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Cole 10/11/2022 I thought Jan and I went to Pima Canyon rather recently. I looked it up. MORE THAN TEN YEARS HAVE RIDDEN AWAY ON THE WIND. Very depressing. I'll be 81 if I last that long again: Pima Canyon 9/18/2012 Gosh, I clean forgot to enter this one. Well, I'm putting it in now. Jan and I went. I didn't bring quite enough water and Jan wanted to keep hiking so we went clean up the arroyo and back on the National Trail I guess it was. No snakes. |
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CHAPTER
ONE
THE SANDS OF PIMA ARROYO Roads
from the Sky—Sand—The Mysterious
Pyramid—Stone Houses—Desert
Varnish—Exfoliation—Teddy Bear Cholla—City
Lights—The Mine—Relics—Mutt Mitts—Broken
Glass—“Wonderlust”—The Water
Tank—Petroglyphs—Rattlers—Hot
Hikes—Birds—The Ring of Stones—Wash
Walking—Ojo de Awa—Still Green Are My
Memories
 Steve with "Ojo de Awa" scrawling which is gone now. The rock broke off. Pima Canyon, South Mountain January 1986
 
javelina time Nov 2, 2003.jpg  South Mountain Steve Tom Dits March 16 2022 bench like Javelina picture.jpg 
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Pima Canyon 02/01/2003 The
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated
on re-entry over Texas today.  Pima Canyon Noodles Sonny Dits Steve Space Shuttle Columbia Exploded.jpg
 Javelina Sign Post 11_2_2003.jpg  Pima Canyon Phoenix Atheist Hike.jpg There
is a mountain south of Phoenix, an exfoliating
batholith in a horse latitude, rain shadow
desert as hot as any one might find in the
world. Its color is brownish and its hills roll
off into the distance with little to recommend
them to the casual eye. The name of the mountain
is simply South Mountain, and it is the biggest
city park in the nation.
In 1958, Tempe, Arizona, was bordered by desert, and to the southwest of that desert was the town of Guadalupe, a Yaqui community of contrasting austerity set as is was against the trim, modern city next door. People didn't starve there, but living with no front door on the house was not too far from the norm, and the roofs of many homes were just of chicken-coop tin. The town was a Mexican town, just as Mexican as any south of the border. My parents used to drive us through Guadalupe to go to South Mountain's Pima Canyon, and they used to do this often.   Dad Jeff 1987 Pima Canyon.jpg Tom June 23, 2020 Pima Canyon.jpg
If you have
ever flown in a plane over Mexico, you are
immediately struck by the very different
appearance of the cities from the air as
compared to those north of the border, and if
you look hard enough, you will know the reason:
the roads below are unpaved. So it was with
Guadalupe. The streets were made of sand. It
wasn't a finely winnowed powder, but a
thick-and-thin-grained granite sand devoid of
the glittering mica you might find in other
parts of the state. The sand flowed down the
streets just as it flowed down the arroyos that
ran through the hills. It was puffy and dusty
and light in color like a sand that had given up
the dream of ever really being white. It
crunched under the station wagon tires. In the
summer, the sand drank up any drop of water
until every plant in the town was wilted and
seared—or nearly every; here and there a house
had a sprinkler going to water a bit of green
Bermuda. And a few had the red-blooming
bougainvillea, the one plant that would stand
stubbornly even when strangled of water. But the
rest of the place was sand.
It was through a different country and a
different culture that we used to drive when we
went down Avenida del Yaqui. At one crossroads,
there on the avenue, someone had built a cement
pyramid eight feet high. It was the same color as
the sand. The pyramid always made its impression
upon me as we drove by it, but this was not the
place we would turn to drive to Pima Canyon. We
made a turn where today no turn exists, and we
went on a road that was then much longer than it
is today. A new city covers much of the road now,
but fifty years ago, you took some time to get to
the end, where the roofless, mysterious stone
houses stood and the arroyo made its turn through
the canyon.I was a child then, and I would look through the station wagon windows and take in the scenes that somehow shocked and haunted me as we moved deeper into the desert. More than any place I would ever see, South Mountain gave the impression of being very old. On its very face seemed to be painted the passing of time, and on it, too, I could imagine a kind of resignation to that passing. The still scenes of odd, table-shaped boulders and of gravelly stretches of colorless crystals were scenes of a land that had long since given up any resistance to the attrition of the years. The chips of granite were speckled like the retro living room curtains of the 1950s, and the boulders were covered with desert varnish, dark brownish, purplish.
Perhaps the exfoliation of the mountain's rounded boulders and giant slabs of granite further imparted the appearance of great age. It rains but rarely on South Mountain, and so the process was slow, but rainwater, when once it did come down, did what it still does there and everywhere else in the world: it combined with the ground's carbon dioxide and turned to carbonic acid. The acid leeched the feldspar out of the granite so that the crystals of quartz and ferro-magnesians fell about, and the feldspar, converted to clay, found itself blown in the wind to mix with the ever present sand. I didn't know the chemistry then, but I did know that the signs of ruin were everywhere I set my eyes. And there were the teddy bear cholla too, bright blond on the extremities, but dirty brown under the arms and nearly black up the stalk. There is no dustier, older-looking cactus in the world—and none, by the way, more murderous. Just a brush against it will bring a punishment no careless walker deserves. It was the true jumping cholla. The spiny clumps of cactus, however, did not need the idle touch of some passerby to break away; beneath each plant were piles of them for the coyotes to sidestep, bristling clumps that had fallen on their own. Some glinted with yellow spines, and some were nearly black with a burnt and disintegrated look. The teddy bear cholla was seen in bajadas, little forests that appeared to have grown in place by having been thrown all together at once down a hillside or across a level stretch of desert. Wherever they landed, they stuck, stopped in mid motion, frozen in place—the whole party of small, but anthropomorphic cacti a snapshot in time. Fifty years later, I would photograph a bajada there and type in the title field of iphoto: Dance of the Cholla.jpg. Tom June
23, 2020 Pima Canyon.jpg
We used to stop at the end of the road as
there was no way to drive any further. Then we
would climb the giant piles of boulders there. We
had a name for every special rock and every
tunneling crevice that coursed through the pile.
One long slab lying before the pile was eight feet high and fifty feet long. There was space beneath it and openings at both ends, so you could have crawled completely under the stone if not for the pack rats' having stuffed the hollow half full of cholla. Still, I would lie down to look completely under the stone to where I could see the sunlight at the other end. It was a frightening, claustrophobic scene, and I imagined myself for some reason having to make my way under the megalith to the opposite opening fifty feet away. Sometimes my parents allowed night to fall before we went home. We could hear coyotes and we always listened for a wild cat or a mountain lion though I don't remember if we ever heard either of them. The stars shone bright with the shadow of the mountain upon them and the glow of the capital city on the other side too weak in those days to smudge them away. On the drive back, if you looked to the east anywhere south of Guadalupe, there were no lights at all.  pimacanyon5.jpg In our youth, although we were brimming with energy, that energy was not boundless; it had very strict restrictions that governed its use: to wit, it could only be used in play. A simple walk to the mine was looked upon by the puerile body and soul as drudgery no less painful than the almost physically incapacitating encumbrance of taking out the trash. We preferred climbing the rocks and running ourselves to exhaustion to the toil of walking up Pima Arroyo. We'd squeeze ourselves through the tunneling crevices in the mountain of stones or slide a thousand times over a favorite granite ridge into the arroyo. Once, I slid down the ridge so many times that I found that I had simply worn the seat from my pants, and I was sick with mortification with no change of clothes in the midst of the family's picnic guests.   south mountain pima canyon fake petroglyphs.jpg Ring of Stones TRIPS RECORDED TO PIMA CANYON I STARTED IN 1959 BUT DON'T HAVE THEM ALL
RECORDED. BOO HOO. LET'S SAY I WENT EVERY THREE
MONTHS WHICH IS PRETTY FREQUENT. I HAVE ONLY 160
TRIPS RECORDED BUT THAT WOULD BE 4 a YEAR FOR
FORTY YEARS!!!
Home Tom Birds
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PIMA CANYON RECORDS-- A FEW ARE ONES IN DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE PIMA CANYON IS MENTIONED IN A BIRD NOTE, BUT THE DATA IS/ARE ALL HERE.
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The stone houses were the stopping place of many who came to Pima Canyon, and there by the pile of stones and the granite ridge were the signs of these visitors. Most everywhere you looked were the brown shards of broken beer bottles and the ground was scattered thick with spent .22 shells. The whole area glinted Budweiser brown. Even in the 1980s, bottle breaking and shooting were common at the end of the road, but sometime later, there was a drastic change. The park became more carefully managed, and if you found a piece of glass, it was a relic of the past—just as are the now rare, old rusted beer cans with the triangular church key punch holes. When I find one out in the desert, I look upon it with a kind of joy and treat it as an antique to leave in place as part of Arizona's legacy. I find such treasures still—the old miner's bean can with a peeled back top or a sardine can rusted for a hundred years lying under a bush with its lid rolled neatly around the key that has been carefully tucked inside. And occasionally I find a far more ancient item like a Hohokam chipping stone made of basalt. How the city could have rid the area of all of those bullet shells and broken bottles is a mystery to me. I think of Darwin's study on earthworms and how long it took them to bury the flints in his field. Even without any earthworms in the desert to cover the pieces of broken bottle, the entire park is today surprisingly glass free, and the trails, though walked by people in the hundreds, show almost no sign of litter. In recent years, there has been a change of mindset and culture; the hikers of today simply pack out what they pack in. The only occasional exception is the fault of the dog owners. The city provides bags for dog dew called "Mutt Mitts," and people pack these bags in. Unfortunately, once used for their intended purpose, they are not especially pleasing to pack out, and so you will sometimes see one lying plump on the side of a road or trail where it has been left by an insufficiently principled and less than stalwart walker. Let me tell you of a littering incident. I was making a cross-country expedition in a remote area of the park when I saw that someone had left a movie ticket on the ground. As most people would, I reflected that the person should have been more careful with such trash. I looked at the ticket and it said, "Fahrenheit 911, June 26, 2004." When I got home, on a hunch I searched Pima Canyon in my bird database. There, I found a page for the same date with a note about the matinee I had gone to just before the hike. It was I who had been the litterer. It goes to show why I have the database. Consider my visit to the dentist the other day. The technician tried to convince me that I was having my sixth crown. "But I only have two right now," I protested." She got out a mirror and we looked in my mouth and counted five. There is no way for the human mind to track all of these crowns or hikes—or trips even just to one place like Pima Canyon. Yet the human soul (or at least mine) yearns to know how many hikes there have been and when they were. Paper records are good, but they don't compare to the database—as it can be searched in a wink—and as far as the bird list goes, I, myself, can sort any specific finch from all of the flocks of sparrows and finches I have ever seen at Pima Canyon, anywhere else, or everywhere else. The computer age that I scoffed at as a twenty-year-old has changed life for the better. For me, a large part of life used to be a dreary journey of what I call "unrequited wonder lust." In the past, you might wish to check where and when you went and be stymied by a yard-high stack of moldy notebooks. Coming home from a hike when the wonder lust hit you, you would not perhaps have the energy to leaf through them all to check for what you wanted to know unless your reference system was particularly well thought-out. And with regard to other facts, you may have wished to learn, there was much you would have trouble finding even in a library. Remember those old rocket radios? They were simple crystal radios you could buy for a dollar fifty. You pulled the nose cone up to change channels, and there was an alligator clip to hook to a window screen or other piece of metal as an antennae. In the 80s I could only imagine what they used to look like and wished I could see one again. Today, not only can I see a picture of one, I can buy one in its original box on Ebay. In 1968, the Smothers Brothers read a poem on their show, and for years I wanted to have a copy, but I would have had to ask the librarian if she remembered it—which was unlikely, and they wouldn't have a copy anyway. Now I Google it. Life is abundant. But my trips to Pima Canyon are not on the internet; they're on my intranet and I wonder no more about anything that has happened. A few years ago, I was surfing my intranet and found that I had no record for a trip to Pima Canyon in the year 2000. I remembered that I had hurt my leg bird watching on Kentucky Derby Day around the year 2000 at Elliot and Cooper Roads. I knew that it took a year to heal, and so for a while, my reality was that my missed trips to the canyon were because of my leg. In subsequent surfing, I found that I hurt my leg in 2001. Later, when I integrated my journal and bird database, I happened to find a year 2000 trip that was not in the bird database, so I took the opportunity to put it in there where it belonged with no bird sighting associated with it. There seems to be just one trip in 2000. I don't know why that is, but I do know it isn't because of my leg. In the spring of 2004, I stepped down from my eight-year position as the Associate Director of the program for which I worked at Arizona State University. I had longed for a summer vacation for many years and was able to get six weeks off before I returned to the teaching faculty. I did not waste the vacation. Every day for that time, I would get up and work on a grammar book and software project of mine. And after the morning's work, I would head to South Mountain and hike up the arroyo. A click or two in my database shows that I went twenty-eight times to the canyon in June, July, and August: SUMMER 2004 TRIPS TO PIMA CANYON 1. Pima Canyon,06/05/2004,Birds: 7,Total ever: 471 2. Pima Canyon,06/06/2004,Birds: 10,Total ever: 481 3. Pima Canyon,06/13/2004,Birds: 7,Total ever: 488 4. Pima Canyon,06/19/2004,Birds: 8,Total ever: 496 5. Pima Canyon,06/20/2004,Birds: 16,Total ever: 512 6. Pima Canyon,06/26/2004,Birds: 6,Total ever: 518 7. Pima Canyon,06/27/2004,Birds: 17,Total ever: 535 8. Pima Canyon,07/01/2004,Birds: 9,Total ever: 544 9. Pima Canyon,07/02/2004,Birds: 10,Total ever: 554 10. Pima Canyon,07/03/2004,Birds: 6,Total ever: 560 11. Pima Canyon,07/04/2004,Birds: 7,Total ever: 567 12. Pima Canyon,07/05/2004,Birds: 5,Total ever: 572 13. Pima Canyon,07/06/2004,Birds: 8,Total ever: 580 14. Pima Canyon,07/08/2004,Birds: 6,Total ever: 586 15. Pima Canyon,07/15/2004,Birds: 5,Total ever: 591 16. Pima Canyon,07/19/2004,Birds: 5,Total ever: 596 17. Pima Canyon,07/21/2004,Birds: 6,Total ever: 602 18. Pima Canyon,07/22/2004,Birds: 5,Total ever: 607 19. Pima Canyon,07/27/2004,Birds: 4,Total ever: 611 20. Pima Canyon,07/28/2004,Birds: 4,Total ever: 615 21. Pima Canyon,07/30/2004,Birds: 3,Total ever: 618 22. Pima Canyon,07/31/2004,Birds: 5,Total ever: 623 23. Pima Canyon,08/01/2004,Birds: 2,Total ever: 625 24. Pima Canyon,08/02/2004,Birds: 2,Total ever: 627 25. Pima Canyon,08/03/2004,Birds: 3,Total ever: 630 26. Pima Canyon,08/11/2004,Birds: 3,Total ever: 633 27. Pima Canyon,08/13/2004,Birds: 3,Total ever: 636 28. Pima Canyon,08/29/2004,Birds: 5,Total ever: 641 On most of these days, I would walk up to the water tank and back on the stone road. The water tank drained into a small, square cement reservoir that held water for thirsty javelinas, coyotes, and other desert animals. I call the top stone that overlooks the arroyo there "Windy Rock" as there always seems to be a cool, welcome breeze when you climb up and stand on it. Below, the arroyo is wired off, and signs are posted that read "Wildlife Area"—but the real reason I expect is to protect the petroglyphs and corn grinding holes on the rock below. One petroglyph, a humanoid stick figure, is said to be cut across by a ray of sunlight at the winter solstice. The figure seems to be saluting, but my brother gave a better interpretation of the figure. "He's shading his eyes from the winter sun," he said. Occasionally, a coyote would walk by and look at me bored and unsociable. He would walk out of the wash and up into the desert to avoid me. But there were dangerous animals there too; to be specific: rattlesnakes. In the heat of the summer, they are not likely out and about, unless they are in a cool patch of shade under a bush, but when spring comes and they come out of hibernation, they can be anywhere. Of the four kinds that I have seen there, the most common is especially dangerous: the tiger rattler. It has a mixture of a cobra-like neurotoxin and the standard rattler's flesh-eating enzyme. This cocktail of poisons is something I want no part of. The weather on these summer hikes was exceedingly hot, but that was the reason I went. In the summer, the park is deserted before noon; it just gets too hot for the average hiker. There are, however, hot hikers, and I am one of them. My college roommate, some years ago had taken up hiking because he had grown rather overweight and needed to exercise, so I took to joining him on various desert hikes. When the season turned cooler, we both agreed that we missed the hot weather's challenge, the sweaty workout, and the cool, sparkling drinks we brought along. Afterwards, I noticed that when I hiked in the blazing heat of an Arizona summer day, I would find, say, a