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ALL 73 RECORDS

1. Yellow-headed Blackbird    4/17/1971    Headlight Pond
2. Yellow-headed Blackbird    7/12/1971    Cotton Fields Salome Arizona    "a score or two" "They're wonderful."
3. Yellow-headed Blackbird    7/13/1971    Cotton Fields Salome Arizona    "swell"
4. Yellow-headed Blackbird    1/22/1972    Mesa Sewer Flats
5. Yellow-headed Blackbird    03/04/1972    2015 Sierra Vista
6. Yellow-headed Blackbird    6/19/1972    Parker Arizona    on the way
7. Yellow-headed Blackbird    6/21/1972    Parker Arizona    Actually Boyer saw these. We also found a mummified frog.
8. Yellow-headed Blackbird    06/10/1987    Generic Highway    Near Huron South Dakota
9. Yellow-headed Blackbird    5/25/1997    Elliot and Cooper Roads
10. Yellow-headed Blackbird    3/28/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
11. Yellow-headed Blackbird    4/6/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads    Male in the reeds.
12. Yellow-headed Blackbird    4/7/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads    In the tree in the main pond -- the left tree.
13. Yellow-headed Blackbird    4/11/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads    South field. Female.
14. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/19/1998    Generic Place in Chandler    One male flew over at McQueen and Gilbert or thereabouts.
15. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/19/1998    Ocotillo and Gilbert Roads    One male flew over at McQueen and Gilbert or thereabouts.
16. Yellow-headed Blackbird    5/3/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
17. Yellow-headed Blackbird    8/16/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
18. Yellow-headed Blackbird    8/30/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
19. Yellow-headed Blackbird    9/5/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
20. Yellow-headed Blackbird    9/6/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
21. Yellow-headed Blackbird    9/14/1998    2125 North Villas Lane    These were flying by at the end of Villas Lane when I drove out. Males and females and everything. What a flock. I have other sightings oif this bird at my house some recently right out of my back yard. They whirled in the wind but I don't seem to have  recorded them.
22. Yellow-headed Blackbird    09/21/1998    2125 North Villas Lane    From my journal: Saw yellow-headed blackbirds flying over my house a couple of days ago.
23. Yellow-headed Blackbird    1/18/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
24. Yellow-headed Blackbird    3/18/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
25. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/18/1999    Generic Place Anywhere    People sporting in the fecal rush of waters. These birds had awful croaking voices.
26. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/3/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
27. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/3/1999    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
28. Yellow-headed Blackbird    3/4/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads    HUGE flock on the island.
29. Yellow-headed Blackbird    5/17/2000    Estero Morua    By the little boat ramp in the sea cucumber bushes.
30. Yellow-headed Blackbird    9/29/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads    a whole flock of them flying by.ACTUALLY JUST NEAR ELLIOT AND COOPER. I WAS DRIVING BY ON THE WAY BACK FROM GIVING STEVE A RIDE TO WORK.  the 29 is a guess
31. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/15/2001    McQueen and Elliot Roads
32. Yellow-headed Blackbird    5/18/2001    Salton Sea    Oh did I almost get a great photo of this one sitting in the reeds overlooking the fetid waters.
33. Yellow-headed Blackbird    03/15/2002    Generic Highway    On the way home I saw strings of blackbirds flying northwest. I looked through my binocs and saw that many were male yellow-headed blackbirds. Wow.
34. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/01/2002    2125 North Villas Lane    This bird was alone. It was a male flying very high. Very colorful.
35. Yellow-headed Blackbird    09/21/2002    El Mirage Pond    In the reeds like in the book. Males and females. Lots of them.
36. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/18/2002    Arizona State University    This was in front of the Timber Wolf Pub. The blackbirds are flying west again. I think I saw Brewer's too. I stood out in front. It was a lot of fun.
37. Brown-headed Cowbird    10/19/2002    Generic Highway    By 101 and 202 at McDowell in a field with Yellow-headed Blackbirds.
38. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/19/2002    Generic Highway    Over by 202 and 101 by McDowell in a field. Males and females.
