greens" (a small
canal)
Cotton Fields Tucson 8/2/1971
Cotton Fields Tucson 8/3/1971
Tuesday "I caught a white wing dove. They have a long beak.
And
blue, azure (redundant) eyelids.
Cotton Fields Tucson 8/4/1971
No
Notes Entered
Cotton Fields Safford Arizona
8/8/1971
I remember Safford and I remember that in the cotton fields
there
was a lot of pottery that was very interesting. I also remember
seeing
the rufous many times elsewhere, like to the west, in Arizona
during my
job as a cotton rouger. I recall them so very well and have often
commented that they looked like flaming flourescent orange puffs
of
yarn as they raced by. Their screaming red throats accented their
bright, rufous feathers.
Mesa Sewer Flats 8/15/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Mesa Sewer Flats 8/16/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Grand Canyon 08/17/1971
Tuesday I
also write that I saw "some ridiculous blackbird? Orange-yellow
head
and chest." bats and a crow and the next morning, 18th saw a funny
little gnatcatcher? and green hummingbird.
Mesa Sewer Flats 8/27/1971
"27th of
August Birthday Black neck stilts. Steve got hot and thirsty
remember? Mesa Sewer flats I'm 20 years old."
Flagstaff Area 09/09/1971
Lake Mary 9/9/1971
Flagstaff Area 09/17/1971
Sharp-shinned Hawk,09/17/1971,Flagstaff Area,This is
oustside of
Flagstaff actually. There were two posts perhaps fifty feet
apart
and they flew from one to the other. There appeared to be the
remains
of their prey on the posts. Not any snow on the
mountain.
Flagstaff Area 09/26/1971
Sunday That's all except we went to the Northern
Arizona Museum and saw lots of STUFFED Birds. The next sunday we
went
to Oak Creek and found a dead Redtail, eaten except for feathers
and
one foot. P.S. it turned out to be a turkey!!
Oak Creek Canyon 10/03/1971 On
September 26 I wrote that we saw a mountain bluebird and "The next
sunday we went to Oak Creek and found a dead Redtail, eaten except
for
feathers and one foot. P.S. it turned out to be a turkey!!"
Flagstaff Area 10/09/1971
Saturday We looked out the window of Saga Foods
cafeteria
and beheld some CEDAR WAXWINGS. They ate from a berry tree (bush)
round, blue-black berries (big ones). Then they ate some red
berries
from a neighboring bush. Some of these waxwings were immature and
I
think there were only 3 or 4 of them in all. They allowed us to
get
within inches of them. Later the same day and outside of town, we
saw a
redtail hawk, a marsh hawk, steller's jay and gray fllycatcher and
what
appeared to be a winter audubon's warlber. This was the same place
as
page # 31" (record # 397)
Flagstaff Area 10/14/1971 On
April
10, 2003, I write: "As I recall it was JEFF and I who saw these
birds
and they were new to us. We looked in the book and identified
them.
They came in snipping in snicking groups in the bark of the pine
trees." I WRITE NOW ON OCTOBER 20, 2004 THAT WE DISCOVERED THESE
BIRDS
ALL ON OUR OWN AND IT WAS A BIG BIG DAY. ah, 7_2006 I wanted to
say we
were out in the woods I think on one of those roads to the left as
you
drive toward the grand canyon.
Flagstaff Area 10/18/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Old Main 10/18/1971 No Notes
Entered
2015 Sierra Vista 10/23/1971
All
day we saw mourning doves and at breakfast this morning I saw a
red
shafted flicker who flew up into the palm tree.
Headlight Pond 10/23/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Phoenix Sewer Flats 10/23/1971
"Saturday A Mild Day" I'm not sure whether this place
exists anymore. Once we went there and there were many many many
dead
ducks. Botulism? Was this the time Dad pointed out my first water
pipit?It was on a fence, which is rather unusual for them.
2015 Sierra Vista 10/24/1971
This
is just before the mesa sewer flats trip because I write "earlier
I saw
a redshafted flicker and two gila woodperkers (at home)" (so I
guess
you check out the sewer flats on this date to see more. Tom, year
2002.)
Mesa Sewer Flats 10/24/1971
Sunny
with clouds. The drawing in my notebook shows the sun peeking out
from
behind a cloud. It reads " I was alone with a small bottle of
booze.
saw the heron Maw+paw+steve came It rained but they saw the
heron
and shoveler duck." It is now the year 2002 and I remember a poem
I
wrote about this.
Flagstaff Area 11/07/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Lake Mary 11/20/1971 Went
fishing
at Lake Mary and saw crows. Then, we (Sid and I) went to a little
shallow lake in a meadow. I believe it was called Marshall Lake.
We
fell through the ice. It was extremely fun. (See Marshall Lake at
the
same date to see birds.)
Marshall Lake 11/20/1971 Went
fishing at Lake Mary and saw crows. Then, we (Sid and I) went to a
little shallow lake in a meadow. I believe it was called Marshall
Lake.
We fell through the ice. It was extremely
fun.
Oak Creek Canyon 11/21/1971
Caught
a sucker-like fish on the little cobra. Jeff said he saw a brown
towhee
and he also saw a bridled titmouse. Saw both gray headed and
oregon
races. ALSO FOR OAK CREEK SEE 9/26/71 FOR FLAGSTAFF AREA.
Verde River 11/27/1971 No
Notes
Entered
2015 Sierra Vista 12/15/1971
Date
approximate."Tempe""Home for Christmas '71 out by the irrigation
ditch
I saw..."
Phoenix Zoo 12/18/1971 Was
this the
trip when the Canada goose bit me?
Verde River 12/24/1971
"Christmas
Eve Day" On the way home, we saw a sparrow hawk, the most common
North
American falcon (and the smallest). It is sometimes called the
kestrel.
Cardinals too.
Headlight Pond 12/30/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Phoenix Zoo 12/30/1971 No
Notes
Entered
Pima Canyon 12/30/1971 Date
approximate: "Before the New Year, we went to the zoo and saw many
birds. Out at headlight pond I saw many coots and one common
galinule.""Also we went to South Mountain and saw a rock wren."
We saw five species of hummers and I was happy to be reaquainted
with
the rufous hummingbird again. It was an old friend from my youth
when I
rouged cotton in the fields from Wickenburg to Safford. I have
dates
for him as far back as August of 1971. I didn't get to see the
blue-throated hummingbird, however, which my computer tells me I
had
seen once on May 27, 1973, but I didn't mind; I had had enough
bird
watching for the day.