middle-aged woman sitting on the sand in Pima Arroyo when it was 114° in the shade. Or I would climb into "the tunnel," a natural rock formation three miles in, and find that a happy hiker had beat me there and was already more versed than I in the practice of hot hiking. "Everybody's gone by eleven o'clock in the summer, and you've got the place to yourself." he said. I had to agree with him. Who wants to go anywhere in nature when there are a lot of people around—especially in a place where you are so grandfathered in that sometimes you can't help but feel that the rest of the world is trespassing? The idea of hot hiking is not to suffer but to beat the heat. I carry bottles of fizzy, flavored water and a platypus bottle filled with ice water. They say that in times of crisis, one must never waste water by doing anything with it other than drinking it, but on my hikes I have plenty of fizzy water, and if I feel hot, I take the icy platypus water and pour it over my head. When you're super hydrated from the fizzy water and practically freezing to death at the same time, you're in more danger of catching a cold than dying of heatstroke. I admit to having come close to danger when I decided to climb a steep trail in the heat. Working up a sweat and overheating from strenuous exercise is not a good idea, and I'm extra careful today; on February 11, 2006, I took a group of Korean scholars to Old Tucson Studios, and one of them got heat stroke watching the gunfights in the street. It was only 85 degrees, and I thought she would die. In the heat of the summer, the walk up Pima Arroyo is quiet and still. Mourning doves, seemingly unaffected by the temperature, walk quietly in the shade under the creosote bushes. When you approach too close, they take to flight, but even the usual whistling sound of their wings on takeoff seems to have been almost silenced. I hesitate to say this is because of the superheated air. Passenger jets pass, but they are still at good altitude and rarely heard. Only birds regularly break the silence of the hot hike. You will occasionally hear the chish! chish! chish! chish! of the giant cactus wren. Around one of the bends in the wash is "Cactus Wren Alley." Whenever I hike with a guest, I tell them what bird we will expect to see there by the turn in the arroyo with the steep cliffs on one side—and we see exactly that. Not just one, but rarely fewer than three at once. The scolding cry of the black-tailed gnatcatcher, a tiny, intrepid bird of the desert and the bell-like call of the black-throated sparrow are also heard. Because of their names and their presence there, I named one area of the arroyo "the BT Cliffs." I always make a silent approach when I seen the cliffs, as not only the two BTs like the cool, shady, brushy bluffs there but also the gilded flicker and a half dozen other species. And you may see all of them there at once. The road back to the car is downhill. One doesn't notice the slight uphill climb up the wash, but this combined with the heavy, tiring sand makes the first half of the hike harder. There's more cooling wind on the road too, although there is no shade at all. A quarter mile from the parking lot is a ring of stones in the middle of the road. Fifty years ago, I would look ahead of the car to see it, and today I do much the same as I walk—only it is barely visible now. The stones are buried, and their tops are flush with the surface of the road. As do all rings of stone, they foster in me a sense of mysticism. Who put the ring of stones there? What was it? A campfire? Just for fun, I have taken to doing a kind of war dance on the stones before I go any farther. Sometimes I stuff a bottle of Boston Lager at the bottom of the pack in an ice-filled ziplock bag, and I drink it on the ring of stones as part of the ritual. The trip to the water tank doesn't even get you as far as the stone houses, but there are endless miles of trails that lead you away from the more populated, scarred areas near the road: Mormon Trail, National Trail, and others that take you to Fat Man's Pass, Hidden Valley, the Tunnel, and other places. On days when my friends and I plan a miles-long hike, we often skip the trails for the first half of the walk and continue up Pima Arroyo and come back on the trails. Few people do this wash walking, so you've got it to yourself even early in the day. And it is as wild and pristine as you could imagine a place so close to the city. The saguaros are tall and stately there, and there is almost no sign of man. Painted letters on one cliff used to read: Ojo de Awa, misspelled Spanish for "well." An arrow pointed to a depression in the sandy ground below. A few years ago, that part of the cliff fell off, and the words can no longer be read. I'm sure I have a picture somewhere of it—but the picture was not digital, and so I will have to rumble through some old boxes if I ever get the urge to see it again. When I go up the arroyo, I always climb the dry falls where the granite is fluted as though carved by a sculptor to make way for the occasional rush of a flash flood's water. And then I walk a little farther and find myself in Hidden Valley not far from Fat Man's Pass and the Tunnel. Sometimes I skip the arroyo entirely and take a trail clear to the top and walk along the long ridges on the crest of the mountain with the cheerful view of Phoenix below. There are other places that I know as well: Estero de Morua, Mexico, for example, or our hacienda at the foot of Mount Humphrey's. Many, too, were the days that I spent on the shores of Minnesota's pristine Lake Itasca, and still green are the memories of my summers there. But more often now I find myself thinking about South Mountain and the sands of Pima Arroyo. I see the mountain when I walk out of my front gate, when I go to the store, and when I drive home from work. I've paid off my house now, and there is little reason to relocate when I retire; I could hardly expect to find a place to live where I could find anything with the uniqueness of the Sonoran Desert so close at hand or a place that captured my imagination in the way it does. I still travel back to Mexico and Minnesota and even more often drive up to stay at our acres at the foot of Mount Humphrey's. But my everyday life is likely to be forever based in this placid, convenient Valley suburb, and South Mountain is a good thing to always have so close-by. |
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Picture taken June 23, 2020
I looked up these people on the plaque and they were all brutally murdered in 1997 in D.C. It was horrible.
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RECORDED TRIPS But zillions missing that weren't recorded from 1958 to December,30,1971 1. 12/30/1971 Pima Canyon 2. 9/29/1985 Pima Canyon 3. 9/20/1987 Pima Canyon 4. 11/22/1987 Pima Canyon 5. 01/29/1990 Pima Canyon 6. 08/27/1995 Pima Canyon 7. 05/29/1997 Pima Canyon 8. 08/24/1997 Pima Canyon 9. 12/30/1997 Pima Canyon 10. 1/8/1998 Pima Canyon 11. 1/11/1998 Pima Canyon 12. 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon 13. 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon 14. 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon 15. 10/04/1998 Pima Canyon 16. 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon 17. 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon 18. 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon 19. 03/05/2000 Pima Canyon 20. 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon 21. 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon 22. 07/21/2001 Pima Canyon 23. 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon 24. 09/23/2001 Pima Canyon 25. 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon 26. 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon 27. 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon 28. 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon 29. 07/21/2002 Pima Canyon 30. 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon 31. 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon 32. 08/09/2002 Pima Canyon 33. 09/08/2002 Pima Canyon 34. 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon 35. 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon 36. 02/01/2003 Pima Canyon 37. 04/13/2003 Pima Canyon 38. 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon 39. 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon 40. 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon 41. 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon 42. 06/01/2003 Pima Canyon 43. 06/15/2003 Pima Canyon 44. 06/28/2003 Pima Canyon 45. 07/11/2003 Pima Canyon 46. 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon 47. 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon 48. 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon 49. 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon 50. 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon 51. 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon 52. 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon 53. 12/07/2003 Pima Canyon 54. 12/28/2003 Pima Canyon 55. 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon 56. 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon 57. 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon 58. 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon 59. 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon 60. 05/31/2004 Pima Canyon 61. 06/05/2004 Pima Canyon 62. 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon 63. 06/13/2004 Pima Canyon 64. 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon 65. 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon 66. 06/26/2004 Pima Canyon 67. 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon 68. 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon 69. 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon 70. 07/03/2004 Pima Canyon 71. 07/04/2004 Pima Canyon 72. 07/05/2004 Pima Canyon 73. 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon 74. 07/08/2004 Pima Canyon 75. 07/15/2004 Pima Canyon 76. 07/19/2004 Pima Canyon 77. 07/21/2004 Pima Canyon 78. 07/22/2004 Pima Canyon 79. 07/27/2004 Pima Canyon 80. 07/28/2004 Pima Canyon 81. 07/30/2004 Pima Canyon 82. 07/31/2004 Pima Canyon 83. 08/01/2004 Pima Canyon 84. 08/02/2004 Pima Canyon 85. 08/03/2004 Pima Canyon 86. 08/11/2004 Pima Canyon 87. 08/13/2004 Pima Canyon 88. 08/29/2004 Pima Canyon 89. 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon 90. 09/26/2004 Pima Canyon 91. 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon 92. 12/28/2004 Pima Canyon 93. 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon 94. 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon 95. 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon 96. 05/21/2005 Pima Canyon 97. 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon 98. 05/26/2005 Pima Canyon 99. 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon 100. 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon 101. 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon 102. 07/03/2005 Pima Canyon 103. 08/28/2005 Pima Canyon 104. 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon 105. 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon 106. 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon 107. 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon 108. 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon 109. 01/04/2006 Pima Canyon 110. 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon 111. 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon 112. 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon 113. 06/03/2006 Pima Canyon 114. 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon 115. 11/26/2006 Pima Canyon 116. 01/03/2007 Pima Canyon 117. 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon 118. 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon 119. 01/12/2008 Pima Canyon 120. 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon 121. 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon 122. 06/15/2008 Pima Canyon 123. 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon 124. 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon 125. 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon 126. 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon 127. 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon 128. 10/15/2009 Pima Canyon 129. 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon 130. 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon 131. 6/7/2010 Pima Canyon 132. 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon 133. 6/24/2010 Pima Canyon 134. 6/29/2010 Pima Canyon 135. 7/27/2010 Pima Canyon 136. 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon 137. 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon 138. 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon 139. 3/17/2011 Pima Canyon 140. 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon 141. 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon 142. 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon 143. 6/9/2011 Pima Canyon 144. 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon 145. 6/23/2011 Pima Canyon 146. 7/2/2011 Pima Canyon 147. 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon 148. 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon 149. 3/16/2013 Pima Canyon 150. 10/1/2013 Pima Canyon 151. 6/5/2016 Pima Canyon 152. 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon 153. 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon 154. 10/28/2019 Pima Canyon 155. 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon 156. 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon 157. 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon 158. 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon 159. 10/10/2021 Pima Canyon 160. 1/6/2022 Pima Canyon 161. 1/13/2022 Pima Canyon 162. 1/20/2022 Pima Canyon 163. 1/21/2022 Pima Canyon 164. 1/25/2022 Pima Canyon 165. 2/1/2022 Pima Canyon 166. 2/3/2022 Pima Canyon 167. 2/10/2022 Pima Canyon 168. 2/11/2022 Pima Canyon 169. 2/15/2022 Pima Canyon 170. 2/23/2022 Pima Canyon 171. 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon 172. 3/3/2022 Pima Canyon 173. 3/11/2022 Pima Canyon 174. 3/16/2022 Pima Canyon 175. 3/18/2022 Pima Canyon 176. 4/7/2022 Pima Canyon 177. 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon 178. 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon 179. 12/6/2022 Pima Canyon 180. 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon |
ALL BIRDS
SEEN AT PIMA CANYON
1477 birds
seen...2Rock Wren 12/30/1971 Pima Canyon Generic No Bird 9/29/1985 Pima Canyon Went to vino and bolillos hike. Got this from several BUTTONS Steve made. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 9/20/1987 Pima Canyon I call them blue-grays but I'm sure I'm wrong. It's in the yellow journal. Generic No Bird 11/22/1987 Pima Canyon Generic No Bird 01/29/1990 Pima Canyon Mom and Dad and I went to South Mountain. The road to Pima Canyon was blocked off. I found a scorpion and also found some mistletoe seeds stuck to a mesquite tree. Steve and Sherry met us at El Taquito. We drank a couple of beers. Generic No Bird 08/27/1995 Pima Canyon Generic No Bird 05/29/1997 Pima Canyon from the journal Generic No Bird 08/24/1997 Pima Canyon Date not exact but with a day or two I think. Generic No Bird 12/30/1997 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 1/8/1998 Pima Canyon It was chittering a lot. Canyon Wren 1/8/1998 Pima Canyon Zipping in and out of rocks. Curve-billed Thrasher 1/8/1998 Pima Canyon Really working on the ground with chunks of peat moss-looking junk. Orange eye. Also on a saguaro. Steve and I. Phainopepla 1/8/1998 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 1/11/1998 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 1/11/1998 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 1/11/1998 Pima Canyon Seen not heard. It darted in and out of rock cracks and bushes. Curve-billed Thrasher 1/11/1998 Pima Canyon Thrashing towhee-like in twigs on the ground. another seen doing the same. another atop a saguaro. Phainopepla 1/11/1998 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon TWICE we saw this. The song helped with the identification. Nice Bird. Very nice. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Saw these on several occasions. Cactus Wren 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon We SAW a lot of these rather than just heard them. They were perching on rocks like Meadowlarks on posts and singing. They have one to three buzzes after each song. Common Raven 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Lots of these. Sonny said they rolled like pigeons. They were flying over the canyons and hills. Curve-billed Thrasher 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon I also put in Bendire's thrasher because one of the CB thrashers was hanging out with a straight-billed lemon-eyed thrasher. I read later that the immature CB thrasher shares these characteristings with the CB so out he goes! Sonny and Steve and I went . We walked clear up to fat man's pass and we walked there for about five hours. Came back on the Mormon Trail. It started raining and thundering and the rain was quite cold. It stopped and we were warm again. European Starling 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Saw them in Saguaro burrows. Male and female. Saw them maybe three times. Great-tailed Grackle 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon House Finch 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon House Sparrow 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Lots of these. Rock Wren 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Rufous-crowned Sparrow 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Saw these more than once. Turkey Vulture 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Verdin 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Learning its call better now. White-throated Swift 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Oh what a sight these were. And they chittered. At least two. Two? I wonder what my notes mean. White-winged Dove 4/26/1998 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Black-headed Grosbeak 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Common Raven 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon House Finch 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon House Sparrow 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Northern Flicker 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon White-throated Swift 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 5/17/1998 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Brown-headed Cowbird 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon White-throated Swift 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/14/1998 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 10/04/1998 Pima Canyon saw these White-crowned Sparrow 10/04/1998 Pima Canyon "Saw white-crowned sparrows which I haven't seen for a while." Black-throated Sparrow 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Costa's Hummingbird 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon House Finch 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Ruby-crowned Kinglet 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 11/15/1998 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Greater Roadrunner 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon House Finch 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Tree Swallow 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Verdin 4/2/1999 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon Northern Flicker 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon Verdin 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon Yellow-rumped Warbler 11/21/1999 Pima Canyon Generic No Bird 03/05/2000 Pima Canyon from the journal Anna's Hummingbird 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon At the stone house with porno. Brewer's Sparrow 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Costa's Hummingbird 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Oh the violet! Curve-billed Thrasher 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Oh -- what a crested rufous crown! House Finch 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon House Sparrow 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Lesser Goldfinch 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Bright. Loggerhead Shrike 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Peregrine Falcon 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Dark sucker -- Flying like crazy. Rock Wren 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon Verdin 04/14/2001 Pima Canyon With mating call. Very conspicuous! Abert's Towhee 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon Brown-headed Cowbird 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon These cowbirds male and female would zoom over the desert. Cactus Wren 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon Costa's Hummingbird 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon twice. Gosh what violet. Curve-billed Thrasher 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon Greater Roadrunner 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon giant Roadrunner Red-tailed Hawk 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon Verdin 04/28/2001 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/21/2001 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 07/21/2001 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 07/21/2001 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 07/21/2001 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 07/21/2001 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon House Finch 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Verdin 09/09/2001 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 09/23/2001 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 09/23/2001 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 09/23/2001 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 09/23/2001 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon ah! Black-throated Sparrow 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon lots of these Dark-eyed Junco 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon oregon race Green-tailed Towhee 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon Excellent views and two at a time. House Finch 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon White-throated Sparrow 02/17/2002 Pima Canyon I added this feb 23 '13 because I saw in my journal that I missed him. Abert's Towhee 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon heard only Curve-billed Thrasher 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon House Finch 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Verdin 02/24/2002 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Dark-eyed Junco 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon House Finch 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Rufous-crowned Sparrow 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 03/01/2002 Pima Canyon Black-chinned Hummingbird 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Purple above white on the neck cinched this bird. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Heard Only Curve-billed Thrasher 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Heard only Gambel's Quail 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Northern Flicker 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Gilded Race Northern Mockingbird 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Verdin 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/29/2002 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/21/2002 Pima Canyon zillions of these -- zillions and babies too. Green-tailed Towhee 07/21/2002 Pima Canyon right when I arrived near the rest place. Mourning Dove 07/21/2002 Pima Canyon I would walk in the silent wash and they were always there waiting and they always flew away in the screaming heat. Turkey Vulture 07/21/2002 Pima Canyon yes I saw him Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon Tame. It was so late in the hot afternoon that there were few birds out. I was kind of lucky to see this one although I think there was another around that I was chasing but couldn't catch up with. Black-throated Sparrow 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon Finally saw one of these. The day was so hot that the birds had all sought shelter. Also saw one at the base of the horse trough and showed it to some dude. Cactus Wren 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon Over by a cliff. Quiet. Fairly tame. Curve-billed Thrasher 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon One of them sang like a mockingbird. Gambel's Quail 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon Only zillions again. Mourning Dove 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon Natch. Hot! Rock Dove 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon Strange to see him flying over the arroyo. Hotter than hell. He or another landed on a desert varnished rock and stood there. Turkey Vulture 07/22/2002 Pima Canyon Just one. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 07/28/2002 Pima Canyon Generic Bird 08/09/2002 Pima Canyon Actually all we saw were mourning doves -- but why waste a MD record when I can put this in? All the birds were gone. It was SO HOT! Abert's Towhee 09/08/2002 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 09/08/2002 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 09/08/2002 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 09/08/2002 Pima Canyon BIG Northern Flicker 09/08/2002 Pima Canyon GILDED FLICKER. GILDED RACE! EXCELLENT VIEW. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Super rufous under the tail. Plain face. No black mask. Gambel's Quail 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Generic Flycatcher 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Very green all of these and at least three seen. Northern Flicker 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Gilded race! Phainopepla 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 09/15/2002 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon very tame this time Black-throated Sparrow 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon slightly rufous head and very rufous under tail. no black mask. chest a bit striped. Curve-billed Thrasher 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon Dark-eyed Junco 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon oregon race Green-tailed Towhee 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon very rufous crown -- in fact I thought it was a ruby-crowned kinglet at first although it was big. almost a red crown. Rock Wren 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 01/05/2003 Pima Canyon Northern Flicker 02/01/2003 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 02/01/2003 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 02/01/2003 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 04/13/2003 Pima Canyon up in a tree Ash-throated Flycatcher 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon Saw him up the canyon and later a rattier one nearer the parking lot. Dusky Flycatcher 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon House Finch 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon Northern Flicker 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon GILDED FLICKER Townsend's Warbler 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon Verdin 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 05/11/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon House Finch 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon Oh god he had a swollen EYE. Huge. However he was frisky and active. Wilson's Warbler 05/21/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Dusky Flycatcher 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon just zillions of them Greater Roadrunner 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon House Sparrow 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon MacGillivray's Warbler 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon all under the trees everywhere Northern Mockingbird 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Verdin 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Wilson's Warbler 05/22/2003 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon These are definitely Canyons. They ain't Abert's. Curve-billed Thrasher 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon Northern Flicker 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon GILDED FLICKER! I'VE GOT TO SPLIT THESE. IT'S A SEPARATE SPECIES NOW!!! Turkey Vulture 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 05/25/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/01/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/01/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/15/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/15/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/15/2003 Pima Canyon Down CACTUS WREN ALLEY up Pima Arroyo. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/28/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 07/11/2003 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 07/11/2003 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 07/11/2003 Pima Canyon American Kestrel 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon He flew in the air with the wind holding him in one place for a long time and then he would zip up or down or left or right. Anna's Hummingbird 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon House Finch 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon MacGillivray's Warbler 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon female flying over Red-tailed Hawk 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon White-throated Swift 08/24/2003 Pima Canyon American Kestrel 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon House Finch 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Inca Dove 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Verdin 09/21/2003 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon American Kestrel 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Generic Blackbird 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Huge flock overhead. Perhaps varied species. Gila Woodpecker 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon House Finch 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Rock Dove 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Had a blue band that had a 41 as part of it. It was high up the ridge trail on a rock. A blue bar and nicely groomed. Perhaps a racing homer though smallish. Rock Wren 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon Both seen and heard. Verdin 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon White-throated Swift 09/28/2003 Pima Canyon appeared briefly on a high trail. Black-throated Sparrow 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon House Finch 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon Very tame some of them. Saw several. Sometimes they looked quite rufous below but when you got up close they weren't. I noted that they are the ones that sound like an Ash-throated Flycatcher. Turkey Vulture 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon Up above the parking lot when I arrived. Soaring. Verdin 10/05/2003 Pima Canyon Very yellow face indeed. Anna's Hummingbird 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Double-Crested Cormorant 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Yes in PIMA CANYON. Just five or six or so flying overhead. Gambel's Quail 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Saw him on the ground. Then he flew up. Also at the end of the Javelina trail he was on a fence or something. House Finch 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon Nice examples. Very white. Immatures were there too. At the end of the javelina trail there is a horse trough where they were drinking on the ground. Yellow-rumped Warbler 11/02/2003 Pima Canyon across Javelina canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon Generic Hawk 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon Coopers immature? At first I thought it was a Harris' hawk but then I thought it was a marsh hawk but a marsh hawk wouldn't like it there. Gila Woodpecker 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon Say's Phoebe 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon Yellow-rumped Warbler 11/16/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon Ruby-crowned Kinglet 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon hovered next to branches. Eye ring. Small. Verdin 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon Yellow-rumped Warbler 11/23/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 12/07/2003 Pima Canyon Two very active in a tree and a verdin messing around with them too. Canyon Towhee 12/07/2003 Pima Canyon At first we thought these two birds were green-tailed towhees. But they weren't! Gambel's Quail 12/07/2003 Pima Canyon I let Dits look through the binocs and he thought the birds were very impressive indeed. Lots of them down in a canyon. There seemed to be no end to their teeming numbers. Gila Woodpecker 12/07/2003 Pima Canyon squeaking Phainopepla 12/07/2003 Pima Canyon A male in a tree and it was quite tame for a peppie. I took its picture. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 12/28/2003 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 12/28/2003 Pima Canyon pecking around on the ground. Cactus Wren 12/28/2003 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 12/28/2003 Pima Canyon House Finch 12/28/2003 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 12/28/2003 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon On the road out in a tree at the end of the hike. Black-throated Sparrow 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon Ruby-crowned Kinglet 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon Over by where Steve and Sonny buried their treasure. I saw its ruby crown. Verdin 01/04/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Heard only. Cooper's Hawk 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon European Starling 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon House Finch 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Ruby-crowned Kinglet 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Verdin 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Yellow-rumped Warbler 01/25/2004 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Cooper's Hawk 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon House Finch 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Verdin 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon White-throated Swift 02/07/2004 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Cliff Swallow 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Dusky Flycatcher 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon House Sparrow 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon MacGillivray's Warbler 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Verdin 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Wilson's Warbler 04/25/2004 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon More of these than Abert's by far. Canyon Wren 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Great-tailed Grackle 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon No belly band but an awfully red tail. Turkey Vulture 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon He appeared suddenly while we were walking back on the dirt road. Verdin 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 05/23/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/31/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 05/31/2004 Pima Canyon Seen and not heard. By the water tank and near the soltice carving but to the right up on a cliff. Curve-billed Thrasher 05/31/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/31/2004 Pima Canyon Lots of these as usual. Near the stupid golf course there were a couple with a ton of tiny babies. They were totally unafraid of my truck. Loggerhead Shrike 05/31/2004 Pima Canyon He flew by looking like a black and white cigar. Mourning Dove 05/31/2004 Pima Canyon In the desert heat of the mid afternoon the mourning doves were quiet and mysterious. They were perched often on the ground in the shade of an ironwood tree. Small-looking and dessicated and dry and shrunk. White-winged Dove 05/31/2004 Pima Canyon On top of a saguaro by the fruit. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/05/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/05/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/05/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/05/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/05/2004 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 06/05/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/05/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon At BT cliff where you see BT sparrows and BT gnatcatchers. Black-throated Sparrow 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon At BT cliff where you see BT sparrows and BT gnatcatchers. Cactus Wren 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon Heard only up the canyon but by the golf course I saw that hen with her brood. They were practicing eating seeds. Great-tailed Grackle 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon Verdin 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/06/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/13/2004 Pima Canyon Not at the BT cliffs. In a tree nearby but elsewhere. Cactus Wren 06/13/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 06/13/2004 Pima Canyon Right at BT cliffs. He was very tame. Curve-billed Thrasher 06/13/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/13/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/13/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/13/2004 Pima Canyon On a saguaro eating the fruit. Ash-throated Flycatcher 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon Landed on the back of the gilded flicker. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Cactus Wren 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon Plenty of 'em. Gambel's Quail 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Mourning Dove 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 06/19/2004 Pima Canyon He was in a tree. Anna's Hummingbird 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon seen and heard Canyon Wren 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Generic Swallow 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Probably cliff swallows but who knows? I saw these when I was looking up at fat man's pass. Great Egret 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Yes! flying over the desert rocks. Ladder-backed Woodpecker 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Verdin 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/20/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/26/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Cactus Wren 06/26/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Curve-billed Thrasher 06/26/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Gambel's Quail 06/26/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/26/2004 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 06/26/2004 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Generic Swallow 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Ladder-backed Woodpecker 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Rock Dove 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 06/27/2004 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon By the stone houses and very tame indeed. In the arroyo there with the verdin. Nice-looking bird. Gambel's Quail 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon Two of them making cactus wren-type hisses and digging a hole! Mourning Dove 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon Verdin 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 07/01/2004 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon Female with red on the breast. Kind of a lot of red. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Black-throated Sparrow 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Canyon Wren 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon Flying by like a mourning dove. Curve-billed Thrasher 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon flying by Gilded Flicker 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 07/02/2004 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 07/03/2004 Pima Canyon big one in a tree. Cactus Wren 07/03/2004 Pima Canyon at bt cliffs Curve-billed Thrasher 07/03/2004 Pima Canyon as usual Gambel's Quail 07/03/2004 Pima Canyon Greater Roadrunner 07/03/2004 Pima Canyon At the parking lot when I was drinking a bottle of Boston Lager. Mourning Dove 07/03/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/04/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 07/04/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 07/04/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 07/04/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/04/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/04/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 07/04/2004 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 07/05/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/05/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 07/05/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/05/2004 Pima Canyon everywhere Mourning Dove 07/05/2004 Pima Canyon everywhere Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon By the BT cliffs! Black-throated Sparrow 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs! Cactus Wren 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon By the BT Cliffs! Canyon Towhee 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon By the solstice petroglyph. Gambel's Quail 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon By the BT Cliffs! Gilded Flicker 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon Steve pointed out this one as it flew by. Good view. Mourning Dove 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 07/06/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/08/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT Cliffs. Black-throated Sparrow 07/08/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. I also saw an immature at cactus wren alley. Cactus Wren 07/08/2004 Pima Canyon Two of them at Cactus Wren Alley. Curve-billed Thrasher 07/08/2004 Pima Canyon Heard only. Gambel's Quail 07/08/2004 Pima Canyon Everwhere. Mourning Dove 07/08/2004 Pima Canyon everywhere Black-throated Sparrow 07/15/2004 Pima Canyon Two between the water tank and the stone houses. Cactus Wren 07/15/2004 Pima Canyon One made weird noises. He was the one at the BT cliffs. Curve-billed Thrasher 07/15/2004 Pima Canyon Heard Only Gambel's Quail 07/15/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/15/2004 Pima Canyon One whipped around and fluttered in some bushes kind of in a panic. I was worried he might get hurt. I said "You poor thing." Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/19/2004 Pima Canyon at cactus wren alley and BT cliffs Black-throated Sparrow 07/19/2004 Pima Canyon at cactus wren alley and BT cliffs Cactus Wren 07/19/2004 Pima Canyon at cactus wren alley Gila Woodpecker 07/19/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/19/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/21/2004 Pima Canyon at cactus wren alley and BT cliffs both Black-throated Sparrow 07/21/2004 Pima Canyon at BT cliffs Cactus Wren 07/21/2004 Pima Canyon At BT cliffs Curve-billed Thrasher 07/21/2004 Pima Canyon at CW Alley and BT Cliffs Gambel's Quail 07/21/2004 Pima Canyon At BT cliffs Mourning Dove 07/21/2004 Pima Canyon very nice Black-throated Sparrow 07/22/2004 Pima Canyon EXCELLENT view and spectacular as usual. Not at the BT cliffs! Cactus Wren 07/22/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/22/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT Cliffs and the solstice area. Gila Woodpecker 07/22/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/22/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 07/27/2004 Pima Canyon A female right at the parking lot. Cactus Wren 07/27/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/27/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/27/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 07/28/2004 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs. Cactus Wren 07/28/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/28/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/28/2004 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 07/30/2004 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 07/30/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 07/30/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/31/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 07/31/2004 Pima Canyon At first I thought he was a rock wren cause he was out on the rocks. Gambel's Quail 07/31/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/31/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 07/31/2004 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 08/01/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 08/01/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 08/02/2004 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 08/02/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 08/03/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 08/03/2004 Pima Canyon My gosh the glorious flight that these birds do. One came carreening over the ridge high above the deserts and caught the blowing wind clean out over the rolling hills below. Others did much the same. White-winged Dove 08/03/2004 Pima Canyon Saw one. Canyon Wren 08/11/2004 Pima Canyon From the very top of the Ridge Line trail he flew. Gambel's Quail 08/11/2004 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 08/11/2004 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 08/13/2004 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 08/13/2004 Pima Canyon Flying in the 30-mile-an-hour wind high above the ridge line trail where I was drinking Boston Lager. An immature. White-winged Dove 08/13/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 08/29/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 08/29/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 08/29/2004 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 08/29/2004 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 08/29/2004 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Lacked the blank look. It had fine streaking on the head. Notched tail. White eye-ring. Small. Must be a Brewer's sparrow. Canyon Towhee 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon A male flying by. Looked big! Green-tailed Towhee 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Peregrine Falcon 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon Verdin 09/11/2004 Pima Canyon American Kestrel 09/26/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 09/26/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 09/26/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 09/26/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 09/26/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 09/26/2004 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 09/26/2004 Pima Canyon American Kestrel 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Excellent views of this old saddle shoe. Mourning Dove 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon I heard this bird and then we located him. Ditsworth admired him through the binocs. Say's Phoebe 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon He was clean up on top. Verdin 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon White-throated Sparrow 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT. I never saw one here!!!! White-throated Swift 12/11/2004 Pima Canyon Up on top I looked at some jets and then saw these swifts ripping along up there over the mountain. Anna's Hummingbird 12/28/2004 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 12/28/2004 Pima Canyon Heard Only and sort of saw. Verdin 12/28/2004 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon House Finch 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 01/02/2005 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 04/02/2005 2125 North Villas Lane Two flying over Lyle's house or to the left. Ditsworth and I saw these after our hike at Pima Canyon. I had a few unconfirmed glimpses of WW doves that I was unsure of and didn't record. Anna's Hummingbird 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Chipping Sparrow 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Generic Flycatcher 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon House Finch 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Lesser Goldfinch 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 04/02/2005 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Generic Swallow 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Wilson's Warbler 05/20/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/21/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/21/2005 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 05/21/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 05/21/2005 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Pairs more than once. Rufous tails. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Seen and NOT heard. Curve-billed Thrasher 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Very quiet. Northern Mockingbird 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 05/25/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/26/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 05/26/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/26/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/26/2005 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 05/26/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 05/26/2005 Pima Canyon American Kestrel 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Up on a saguaro eating fruit. Brown-headed Cowbird 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon HEARD ONLY. Heard often. Curve-billed Thrasher 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Great Horned Owl 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon He seemed HUGE. Up on a rock. House Finch 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/19/2005 Pima Canyon There were many and they were eating saguaro fruit. Ash-throated Flycatcher 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Lots of 'em. Seen several places including the BT cliffs where the bt sparrow was also seen. Black-throated Sparrow 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon streaked breast. Seen several places including the BT cliffs where the bt gnatcatcher was also seen. Cactus Wren 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon two sightings one of which was very noice indeed. Mourning Dove 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/25/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon At the BT cliffs and elsewhere. Cactus Wren 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon House Finch 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 06/26/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 07/03/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/03/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/03/2005 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 08/28/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 08/28/2005 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 08/28/2005 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 08/28/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 08/28/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 08/28/2005 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon European Starling 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Great-tailed Grackle 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Very bright rufous head. Saw only one. Ditsworth only saw it with the naked eye. He had binocs but didn't use them for this bird. House Finch 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Inca Dove 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon MacGillivray's Warbler 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Wilson's Warbler 09/17/2005 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon European Starling 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Great Horned Owl 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon House Finch 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Red-naped Sapsucker 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Western Kingbird 10/15/2005 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Generic Hawk 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon We thought it might be a peregrine falcon. We saw it from the stone house. Gila Woodpecker 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon House Finch 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 11/06/2005 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Singing like a CB thrasher. Mourning Dove 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Dove 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 12/21/2005 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon tail white underneath. One had a sliver of dark up the middle under the tail. Brewer's Sparrow 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Verdin 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 12/27/2005 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 01/04/2006 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 01/04/2006 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 01/04/2006 Pima Canyon Peregrine Falcon 01/04/2006 Pima Canyon Verdin 01/04/2006 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 01/04/2006 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Oh was he RED. Very RUDDY or RED. We both agreed. He was down in the place where the petroglyph shades his eyes. Cooper's Hawk 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Costa's Hummingbird 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon European Starling 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Golden Eagle 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Green-tailed Towhee 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon House Finch 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Ladder-backed Woodpecker 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Lincoln's Sparrow 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Verdin 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 03/04/2006 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Saw him while I was coming up the road. Ash-throated Flycatcher 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Yellow and white up middle with sides of breast darker. Black-throated Sparrow 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Cliff Swallow 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Costa's Hummingbird 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Generic Flycatcher 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon House Sparrow 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Orange-crowned Warbler 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Verdin 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Wilson's Warbler 05/23/2006 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Cliff Swallow 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Verdin 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 05/29/2006 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 06/03/2006 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/03/2006 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/03/2006 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 06/03/2006 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/03/2006 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/03/2006 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon House Finch 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Verdin 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon White-throated Swift 07/29/2006 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 11/26/2006 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 11/26/2006 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 11/26/2006 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 11/26/2006 Pima Canyon Yellow-rumped Warbler 11/26/2006 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 01/03/2007 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 01/03/2007 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 01/03/2007 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 