39. Yellow-headed Blackbird    03/23/2003    Generic Place Anywhere    Germaine and Dobson Roads. Zillions of males. What a sight. They boiled up around me in the field on the southwest corner.
40. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/25/2003    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
41. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/26/2003    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
42. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/11/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
43. Yellow-headed Blackbird    05/01/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads    A female flying up over Neely street and landing in the trees.
44. Yellow-headed Blackbird    07/11/2004    Park City
45. Yellow-headed Blackbird    08/11/2004    Ocotillo and Gilbert Roads    Actually this was just north of the site. in the stockyard. The Male yellowheads were on the cow manure in front of a cow lying there. The cow's face was right next to them.
46. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/09/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads    Flying high above the canal road. A male with flashing white wing patches and yellow head.
47. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/20/2004    Arizona State University    Flying west at Apache and Rural. Check out the timberwolf pub for similar sightings under Arizona State University. SAME DATE ALMOST but 2 years earlier.
48. Yellow-headed Blackbird    07/31/2005    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads    Male and female. Just one or two in each huge flock of blackbirds. Out by the heron gate and elsewhere. Veddy noice.
49. Yellow-headed Blackbird    08/01/2005    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
50. Yellow-headed Blackbird    08/10/2005    Lake Mary
51. Yellow-headed Blackbird    08/27/2005    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
52. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/29/2006    Generic Place Anywhere    MYSTERIOUS STOCK TANK
53. Yellow-headed Blackbird    12/25/2006    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
54. Yellow-headed Blackbird    12/27/2006    Generic Place Anywhere    WILLIS ROAD Zillions in the cottonwood tree. They flew across the street and landed in a lot. A RT hawk scared them.  Spectack! Willis Road has the Estrellas visible down to the west and the mountain you see is my favorite that looks like a volcano.
55. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/01/2007    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
56. Yellow-headed Blackbird    01/05/2008    Generic Place Anywhere    Some dairy? cow farm on the way back from Higley and Ocotillo Roads. In a field there.
57. Yellow-headed Blackbird    05/30/2008    Marshall Lake
58. Yellow-headed Blackbird    08/30/2008    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
59. Yellow-headed Blackbird    04/18/2009    Tucson Arizona    Actually the 19th. At that pond area down Prinze Road where Jeff and I had gone. With Sally.
60. Yellow-headed Blackbird    05/27/2009    Lake Mary    LOWER LAKE MARY
61. Yellow-headed Blackbird    5/2/2010    Higley and Ocotillo Roads    Female alone. Saw her twice.
62. Yellow-headed Blackbird    9/24/2010    Elliot and Cooper Roads    BIG MALE FLYING NORTH OVER THE FIRE STATION ALL ALONE.
63. Generic Blackbird    12/12/2010    Elliot and Cooper Roads    flying over. I thought I saw one group with YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS.
64. Yellow-headed Blackbird    12/27/2011    Elliot and Cooper Roads    Ah! This was nice. The flocks were coming every couple of minutes and since these various species of BB are not such big birds they always were upon you before you knew it. Flying almost north rather than WNW.
65. Yellow-headed Blackbird    3/23/2013    Elliot and Cooper Roads    Two were in very nice plumage.
66. Yellow-headed Blackbird    12/10/2013    Elliot and Cooper Roads    Waves of blackbirds flying Northwest. Saw at least one big old Yallerhead.
67. Yellow-headed Blackbird    6/28/2014    Sun Lakes    Two flew over the South Reservation field. One was a male. Very brightly colored and most excellent.
68. Yellow-headed Blackbird    9/23/2018    Sun Lakes    Lots of them flying by in the morning over the golf course.
69. Yellow-headed Blackbird    9/22/2019    Sun Lakes    Rez Pond
70. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/1/2019    Sun Lakes    Females with endless cowbirds at Rez Pond
71. Yellow-headed Blackbird    10/4/2019    Sun Lakes    I think. They looked like little cowbirds with yellow breasts. With cowbirds. Rez Pond.
72. Yellow-headed Blackbird    6/19/2020    Sun Lakes    Big male and some females flying over Mysterious Puddle
73. Yellow-headed Blackbird    5/17/2022    Elliot and Cooper Roads    A female in the tree to the right from the parking lot.

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