01/03/2007 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 01/03/2007 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 01/03/2007 Pima Canyon We saw it as we drove up. It flew over the road and up in a paloverde tree. Northern Mockingbird 01/03/2007 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon European Starling 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Gray Flycatcher 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Pumped its tail Great-tailed Grackle 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Verdin 03/14/2007 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Verdin 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 12/30/2007 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 01/12/2008 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 01/12/2008 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 01/12/2008 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 01/12/2008 Pima Canyon FIRST ONE SEEN FOR AGES AROUND TOWN. Northern Cardinal 01/12/2008 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 01/12/2008 Pima Canyon Verdin 01/12/2008 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Verdin 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 02/16/2008 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Gray Flycatcher 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Yes he pumped his tail down. Green-tailed Towhee 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon House Finch 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Townsend's Warbler 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Verdin 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Western Tanager 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Nice male. White-winged Dove 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Wilson's Warbler 05/21/2008 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/15/2008 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/15/2008 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 06/15/2008 Pima Canyon He was very rufous underneath. Chirped. Curve-billed Thrasher 06/15/2008 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/15/2008 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 06/15/2008 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/15/2008 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/21/2008 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Great Horned Owl 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon House Finch 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Northern Cardinal 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Verdin 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 07/27/2008 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon This shrike was on top of a saguaro as we walked back on the road. It was a little skinny but obviously a shrike. A mockingbird was on top of another saguaro. Mourning Dove 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon Verdin 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 05/30/2009 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Loggerhead Shrike 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Verdin 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/07/2009 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon We threw him calabaza seeds and he ate them. This was at the picnic tables. There were a lot of CB thrashers around. Gambel's Quail 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Steve and I went. Greater Roadrunner 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon TWO OF THEM. Very big. Right on the trail. House Finch 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Lesser Nighthawk 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Steve saw this first. He flew up an arroyo and then I went up and there were TWO of them. Mourning Dove 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Verdin 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 06/14/2009 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 10/15/2009 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 10/15/2009 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 10/15/2009 Pima Canyon verdin Generic Flycatcher 10/15/2009 Pima Canyon Some epid with a sharp edge to the eye ring in the corner. Green or grayish. Gila Woodpecker 10/15/2009 Pima Canyon Greater Roadrunner 10/15/2009 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 10/15/2009 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon Verdin 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 2/28/2010 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon three of them FIGHTING. I saw the ATFC in three places: on the way to the tank at the tank and on the road back. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon At Windy Rock. Cactus Wren 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon a very nice specimen indeed. Canyon Towhee 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon Nice one that was intrepid. On the cliff. Curve-billed Thrasher 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon House Finch 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon Oh he was MAGNIF! Verdin 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/1/2010 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 6/7/2010 Pima Canyon Immatures with streaked breasts Cactus Wren 6/7/2010 Pima Canyon Right at Cactus Wren Alley and he jumped up on the cliff just to advertise the place! Canyon Towhee 6/7/2010 Pima Canyon I trapped him in a cave in the cliff. He flew around in there and then got the nerve to fly out. Curve-billed Thrasher 6/7/2010 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/7/2010 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/7/2010 Pima Canyon Western Flycatcher 6/7/2010 Pima Canyon Very yellow. Eye ring and wing bars. Flicked tail UP. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon House Finch 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon Verdin 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/19/2010 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 6/24/2010 Pima Canyon At cactus wr alley. There were a whole lot of these. Like eight of them. They were intrepid. Cactus Wren 6/24/2010 Pima Canyon Just one at cactus w alley and at other places a couple. Curve-billed Thrasher 6/24/2010 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/24/2010 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/24/2010 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 6/24/2010 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/24/2010 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 6/29/2010 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 6/29/2010 Pima Canyon An awful lot of these. Gambel's Quail 6/29/2010 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/29/2010 Pima Canyon House Finch 6/29/2010 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/29/2010 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/29/2010 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 7/27/2010 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 7/27/2010 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 7/27/2010 Pima Canyon Verdin 7/27/2010 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon AT THE BT CLIFFS WITH THE OTHER BT Black-throated Sparrow 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon AT THE BT CLIFFS WITH THE OTHER BT Curve-billed Thrasher 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon two of them on a saguaro House Finch 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon Blood Red Ladder-backed Woodpecker 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon Nice view. Female. Mourning Dove 8/26/2010 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon noisy Cactus Wren 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon he was up on the hill above the road kind of scolding a rock wren Curve-billed Thrasher 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon heard only Gambel's Quail 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon House Finch 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon not the first bird seen. Had to wait. Rock Wren 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon Nice views. Saw rock wrens at least THREE TIMES. Verdin 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon LOTS AND LOTS OF THESE. Yellow-rumped Warbler 11/17/2010 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon heard only Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon heard only Black-throated Sparrow 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon In a bush. I heard him first. Cactus Wren 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon out in the parking lot when we came back Curve-billed Thrasher 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon heard only House Finch 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon nice red ones Red-tailed Hawk 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon flying high. Seemed dark. Rock Wren 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon Steve and I saw him. We had gone up that trail by the saguaro. The dusty white trail that leads to the hyerogliphics. The trailed I used to go with beer and go to the top of the mountain to drink it in 2004. WELL the wren was on a rock up there. NICE VIEW. Say's Phoebe 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon WAY WAY UP HIGH in the cliffs. He went to the top of a bush way up there. Verdin 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon seen and heard White-crowned Sparrow 12/28/2010 Pima Canyon Still a lot here. Anna's Hummingbird 3/17/2011 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 3/17/2011 Pima Canyon European Starling 3/17/2011 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 3/17/2011 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 3/17/2011 Pima Canyon Verdin 3/17/2011 Pima Canyon MATING CALL and he was making a sound like a Bell's Vireo. Abert's Towhee 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon billed thr Gambel's Quail 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Great-tailed Grackle 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon House Finch 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Townsend's Warbler 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Yes. What a surprise. Also to my surprise I found that two years ago in May rather than April I saw this bird in the same site. Verdin 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon MATING CALL White-winged Dove 4/24/2011 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon On the roat to the houses. INTREPID. You could walk right up to him. He was in a creosote bush on the side of the road. Cactus Wren 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon HUGE. Very long. Curve-billed Thrasher 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon House Finch 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon Sage Thrasher 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon ONLY HAVE SEEN THIS GUY ONCE BEFORE. He was in the arroyo in a tree. Very streaked breast. White-winged Dove 5/26/2011 Pima Canyon American Kestrel 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon He was a male and stayed perched on a branch as we walked by on the higher trail going back. You know where the trail goes up on the way in and there's a saguaro there the way I used to go when I took time off when I stepped down as associate incompetent. Anna's Hummingbird 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon House Finch 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Verdin 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/7/2011 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 6/9/2011 Pima Canyon In a tree by the parking lot. He went Purrrrr. Curve-billed Thrasher 6/9/2011 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/9/2011 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/9/2011 Pima Canyon Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6/9/2011 Pima Canyon Verdin 6/9/2011 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/9/2011 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon Great-tailed Grackle 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/21/2011 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 6/23/2011 Pima Canyon He was getting a drink from that pipe that comes out of the drinking fountain. The pipe is by the covered area but out in the desert a little by the trail they closed off. I saw a BT sparrow drinking there once. Cactus Wren 6/23/2011 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 6/23/2011 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 6/23/2011 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/23/2011 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/23/2011 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/23/2011 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 7/2/2011 Pima Canyon At Cactus Wren Alley. Two of them with a baby that was begging for food in a cave in the rocks. Also saw one at the BT CLIFFS. Gambel's Quail 7/2/2011 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 7/2/2011 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Phainopepla 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Verdin 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Yellow-rumped Warbler 11/23/2011 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon Canyon Towhee 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon House Finch 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon House Sparrow 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon MacGillivray's Warbler 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon Verdin 9/18/2012 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 3/16/2013 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 3/16/2013 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 3/16/2013 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 3/16/2013 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 3/16/2013 Pima Canyon Verdin 3/16/2013 Pima Canyon mating call White-crowned Sparrow 3/16/2013 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 10/1/2013 Pima Canyon House Finch 10/1/2013 Pima Canyon HEARD ONLY Mourning Dove 10/1/2013 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 10/1/2013 Pima Canyon Verdin 10/1/2013 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/5/2016 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 6/5/2016 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon Been a while. The Shhhiiiiiii! The Shhhiiiiiii! could be heard a lot and the tail was seen with the white outer tail feathers and dark center. The blue-gray has white outer and a thin black center stripe. Gambel's Quail 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon one Verdin 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon House Finch 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon Red heads and almost white bellies heavily streaked. Anna's Hummingbird 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon Black-chinned Hummingbird 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon I'm guessing here. Hutton's Vireo 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon I GUESS. Spectacles. Wing bars. He seems a little big though. Gila Woodpecker 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon Hermit Thrush 10/22/2018 Pima Canyon washed out but definitely him Gilded Flicker 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon I forgot to write this one down at first. Verdin 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Mating Call Northern Mockingbird 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon making noise Cactus Wren 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon cactus wrench Gambel's Quail 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Rubbish! You can see them at noon and in the afternoon. White-winged Dove 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon twice or thrice Black-chinned Hummingbird 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon at least three times Loggerhead Shrike 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon there were two of these at least. Lots of sightings of these two. Green-tailed Towhee 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon Good bird Townsend's Warbler 5/18/2019 Pima Canyon I forgot what it was and had to look it up! Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 10/28/2019 Pima Canyon Black-throated Sparrow 10/28/2019 Pima Canyon Verdin 10/28/2019 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 10/28/2019 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 10/28/2019 Pima Canyon Canyon Wren 10/28/2019 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon Several sightings Northern Mockingbird 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon More than one sighting that's for sure Cactus Wren 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon Saw them several times and we hear a different call that one or more were making. Mourning Dove 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon House Finch 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon Verdin 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon Great-tailed Grackle 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon As I was driving out I saw these near the entrance by the golf course there. Cliff Swallow 6/23/2020 Pima Canyon As I was driving out I saw these near the entrance by the golf course there. I thought they were swifts. Verdin 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon mating call Northern Mockingbird 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon House Finch 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Bullock's Oriole 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon We were able to see its bullocks clearly. Gambel's Quail 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Brewer's Sparrow 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon I think. Hermit Thrush 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Haven't seen one in a while. Mourning Dove 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Generic Bird 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon It was a Rock Wren I think but it could have been a little canyon wren. I don't have "generic wren" in the database. Green-tailed Towhee 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Dits took a picture. Generic Flycatcher 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 5/5/2021 Pima Canyon Heard one and I went back down in the canyon and saw him. Then they were up by the parking lot with their usual loud call. Rock Dove 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon Two or three flew over. Gambel's Quail 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon Plenty Curve-billed Thrasher 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon plenty Verdin 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon HEARD ONLY Ash-throated Flycatcher 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon I only heard it; Dits saw it Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 6/15/2021 Pima Canyon Heard it first. Then saw it. Verdin 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Peach-faced Love Bird 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Curve-billed Thrasher 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail White-winged Dove 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Gambel's Quail 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Gilded Flicker 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Rock Dove 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Greater Roadrunner 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Took movies. Desert Classic Trail European Starling 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Mourning Dove 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail House Finch 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Gila Woodpecker 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Inca Dove 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon He seemed BIG for an Inky Dinky. Desert Classic Trail Black-throated Sparrow 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Haven't seen them on the last couple of trips. Desert Classic Trail Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon nice gunnite catcher Desert Classic Trail Anna's Hummingbird 7/11/2021 Pima Canyon Desert Classic Trail Curve-billed Thrasher 10/10/2021 Pima Canyon Ditsworth and Steve Verdin 10/10/2021 Pima Canyon Ditsworth and Steve Black-throated Sparrow 10/10/2021 Pima Canyon Ditsworth and Steve House Finch 10/10/2021 Pima Canyon Ditsworth and Steve Anna's Hummingbird 10/10/2021 Pima Canyon Ditsworth and Steve Gambel's Quail 10/10/2021 Pima Canyon Ditsworth and Steve Gilded Flicker 1/6/2022 Pima Canyon twice flying over House Finch 1/6/2022 Pima Canyon rah Curve-billed Thrasher 1/6/2022 Pima Canyon UNBIRDY HERE THIS TIME Rock Wren 1/13/2022 Pima Canyon I thought it was an Ash-t flycatcher because he was on a twig! Then I saw others on rocks. I 'm out of practice. Curve-billed Thrasher 1/13/2022 Pima Canyon two squawking at each other at the parking area House Finch 1/13/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 1/20/2022 Pima Canyon MC twee twee twee Curve-billed Thrasher 1/20/2022 Pima Canyon by the bathrooms on the way back Rock Wren 1/20/2022 Pima Canyon House Finch 1/20/2022 Pima Canyon Say's Phoebe 1/20/2022 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 1/21/2022 Pima Canyon White-crowned Sparrow 1/21/2022 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 1/21/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 1/21/2022 Pima Canyon Mating call Mc Northern Mockingbird 1/21/2022 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 1/21/2022 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 1/25/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 1/25/2022 Pima Canyon or maybe an aud warb Curve-billed Thrasher 1/25/2022 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 2/1/2022 Pima Canyon I think. Not birdy here. Gambel's Quail 2/3/2022 Pima Canyon raven Common Raven 2/3/2022 Pima Canyon I think they were ravens Verdin 2/3/2022 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 2/10/2022 Pima Canyon Always called when I get back to the parking lot and haven't seen diddle for birds. He is teasing me. Does it every time. Common Raven 2/10/2022 Pima Canyon Two or more flying up over the hills as we walked. Verdin 2/11/2022 Pima Canyon throated sp Black-throated Sparrow 2/11/2022 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 2/11/2022 Pima Canyon On a cactus calling VW style. House Finch 2/11/2022 Pima Canyon Some guy identified it as..."A sparrow! It's a sparrow!" White-crowned Sparrow 2/11/2022 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 2/11/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 2/15/2022 Pima Canyon Generic No Bird 2/23/2022 Pima Canyon NO HIKE EITHER! TOO COLD! It was sprinkling and it was TOO COLD TO WALK. JUST TOO DOGGONE COLD. Verdin 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon two-note mating call Cactus Wren 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon Heard Only Curve-billed Thrasher 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon with a mocker Northern Mockingbird 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon with a citizen's band thrasher cb thrasher Black-throated Sparrow 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon Greater Roadrunner 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon way at the end of the trail by the golf course Cooper's Hawk 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon I think maybe. Soaring above the cliffs by the parking area. Mourning Dove 2/28/2022 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 3/3/2022 Pima Canyon heard only Verdin 3/3/2022 Pima Canyon with regular call and mating call A Pair Northern Mockingbird 3/3/2022 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 3/11/2022 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 3/11/2022 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 3/11/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 3/11/2022 Pima Canyon Mating Call Costa's Hummingbird 3/11/2022 Pima Canyon I think. He was in a tree. Black-throated Sparrow 3/16/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 3/16/2022 Pima Canyon mating call House Finch 3/16/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 3/18/2022 Pima Canyon mating call Yellow-rumped Warbler 3/18/2022 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 3/18/2022 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 3/18/2022 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 3/18/2022 Pima Canyon Turkey Vulture 3/18/2022 Pima Canyon Rock Wren 4/7/2022 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 4/7/2022 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 4/7/2022 Pima Canyon Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4/7/2022 Pima Canyon in the parking lot Verdin 4/7/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon MC mating call Cliff Swallow 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon as I drove up and later I think Yellow-rumped Warbler 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon Gila Woodpecker 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 5/10/2022 Pima Canyon Gilded Flicker 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon Ash-throated Flycatcher 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon Anna's Hummingbird 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon Cactus Wren 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon Red-tailed Hawk 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon Verdin 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon MC mating call White-winged Dove 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon Gambel's Quail 5/12/2022 Pima Canyon Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12/6/2022 Pima Canyon Dits took a picture of him in the wash. Verdin 12/6/2022 Pima Canyon Northern Mockingbird 12/6/2022 Pima Canyon Curve-billed Thrasher 12/6/2022 Pima Canyon Abert's Towhee 12/6/2022 Pima Canyon Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 12/6/2022 Pima Canyon I think it was black-t rather than ue-gray Greater Roadrunner 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon Big one as I drove into the canyon road. A couple of old folk like me were looking at it. Cactus Wren 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon calling all over HO Gambel's Quail 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon all over Northern Mockingbird 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon plenty of 'em Verdin 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon twee twee Curve-billed Thrasher 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon House Sparrow 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon White-winged Dove 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon Mourning Dove 5/9/2023 Pima Canyon |
PIMA CANYON JOURNAL Jeff was here and left the other day for Texas. Steve just moved into his new house??? YES THAT WAS ON NEBRASKA STREET. Noodles and I went for a walk down Pima Canyon today. I bought a sun face at Tianguis and spray painted it turquoise to put on my garage because we painted the mailbox and gate turquoise. 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." Pima Canyon 9/20/1987 I call them blue-grays, but I'm sure I'm wrong. It's in the yellow journal. Pima Canyon 11/22/1987 From a yellow journal notebook. It's 12/2010 now and I just discovered this no bird trip. NOTES SAY: Larry and Steve and I went up Pima Canyon. We took a different hike. Real nice. Then we had tacos at El Taquito. NO BIRDS WERE RECORDED IN THE NOTEBOOK. Pima Canyon 01/29/1990 Mom and Dad and I went to South Mountain. The road to Pima Canyon was blocked off. I found a scorpion and also found some mistletoe seeds stuck to a mesquite tree. Steve and Sherry met us at El Taquito. We drank a couple of beers. Pima Canyon 08/27/1995 Steve and I went to Pima Canyon and Hiked the whole thing. We talked to some mounted sheriffs who didn't like the mountain bikes at all either. The scenery is spectacular and there is not a single bottle cap out there. Pima Canyon 05/29/1997 Yesterday Steven and I went to South Mountain and hiked for a long long time. It was 106° out and I drank my whole gallon of water. We went also two other times out there. The first time down the wash and back before we even reached the stone houses and the second time to the stone houses and back on the road. Yesterday we went WAY up there and it was really hot. Pima Canyon 08/24/1997 Sally came here with Christopher and Kate. We went to South Mountain and hiked clean up in there. It was hot, but we brought enough water -- barely -- to survive. We went to different places. Mostly to Peter Piper Pizza and like that. Pima Canyon 12/30/1997 December 30, 1997 Pima Canyon 1/8/1998 Steve and I. YOU KNOW I THINK THIS IS JANUARY 11TH! Pima Canyon 1/11/1998 jackrabbit Pima Canyon 4/26/1998 Sonny and Steve and I went. We walked clear up to fat man's pass and we walked there for about five hours. Came back on the Mormon Trail. It started raining and thundering and the rain was quite cold. It stopped and we were warm again. ----- well, it's years later and i wanted to add that this was the time (if I remember correctly) that I had the newist Swift audubons and had to wrap them in plastic of some kind to protect them from the rain. Pima Canyon 5/17/1998 No Notes Entered Pima Canyon 6/14/1998 June 17, 1998 Last weekend Wendy and Lacey came here. We had lunch at Serrano's with dad and everyone. Wendy and steve and I cleaned Dad's house. Lacey likes the xfiles so we surfed the net. We all went on sunday to Pima Canyon, but it was too hot for wendy and lacey. We walked a long way, though and saw some sights and some birds. We ate at tianguis. We ate tacos and goofed off there. Pima Canyon 10/04/1998 October 4, 1998 Sunday -- Went to Eliud Valdes's funeral today. In the morning Steve and Sonny and I went to Pima Canyon and rode bikes. I bought a new bike yesterday for 99 bucks. Took it to Gallagher's yesterday and the system worked well. I can go to the saloon and not get a DUI, but it's more dangerous riding the bike home. At Pima Canyon, I saw black throated sparrows and also the first white crowned sparrows that I haven't seen for a while. Pima Canyon 11/15/1998 No Notes Entered Pima Canyon 4/2/1999 April 3, 1999 Saturday COULD THIS BE THE 3RD OF APRIL? Sally and Kate came on Thursday. It rained. They went to see Dad. At night we all went over to see him at Lutheran Hospital. On Friday it snowed all over Arizona and here it rained, the wind blew at about 40 miles per hour and it was colder than a witch’s chest! Then it cleared up some and was beautiful. We went to Pima canyon: sonny, kate, sally, and I. We saw some birds. We went up to the houses and then we walked back. It took a long time. Pima Canyon 11/21/1999 No Notes Entered Pima Canyon 03/05/2000 March 5, 2000 Sunday Pima Canyon 04/14/2001 Fantastic wilderness. Red flowers on ocotillos -- etc.! Pima Canyon 04/28/2001 Steve and me. I phoned and agreed to meet him at the stone houses at 10:30. I got there at 10:45. Long hike. I'm tough. Smilin' coyote. Pima Canyon 07/21/2001 Steve and I went. Pima Canyon 09/09/2001 We went with EMILY COLE. Pima Canyon 09/23/2001 Steve and I. Pima Canyon 02/17/2002 Sky overcast. Pima Canyon 02/24/2002 No Notes Entered Pima Canyon 03/01/2002 No Notes Entered Pima Canyon 6/29/2002 Steve and I went early in the morning. He overslept and I had to ring the doorbell. We started at the golf course and hiked up and around. Pima Canyon 07/21/2002 I thought I would die. I climbed all the way to the top of the ridge trail. Started at at least 2:30. No one there -- well maybe one or two hikers somewhere there. Dead quiet. Hot. But there was a breeze. I brought four quarts of gatorade, so I survived. I walked too far. Later: I remember I climbed way up on a mountain all dry and barren and dusty and I got hot and poured water over my head. I remember I started walking down and realized I didn't know where the trail led, so I went back up and had to climb clean back up to go down the trail I knew. (on 6/12/2004 I checked history of temperatures and it was 102 in chandler.) Pima Canyon 07/22/2002 I tried to repeat yesterday's wonderful trip without the terrible exertion. I brought more than a gallon of water and drank very little this time. I didn't climb much, so I didn't get too tired or too hot. It was VERY deserted. I got there at about three in the heat of the afternoon. There were two other hikers I saw as I walked out and another was walking in. I talked to him about birds. He said that certain herons fly at 30000 feet. Bullcrap thought I but said nothing. Afterwards I toasted my adventure at the Copper Canyon brew pub. Pima Canyon 07/28/2002 Steve and I went on a marathon hot hike. 10:30 to 1:30 up Pima Canyon. Went clean up past ojo de awa over to the tunnel and then down the arroyo to where it meets the Mormon Trail. Coyote looked at us. Met some guy in the tunnel there who had hiked in Guatemala. Afterwards, we toasted our adventure over a couple of IPA's at the Copper Canyon Brewery. Pima Canyon 08/09/2002 It was really hot. (Now, 6/11/2004, I checked records and it was 109°.)Steve and I climbed to the top of the mountain right to the right of the parking lot. It was early afternoon. I got tired up there. We left and went back and saw Sonny. I bought my digital camcorder just a few minutes before I went on this hike. We left it at home. Pima Canyon 09/08/2002 Went with Steve and Sonny and TWO of Sonny's friends. LIGHTLY SPRINKLING AT TIMES. QUITE COOL. We saw a TIGER RATTLESNAKE! He was right at the stone houses. Very small head, big rattle. Weird. We went to the tunnel and that took some time. We had a wonderful hike although it was too long because no one walked quickly. I found what COULD be a meteorite. I hope I make a million. Pima Canyon 09/15/2002 Went with Steve and his friend. Oh, what a hike. Clean to fat man's pass. We saw a coyote and we hiked for HOURS. Not so hot as we started at 7:30 or so but then it did get hot. Steve and I and Steve's friend. Pima Canyon 01/05/2003 Steve and I hiked to fat man's pass in the morning. There were kind of a lot of people there. I brought my new digital camera and took pictures. I ate corn nuts. Also, Steve called sally from there and talked about his book. I felt very old as I tried to pull myself up over a huge rock above a cliff and found my arms week and myself clumsy. Pima Canyon 02/01/2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry over Texas today. We to Pima Canyon with Tom Ditsworth. Steve and Sonny. I took Noodles and we walked quite a ways but then went back. Pima Canyon 04/13/2003 There were no bt sparrows or bt gnatcatchers. Verdins with mating call. this has been going on for a week or two at least. This was the day Sonny let the white helmeted pigeon out of the coop. We got tired and against Steve's protests went back to the car. It was a good hike. I walked toward the tunnel, but was called back as Sonny and his friend didn't want to go any farther. Pima Canyon 05/11/2003 WENT TO RIO SALADO BREWERY AFTERWARDS. WENT TO THE CANYON AT AROUND 2:00 PM Pima Canyon 05/21/2003 Cactus wrens going ape with curve-billed thrashers. Nice wilse's. gt towhee's tail was slick algae green. Pima Canyon 05/22/2003 It wasn't as hot as advertised. Took the week off and did nothing! I just walked down to the tank and the little waterhole for wildlife down the wash. It was very nice. I had my camel pack. Some flies. Very nice indeed. Also I brought a margarita in a can. Drank it afterwards and went to Rio Salado Brewery. Pima Canyon 05/25/2003 Memorial day. Saw the Indy 500. As usual a bore. Worked on the Tascam 224 stuff and Deck a little. Went here at about three o'clock and hiked up to the water tank. Went back on the road and it seemed to take a long time. Almost no one there. Bees in the paloverdes. It's really nice out here. I love it. Pima Canyon 06/01/2003 Went on a little heat walk. A couple of other people were doing it it seemed. 104 degrees. Nice breeze. Went to Rio Salado Brewery afterwards and they had a blues band in there and then some guy with a weird Goya guitar. He was buddhist. Pima Canyon 06/15/2003 This was after recording with Carlos and Scott five hours on a Brazilian song. I went at three thirty or so. Oh, it was 108 degrees. I went up to the water tank. It took twenty minutes to hoof it back downhill on the road. Went to rio salado brewery afterwards. Called Wendy and we may go to Grand Cayman. Yah. Pima Canyon 06/28/2003 Went for a short walk up there. Just g. quail and m. doves. 111 degrees. Pima Canyon 07/11/2003 Walked up at 108 degrees and it was fine. I walked back and drove to tianguis, but left there and went to rio salado brewery. Pima Canyon 08/24/2003 Saw two Tiger Rattlers. Jesus we could have stepped on them both. One looked like granite. God we walked a long way. Clean to the highest view and back down the National Trail. Pima Canyon 09/21/2003 Ditsworth and Steve and I went to Fat Man's Pass. We saw no snakes. I brought too much water. I have my new Walmart white tennis shoes that hurt a little. Drank lots of water because it kind of got hot. We went up Pima Arroyo all the way and took the Mormon Trail back. Pima Canyon 09/28/2003 Got up and left at six and got to South Mountain at 6:30. Ditsworth and Steve and Me. We saw the Marcos de Niza rock and went up that trail. We found a small trail that led to Pima Canyon and we took the arroyo back. A rattlesnake rattled in the bushes and I saw him under a rock. I believe it was a black-tailed rattler. Ditsworth put his stick in there and the snake bit it, leaving two teeth holes in the soft rubbery end. Also I found some shells from the sea of cortez up there. Perhaps -- just perhaps some Indian left them there a thousand years ago. Pima Canyon 10/05/2003 I arrived at a quarter to two in the afternoon. I had been working on my Elliot and Cooper report and so I was late. It was over a hundred degrees. I walked down Desert Classic and then took Beverly Canyon to Pima Canyon, which was VERY quiet, and walked to the water tank where I ate my sandwich. Few people there. Only an occasional breeze, but very nice. Afterwards I went to Rio Salado Brewery and there was a guy there singing ribbled British ditties. I sang a couple to the guys myself and got some good laughs. Drank two beers and went home and here I am. Noodles was very happy when I got back. She danced and pranced and barked. Pima Canyon 11/02/2003 Dits and Steve and I went. We went down the Javelina Trail. Cool out. Only drank a little. Rat turds in the arroyo. Caves. bum at the end of the trail. girl had a bad dog. Pima Canyon 11/16/2003 Steve and Dits and I. Got up at 5:30 and Dits was here by six. Steve was 15 minutes late. I slept out back with Noodles on the patio. Walked about six miles. Oh, we walked. We went high up on the hills and then to the secret water hole which was very birdy. We hiked up to a mine too and I found some malachite. Excellent hike. Oh, I wore my black Levi "jacket" and I found that I needed it as it was cold and I never had to take if off much to my surprise. I was sure I'd get hot. People, including Ditsworth, were hiking with long pants. It sprinkled just a tiny bit. My white tennis shoes don't hurt anymore by the way. This makes five good long hikes with them. Pima Canyon 11/23/2003 Steve and I went there at a little after seven in the morning. We took his toyota. We Walked up the road and turned left to beverly? and then onto an animal trail where we found a tortoise shell. Photographed it. Climbed then quite high and made it back down to the stone houses. Good high hike way the hell up there. Excellent. Pima Canyon 12/07/2003 Dits and Steve and i went. I woke up at three AM and had a sip of beer -- a sam adams -- what was left as I was sleeping outside with Noodles and then I went back to bed to rest and sleep but then I wanted some more Sam Adams and I got up and had one. Noodles was under a blanket and lying on her special down pillow. I uncovered her, picked her up, and came inside. Dits came by at six. I showed him my new piano. Steve was forty minutes late and we went hiking. Pima Canyon 12/28/2003 Steve and I went there around one o'clock and we just cooked up there near Javelina Canyon. I cooked canned spaghetti and he had roast beef hash. It was pretty cold there. Pima Canyon 01/04/2004 Dits and Steve and I. Met at my house at 7:00 AM and left for Pima Canyon at 7:30. Pretty cold. Dits had a GPS device. We went up on the Ridge Line Trail high. Then we went up the Mormon trail and went up a wash and cooked lunch. I had ramen and kippered herring. We cooked at the place where Steve and Sonny buried a treasure. Pima Canyon 01/25/2004 Dits and I went and Steve didn't come. Last night the rover landed on mars. The second in a week or two. Not Spirit, but Opportunity. We walked up the Mormon Trail and then over to the tunnel on National. It RAINED the whole time, but stopped for the way back. Afterwards, we looked at Martian pictures on line and then looked at my palindromes and listened to the cd song byToo Slim and Riders in the Sky on palindromes. Pima Canyon 02/07/2004 this was the time Steve and his friend Dana went and we yelled at the bikes and the guy argued back and later came back and jumped over the rocks where we were. What an asshole. Kind of ruined the hike for me and it was good hike and I was in a good mood. Pima Canyon 04/25/2004 Steve and I went up there. This was the time I was depressed because that darned teacher sent an e-mail to a department saying that he had a room conflict and all hell was breaking loose and the buck stops with me and life is hell. I had my new Carson 80 pack and fizzie water. It was hot. We went at 10:30 or so and just went up to the water tank. Lots of birds. Some guys on horseback showed us where they had seen a gila monster but Steve suspected they saw just a chuckwalla. We saw a huge chuckwalla that was almost black sitting up on a rocky crag and with a lighter-colored one on a rock next to him. We went to the Rio Salado brewery afterwards but we didn't have any beer. We just looked at the art on the walls. The guy there said that it was open mike day today. It is the last Sunday of each month. Pima Canyon 05/23/2004 I got up at 5:15 so i could be ready for Steve to come by and hike at six o'clock, but he never came. later in the day we went. BULL SNAKE! I screamed when I saw him because I almost stepped on him and I thought he was a rattler. We took pictures and he went into a hole. He was lying right on the hot rocks of the arroyo. Pima Canyon 05/31/2004 I went there at about 2:30. Not too many birds. Hot. Over 100 degrees. Nice cool breeze though. Still some few people out there but darned few. Few birds. I was going to go to work and diddle some stuff that I didn't do, but then I decided to have my own day off and screw work. I'm glad I went. I am envigorated. I walked back down the road. It took about 25 minutes from the water tank. Pima Canyon 06/05/2004 I went at about 3:30. It was supposed to be 110 degrees, but I don't think it was that hot. Saw three other people out there: two guys and a girl. Nice breeze and what a hike. Just went up to the water tank. When I started, I took that little trail that goes up on top and then goes back down into Pima Canyon. The black-throated sparrow was in a corner in the wash with a cliff and some shade and some trees. I stood also up on the rocks there by the solstice petroglyph. Nice breeze. Lots of nice breezes. Bees in the waterhole. I had Strawberry Kiwis fizzy water and also Tropical fizzy water. The tropical was more like papaya than mango as it had a vomit-like taste. Very tropical. I drank a beer when I got back to the truck. Then I called Wendy in Utah when the phone quit wanting to roam. I got Lacy and she said that Wendy was in Middlebury and that they were both coming down here this week. Pima Canyon 06/06/2004 I left the Key Lime flavored fizzy water in the freezer and forgot to bring it. I had the camel pak with two liters in it and my favorite the Peach Grapefruit. I only drank the water on the trip. I named one cliff BT Cliff because you always see BT gnatcatchers and BT sparrows there. Only about three people went on by. About 106 degrees or maybe a little more. Very invigorating hiking up there. Went back on the road and it took about twenty minutes from the water tank. I drank a light beer in the parking lot afterwards and that was a lot of fun to top it all off that way. Pima Canyon 06/13/2004 103 or so degrees. Nice breeze! Went up to some power poles, an easy walk. Then went to the water tank. I had a Stone IPA in the car with frozen squash to keep it cool. I drank it, but people were coming into the parking lot at 4:00. Weird. I went to Rio Salado and the happy crowd welcomed me. I looked at the art. I drank one beer. I left. I named some other places. The gray waterfalls and junk. Pima Canyon 06/19/2004 A big coyote walked down the wash just behind the picnic tables. He had a long face. I followed him but, of course, did not see him again. Six species at the BT cliffs. Lots of very large Rock Squirrels and small cotton tails. Also, wild lizards. Brownish ruddy big speckled. One like a collared lizard. One with a skull-like head. Supposed to be 106 but it was windy. It didn't seem to hot. I drank less than a liter and a quarter of fizzie water: peach grapefruit and grapefruit tangerine. yesterday i typed up Paul Corrigan's early observation comments. They were not glowing as he has NO idea how to teach an ESL class. Pima Canyon 06/20/2004 Dits and Steve and I went before six in the morning and went to Fat Man's Pass. We went up the arroyo and then to the water tank and then up the trail and to that arroyo full of javelina poop with orange peels. It was a long hike that way. I slid down Fat Man's Pass and I ate some peanutbutter crackers. Had some corn nuts too and some cheetos jalepeño chedard crackers. Our thermometers read 105 degrees on the way back, but I don't know. A dog left a train of horses running after a jack rabbit. When we got to the stone houses on the way back, we took the road. It took a little over twenty minutes. The tank is closer to the stone houses than I thought. Pima Canyon 06/26/2004 I went to Fahrenheit 911 and then to pima canyon. The movie wasn't very good. I hiked to the stone houses. 106 degrees and not as much wind as lately but it didn't seem very hot. My camel pack nozzle broke off so I don't have that bite valve. I stopped at Tianguis and bought a table for the back yard -- one of those ones that they used to sell at Home Depot. Then I stopped in to a Home Brew place over by Jupe's bar and bought some hops and some hop syrup that I can dribble into beer. Elliot and Cooper Roads 06/26/2004 I went to McDonald's first and Noodles barfed up the sausage mcmuffin with egg that I gave her. We met a guy on the canal road with a dog off the leash. Noodles stayed in the car. I'm going the Fahrenheit 911 this morning and then to Pima Canyon. See you later! Pima Canyon 06/27/2004 I set the alarm for four AM and took Noodles for a walk early. Dits and Steve came at five o'clock. We hiked five hours clean to the top of South Mountain. I brought blue ice substitute. It was overcast -- or at least there always seemed to be a cloud in front of Mr. Yellowface. I had a sandwich with beef and miracle whip and cheese. Pima Canyon 07/01/2004 Saw little cottontails and ground squirrels. I sprinkled some of Mom's ashes at the BT cliffs and at the stone house canyon there and also on a waterfall coming up. Just one mourning dove at the BT cliffs. Funny; there were almost no cars at 4:30 or so at the place but when I got back at 5:30 or so the place was filling up. People are going there after work apparently. I should start going at 3:30 as before and when I get back there will be no one in the parking lot. I thought the hot weather scared everyone off by noon. I does on the weekend. I went to work for about five minutes to get a phone number and junk. I'm on vacation for six weeks and today is my first day as the EX ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR. Pima Canyon 07/02/2004 Stopped at the vets with Noodles' urine sample and got some incontinence medicine. Went to the stone houses and got back to the car at 4:54. Not many cars in the parking lot at that time. I drank two Boston lagers. Pima Canyon 07/03/2004 Stopped at the Vet for Noodles' anti biotics. She has a bladder infection so they say. Went up that trail out of the wash that goes the high way and then I headed north a bit and made it up a ways and headed back into Pima Arroyo to the BT cliffs and the tank and stone houses. Not too hot. some good breezes. Started at 3:35 and was by bay 4:50. Over an hour hike. Wore my other tennis shoes and they were mighty dusty when I got back home. Pima Canyon 07/04/2004 After I went to the Arboretum I went here. I went a little early. 2:35 or so. Temp was supposed to be 106 but it seemed like 98 or so. Not very hot. Tomorrow will be 108 so they say so I will try again. I went up to the power lines and marveled at the fact that two boards were holding up a hug length of cable a half a mile long. I went back on the road from the stone houses and then I dropped back into Pima Arroyo and went back. There were some parks guys with a blazer or something with cop lights on the top. They had badges but no guns. I wanted to talk to them about the empty water tank -- the animals have no water! They drove off. I snuck two beers int he car and drank them at the almost deserted parking lot. Two Boston Lagers. Pima Canyon 07/05/2004 I got back to the parking lot at 629 so I guess I started around 5:30. I had come from the office where I had to make sure everyone got their student evaluation folders even though I'm not asc director anymore. Sheesh, people show up at 6:30. There were fourteen cars at least. there were very few when I arrived. It was supposed to be 107, but it wasn't hot. Tomorrow is supposed to be 110 degrees, so that will be a good day to take a hot hike. Pima Canyon 07/06/2004 Steve drove over and we went late. I got home at a little before six. Supposed to be 106, but it didn't seem hot although it was hotter than yesterday. Went up to the powerlines and down to the BT cliffs and to the stone houses. No water in the tank and the animals must be thirsty. Pima Canyon 07/08/2004 I WAS hot today. Burning the skin type hot. Nice breeze. I went to the stone houses. Back to the parking lot at 4:20. Saw only two other people on the trail. Pima Canyon 07/15/2004 There were only two people I saw, and they were on my way back. Usery Mountain Park 07/18/2004 Went at five AM with steve and sonny and ditsworth. Hot. I drank 3.25 quarts. Hiked seven miles around the mountain and up it. It was 108 degrees today so it was a shame that I didn't go to Pima Canyon, but I was rather beat up and sleepy after the seven-mile hike in the very hot early morning sun and it was of all things humid. Sonny hiked quite well. We marched at a very fast pace even uphill. We were strong and mighty! In our tribe we eat GOAT MEAT and it makes us strong! Pima Canyon 07/19/2004 Cactus wren alley was very interesting. AMAZING LIZARDS. Pima Canyon 07/21/2004 111 degrees Fahrenheit. Took photos for Diamond Mine. Got back to the parking lot at 5:00 and drank two beers. MONKS, COTTN TLS. Pima Canyon 07/22/2004 I went kind of late and for some reason it wasn't hot! it was breezy in the hundreds I guess but not hot. I went down the wash and then turned left for a time and then went to the water tank. No water in the tank or pool. None. I drank a beer on the hike back and I stopped at Copper Canyon on the way home. It wasn't so good. Pima Canyon 07/27/2004 The Democratic convention was going to be on so I left early. I just hiked up to some place where there was this exit out of the wash and drank a beer at a garbage can very near the ring of stones in the road. Then I walked back. THIS WAS THE DAY I PAINTED PAUL SHRAGE'S WALL-- well, actually mine. Pima Canyon 07/28/2004 The Democratic Convention is still going on so I left a little early. I walked to the water tank though. No water in it doggone it. I had a beer at the ring of stones and stepped on my glasses in the outhouse at the parking lot. 104 degrees. I can't get enough of this wonderful vacation and this glorious weather. Pima Canyon 07/30/2004 Before Sally and Kate came, I went hiking. I went up the Ridge Line Trail after I came out of Pima Wash. I went to the top. I wanted to walk back along a ridge but it was closed. I know now how to get to the ridge line trail. Went at 10:10 and got home at noon. I had fizzy water. I put it in the fanny pack and two of them in there is too uncomfortable. I think I'm going back to the pack. Pima Canyon 07/31/2004 I went up on the ridge trail to the top. I drank two beers up there. it was fun. There was some guy who came by. He was a guitar player. We talked about guitars etc. Very hot but so wonderfully windy that it was nice and cool. Almost like the ocean. I walked back a new way with a nice trail. Very comfy. Pima Canyon 08/01/2004 Up to the top on the ridge line trail to the flat rock. 108 or so. Very hot going up. Up there I had two beers I enjoyed very much. Then it was cool. No one in sight for a long time. One guy far in the distance onthe trail and then two dumb old bike riders. That's it. Walked back the way I came. Sally and kate will be back from Jeff's at 5:00. Pima Canyon 08/02/2004 Went up the ridge line trail to the top. Drank a 24-ounce of Natural Light. a guy jogged slowly in over the ridge line trail carrying no water. He was old and red-faced and he kept going by and down the hill. Pima Canyon 08/03/2004 No Notes Entered Pima Canyon 08/11/2004 All the way to the top with a Sam Adams Boston Lager. Very peaceful up there. I saw a girl in a sports bra way down below. She had no water. Hotter than heck. Two fat guys walked down the road below. That old guy with the red face came up as I was walking down. Pima Canyon 08/13/2004 Up to the top of the Ridge Line Trail Pima Canyon 08/29/2004 Went to the top of beer hill at around 1:30 or so. Two couples went by. I searched for 2015 sierra vista but couldn't find it. Pima Canyon 09/11/2004 STEVE AND DITS came by at 6:00 AM and we hiked to FAT MAN'S PASS. Up PIMA ARROYO. I was very fit. Brought grape KOOL-AID. I plowed up the hills and it was like in a dream so fast and effortlessly I could fly up the trail. 90+ degrees. Maybe 98. Slid down fatman's pass. Pima Canyon 09/26/2004 WENT AT 3:30 or so and went up to the top of the hill. The setting sun made different views in the distance. For example, out by the Santans there were mountains with ocre cliffs and a street below looked wider and more interesting. The McDowells or whatever just north of Phoenix looked huge. Pima Canyon 12/11/2004 OH WE HIKED A LONG TIME. DITS AND STEVE I GUESS. Clean up to the top clean from Marcos de Nisa rock all the way up. There were Xmas tree bulbs and junk on some bushes way out there. Litterbugs. I would have destroyed them all and packed out the garbage, but the fellows advised against. Still, I left notes reading "666" and "Litterbug" on their trees. Joy should follow my footsteps and I do what I can to make that happen. They ain't comin' back to clean up their mess, friends. Finally, we went down the side o' the moun'un to Desert Classic. From there it was a miles-long hike to Marcos de Nisa rock again. We were surprised how far we had to walk on Desert Classic. We walked CLEAN up to the top. SOMETHING LIKE 7:45 TO 1:00 to finish the hike. Pima Canyon 04/02/2005 Ditsworth and I. Steve had a cold. MY SWIFT AUDUBON ORIGINALS BROKE. We went up Pima Arroyo all the way to the tunnel. It took about an hour to walk back but a lot longer to get there. Pima Canyon 05/20/2005 I COULDN'T GET OUT OF THE SUN and I was SICK and I NEARLY DIED. Oh, this was a TOUGH hike. It was just the same one I have done a million times but God I almost DIED. Yes, I did drink beer up there, but I had a hard time getting up there in the first place. I jumped in the horse trough when I got back. Oh, it was hot. I believe I am not in shape at all. I was dying goiing up that hill. I went and drank beer up there a thousand times last summer, but this time I nearly died even before I got to the beer. There were also BUGS UP THERE AT THE ROCK and they were bugging me. I used the Repel insect repellent but they didn't find it that repellent. BUGS. It was a long long long walk back to the truck. Oh, I was hot. It was only 106 or so -- maybe less. It will be 109 tomorrow. Pima Canyon 05/21/2005 Steve and I went for a mighty hike, but we only went an eighth of a mile and then come back. Some guy said he saw an owl up there. Then we bought simco hops at the Home Brew Depot so I could try out the Brew Sack deal that Michelle bought me. I mixed it all up. GOD IT'S HOT. 109? 107? Steve's car wouldn't start when he tried to leave so I had to give him a ride and the car is still out front. Lucky it didn't strand us over at Pima Canyon. Pima Canyon 05/25/2005 I took my chair! Oh, it was comfortable. I drank beer out there beyond the BT cliffs and this time it was easy. Very hot but cool in the shade. That's the secret. In the summer, don't climb and don't sit up there on the mountaintop where there is no way to get out of the sun. I used to go up there and heck that was in August and September (hot) too so maybe I'm getting old. Pima Canyon 05/26/2005 I BROKE MY CHAIR! I went with a 24-ounce coors and a 21-ounce sam adams and decided just to walk a quarter mile or so and I sat down and the darned chair broke. I sat there on the broken chair for an hour. I lay there. I was peaceful. Birds and other animals came by. No people walked by. 3:07-4:30 more or less. Pima Canyon 06/19/2005 GREAT HORNED OWL. TIGER RATTLER. BIG HIKE. Present on this excursion was Ditsworth, Thomas; Cole, Thomas; Cole, Stephen; and Cole, Stephen West II. One TIGER RATTLER light granite color. (WHAT? IT'S A SPECKLED RATTLER!!) Very light. Snapped at us and tried to kill us. The Great Horned Owl 'twas very noice. We went all the way to the tunnel via Pima Wash. Lots of loafing. Spent many hours up there. It got to be 105 degrees. I brought my new chair. Wore my white tennies. Went in Ditsworth's new truck. Went back on the road after National Trail and stopped at the ring of stones. Pima Canyon 06/25/2005 109 degrees but it didn't seem hot. I went at 3:30 or so. Walked down Pima Arroyo. Breezy. I walked to the water tank. Both BT's at the BT cliffs. I BROKE THE NEW CHAIR! I left it in a garbage can there. Some guy came by when I was at windy rock. Pima Canyon 06/26/2005 Rather late in the afternoon. Its about 8.5 miles to the place. Walked up to the water tank. Had a beer. No people at first and then a few walked up the road. Hot. Went to the ring of stones. Both BT's at the BT cliffs. Pima Canyon 07/03/2005 Just walked up a way. 110 degrees. I drank an arrogant bastard beer and went back. Lots of noisy quail. Pima Canyon 08/28/2005 Just popped in and walked a hundred feet. All but the Gila were seen in the same tree! 107-112. Hurricane heading for New Orleans. Pima Canyon 09/17/2005 Oh, did we hike. We went up Pima Wash and then took the Mormon Loop Trail all the way to the National Trail until we reached Fat Man's Pass. Then we walked that trail for hikers only to the Tunnel. Finally we walked back on the National Trail. I got back clean to the stone houses before I had finished my first fizzy water. Dits steve and I Pima Canyon 10/15/2005 Sally, Dits, Steve, and Tom (That's me!) Went in Dits's truck. My air conditioning is out. I wore my white tennis shoes. (See September 21, 2003) Oh, did we hike. Clean up the Mormon trail and then up the wash to National and down to Fat Man's Pass and then to the Tunnel and back on the National Trail and home on the dirt road. We saw a RATTLESNAKE! He was rattling and seemed to be a diamond back or perhaps a black-tailed or mojave. Slid down Fat Man's Pass. Oh, did we have a big time! Elliot and Cooper Roads 11/06/2005 Christopher, Elena, Sally, Steve, Sonny. SIX HUNDREDTH TRIP 600 600 600. We met out there before we went to Pima Canyon. The gate was open so we walked all the way in and got the OC warbler and junk. Oh, what a BIG TIME we had!!! Pima Canyon 11/06/2005 SALLY, TOM, CHRIS, ELENA, STEVE. We went to the stone houses. I had a beer at the ring of stones at the end of the hike. We saw squirrels and junk. Oh, What a big time we had. Steve met us on the trail. Pima Canyon 12/21/2005 I went to the doctor today and then I talked to Sally on the phone as Fema had wired 10,000 bucks into her bank account and then I went to Pima Canyon for a little while. I just walked down a ways. I have a VIVA IDIOT bumper sticker. Pima Canyon 12/27/2005 I bought a DVD player at the super target or walmart and came over here for a little while. Everyone seemed to be on vacation and so it was very noisy with kids. No one came down the wash, though. Then, I went to see Walk the Line, about Johnny Cash. It stank. Lousy movie. Pima Canyon 01/04/2006 I dropped in on Steve early in the morning after going to E&C Roads before dawn and we went to Pima Canyon. Pima Canyon 03/04/2006 DITS AND I WENT. We walked around back and wound up in the arroyo leading to the water tanks. We loafed around the tanks for a time and then went back. Not as long a trip as usual. We fed the squirrels there at the tank. We went up a side trail. We went to that Mexican place where you buy junk on Avenida del Yaqui and I bought a turquoise mask that looked a little like Noodles. Millie the dog was there. Then we ate at the Yaqui Restaurant which used to be El Taquito. Some hispanic punks were there and made gang signs. What worthless shit they are. Pima Canyon 05/23/2006 I went with my new toothache as my old root canal seems to be failing. I was tired and a little hot. I went a mile down or so, but not as far as the BT cliffs. Lots of rabbits, antelope ground squirrels, rock squirrels, lizards, bees, and one giant chuckwalla on a rock overlooking the road. Pima Canyon 05/29/2006 Steve and I went at 2:00 or so. We went to the water tank. There was a guy from New York with two horses. Steve remembered him and told him he remembered the Queens Burro. Get it? I didn't see the ring of stones on the way back. It was hot. We took my truck. Lots of CHUCKWALLAS peering over the tops of cliffs. How they do that in the burning heat I can't say. We went back and I swam for the first time in Steve's new pool. We saw Sonny. I rushed back to watch Judge Judy at 4:00. I made it on time and watched the two half-hours shows. Pima Canyon 06/03/2006 Dits bailed. Steve bailed. I went alone at 3:00. I went down the arroyo and it was 112 and I stopped by that smiley face 'cause there was shade there. I finally walked out of the arroyo onto the road. I drank two Black Butte porters at the ring of stones. The ring of stones isn't as obvious as it used to be. Pima Canyon 07/29/2006 Went with Dits at 6:00. His son, stephen, came. Hiked clean up the National Trail and to the tunnel and out the Mormon Trail. I wore my white tennis shoes. WE SAW A SPECKLED RATTLESNAKE! It wasn't very hot. Mostly overcast until the end and in the 80s. Saw the ring of stone. Got hot at the end. Pima Canyon 11/26/2006 Steve and I went and he hit 1000 miles finally. We went up the Mormon trail and up that wash and then came back. Pima Canyon 01/03/2007 Steve and I went after we turned in my CD burner at Fry's electronics. Then we went up to the water tank. Then we went to REI and Steve bought a new water filter that pumps. He is very excited. Nice weather. Pima Canyon 03/14/2007 Steve and I went at around noon. Nice. Not many people around. We went over towards the Javelina Trail and then went up an arroyo and looked at a mine. Then we went up on a ridge and down. There was some guy far below us with a hood and sweatsuit. What a nut. Pima Canyon 12/30/2007 Steve and I went and we cooked crappy clam chowder. We crossed the golf course. There were so many cars as it was Sunday. Pima Canyon 01/12/2008 CHOWDER HIKE. Sunday, so there were a lot of people. Pima Canyon 02/16/2008 Sally and I went. This is the day we went to the place on Avenida del Yaqui and bought statues of animals and decorations of fish and junk for my house. Pima Canyon 05/21/2008 What a traffic jam at 8:00 on 48th. Terrible. Yesterday I got a ROOT CANAL. I walked up to the water tank and back. BT Cliffs etc. Pima Canyon 06/15/2008 112 degrees. I went to the water tank. At first it was hard, but then it was okay. I tripped and fell just before the BT cliffs. Messed up the alignment of my ribs and hip. HOTTER THAN HELL. Excellent hike. I photographed the ring of stone. I loved this walk! Pima Canyon 06/21/2008 Thomas Wood and Steve and I went. Oh, we had a big time. War dance at the Ring of Stones. It was VERY hot. We went at 3:00 or so. We looked at the petroglyphs and corn grinding holes. Cactus Wren Alley lived up to its name beautifully and we got both BT's (black-tailed gnatcatcher AND black-throated sparrow) at the BT Cliffs. After our hike, we toasted our adventure over a bottle of Negra Modelo beer in my hybrid room. Pima Canyon 07/27/2008 Went with Steve and Thomas Wood. We went up the arroyo to Fat Man's Pass and back on National. It was a long, hot hike. Afterwards we bubbled around in Thomas's pool. Pima Canyon 05/30/2009 Steve and I went. It was a nice walk. Hot. Going up the sandy arroyo was harder than going down the road. The ring of stones was clearly seen and we noted that it was near a saguaro with an odd arm, so we can find it again easily. Pima Canyon 06/07/2009 Steve and I went. That makes two weekends in a row after ten months of not visiting. Ten months! Could that be? It's true. Not too hot although we went. From the Journal: Steve and I went to Pima Canyon. I noticed my tire looked funny. There was a screw in it. It was Sunday and the only place open was Firestone. The guy there showed me that my tires were all at death's door. It had been 2004 when I replaced them all. He couldn't fix the tire anyway because the hole was too close to the edge and the tire was too old to fix according to company rules. He sold me four more and fixed the alignment. The tires I had were HUGE. The new ones are the correct size. Pima Canyon 06/14/2009 Steve and I went. That makes three weekends in a row. We went Pima Canyon 10/15/2009 I went up at two o'clock and just was going to walk up a ways but then thought, "What the heck?" and went up to the water tank. No one there up the wash. Nice. Good workout. Walked back on the road and missed the ring of stones. Nice day. Antelope ground squirrels. Elliot and Cooper Roads 1/31/2010 Nice, sunny day. I didn't need my jacket. I drove to the back and parked in the legal place for me to park. Steve went to Pima Canyon today. I called Jeff. I worked on the song "Everyone says I love you," a Groucho Marx tune. Pima Canyon 2/28/2010 Not very birdy! Bill Butler and his wife and I went. I met them there at 11:30. It had been raining all morning but radar said it would soon let up, and it did. Bill and I walked to the water tank and the stone houses. We looked at the table-shaped rocks. We saw the BT cliffs, cactus wren alley and all of the other places. Saw the corn holes. Saw the soltice petroglyph and the rainbow people holding hands, the coyote skull place, the place where I used to slide down, AND the RING OF STONES, where I guzzled a WHOLE BOSTON LAGER as I danced around the circle. Actually, Bill spotted the ring of stones first. He was surprised that I slammed down the whole beer in one swig, but that is the Pima Canyon way. Pima Canyon 6/1/2010 Went for a hot hike at around three having stopped at the guitar center. There was a Nashville tele there. It wasn't very hot. Horsetail clouds blocked a lot of the sun too. One girl hiking out when I went into the arroyo and one guy jogged past me at the BT Cliffs. ROCK SQUIRREL, and a BIG OLE CHUCKWALLA at Windy Rock. Ground squirrels too. Lizaards. I saw a big dragonfly and flame whatever they call 'em. Dance at the Ring of Stones with one Boston Lager. Turned me into a monster. Pima Canyon 6/7/2010 110 degrees, so I went to do my hot hike. Not as much ice water as I should have brought. Very very hot. Nice, cool breeze. Up to the water tank and back. Beer at the ring of stones. Last of the notebook. Cactus Wren alley a big success. Pima Canyon 6/19/2010 I brought tons of cold water, beer, and ice, but I didn't really have the ganas to do the hike. I walked up a little past that trail up with the saguaro on the left where there is desert pavement and you're up high. I saw the gnatcatcher there and the canned wren. Then I walked back and drove home. Pima Canyon 6/24/2010 About 113 degrees out. Maybe 114. Went at 3:30. Very good hike. Some cool breezes. I went to the water tank. Not many people at that temp. I had a Tap Room #21 Pale ale at the ring of stones. Felt invigorated by the hike. Very invigorating. Some slim girl jogged by. I was in the swim too like her still alive and seizing life by its antlers. Excellent hike. You see, Sally just left as I helped her withher book on createspace and she left at around two thirty. Pima Canyon 6/29/2010 Went over at 3:30 or so, and it was some 110 or 109 degrees. Lots of water, but I forgot to pack a wet T-shirt in a bag of ice. Boston Lager at the ring of stones. Pima Canyon 7/27/2010 Steve and I went in my truck. We went to the water tank and then back on the road. There was a couple from Baton Rouge that we talked to before we started hiking. Pima Canyon 8/26/2010 It sure RAINED. I went at around 9:30 or so? I went up and set up my chair at the BT Cliffs. It was cool. Not hot at all. Overcast. No one in the arroyo. I studied Spanish for an hour or so reading the Myths and Legends book aloud at times. Then it started to rain. I had my raincoat and sat in the chair being pelleted by rain for forty-five minutes. I couldn't read well because I was afraid I'd get the book wet. The rain stopped and I stayed reading and studying for quite a long time. It's 2:30 now and I've only just got home. I went shopping afterwards though. Pima Canyon 11/17/2010 I went over to the Guitar Center and sold them my harmonizer. I only got seventy-five bucks for it, so maybe it was a mistake. I sold that switch for ten bucks. They got an awful good deal, but now I have some cash and I really didn't need those things. I have a gig and so I must practice. Jan Kegelman sent me seventy-five bucks from the "Ducks" who had got together to give me bread for playing and now I've got 75 and 85 and 50 from Erica, whose boy I taught and I done real well. Shoot, that's 2010 bucks. Now the gig is at the DownUnder Wine bar and if they love me, they'll invite me back for a paying gig. I get a couple of free beers. That will be on November 30, a Tuesday. Very exciting. On a sad note, Steve Orlen died yesterday. He had lung cancer I think. Pima Canyon 12/28/2010 I took a pill. I had fun. Steve and I went, but not quite to the TANK. We ate ham sandwiches and oreos inthe wash. We wore levis. We went back on the road. Short walk really. I went back and talked to Nicaragua. THERE WAS AN ANIMAL TRAIL WHOSE PICTURE I TOOK. Sabino Canyon 1/13/2011 Sally drove me to Sabino Canyon. You know, Jeff coined that phrase the next day. (See phainopepla) There were mountain lion warnings around. A guy told us about the black-chinned sparrow and so we planned to go back early the next morning. Nicer than Pima Canyon with the the gift shop and flush toilets even out in the desert. Pima Canyon 3/17/2011 I went and got my emissions test and passed to my surprise. Then I went with a cupon to get a 14.95 oil change and they said I had to have an appointment and I made one for two o'clock and since I was clean down at elliot and the I-10, I popped over to PIMA CANYON. I had left my guitar in the car. I just went down to the arroyo and came back in ten minutes or so. I passed Guitar Center on the way. Later I went and got the oil change and it took an hour, but it was cheap and they washed my car. Their lobby had Fox News on so I waited outside as I don't line up to drink Kool-aid. It's sickening that it's so common to see that filthy slander on and everyone listening to that poison. Makes you want to go and take a shower. Afterwards, I went and got some Grillers Prime for my new diet, and then I went to Whole Foods and had two beers as I attempted to read Billy Budd. Now I'm home watching news about the Nuclear Reactors, Tsunamis, and earthquakes in Japan. Scott and I are going to meet in Sedona and then go to a concert after which I'll go up to Flag for a few days. No Spanish speaking today as Skype seems to be down in Nicaragua. Pima Canyon 4/24/2011 It's not exactly Pima Canyon, though. Went with the Atheist Meet-up group. It's Easter Sunday. We hiked from forty-sixth street up into the desert on the Javelina and Ridgeway trails. It was a lot of fun. A little hot. Later I had dinner at Steve's and ate too much turkey and taters. Afterwards, I went to THE SANDBAR BAR and hung out with the atheists for a couple of hours. Drank two beers. Al, the organizer of the hike, who has a bad knee and bad fingers had a 167-dollar bill. I happened to see it. He had two bottles of champagne that he shared and beers and after his big bill a new waiter came by and he ordered two margaritas. The atheists began to talk about a member who had left and who is socially quite weird. He's an Iraq war veteran and he grabs woman's wine glasses and drinks them and is weird. They're getting fed up with him although they know him quite well. Pima Canyon 5/26/2011 Steve and I drove down and walked to the stone houses via the road. We walked back in the arroyo. I took a picture of a huge chuckwalla on a rock. He had an orange tail. Got the sage thrasher. No BT sparrows. Pima Canyon 6/7/2011 Steve and I walked to the stone houses on the road and came back in the arroyo. We took that little bit of higher trail on the way back. Rather warm. Some people out there as it was still fairly early but plenty of parking. Drove back to my house. Pima Canyon 6/9/2011 Steve and I went up Desert Classic and over the mountain and down the trail and were soon at the ring of stones. We went to Grouping Hands Bookstore and Trafalgar Joe's. I bought a three-buck sixpack. It was hot. Not so many people there at all. Thought I saw a BT Gnat, but it might have been a verdin. We took my truck. Tonight I will pick Sally up at the airport at 8:14 PM. Elliot and Cooper Roads 6/12/2011 Worked formatting the E&C book and had a discrepancy I had to figure out. It was that I had the epidonax flycatcher in the old life list and had replaced it with the dusky later on. Fixed it but I had to do a print-out first to compare two lists and see what bird didn't match. Got him. COYOTE WALKED ACROSS POND TEN. It was a female. She had big ears and ignored me as I howled at her. WALKED TO NE END AND BACK. HOT. Steve went tot Pima Canyon today and nearly died. Too hot and he got tired. Pima Canyon 6/21/2011 Steve and I walked up to the stone houses on the road and came back on the road. It was hot. I poured diet doctor pepper on my shirt. There was an older guy there from Maryland and he was an Audubon Society member but know absolutely nothing about birds. He had some dumb ideas like the black-throated sparrow was a house sparrow on account of the black breast. I went home and wrote in Spanish. There was some car parked in front of my house behind my cesto de basura that was blocking me partially from getting into my garage. He left after I wrote my my stories. I have a pumpkin growing out back. It's small and orange. Pima Canyon 6/23/2011 Steve and I went in morning and it's now eleven ten and I'm back. It was HOT. Steve thought he saw a roadrunner on top of the BT cliffs but I think it was a cb thrasher. We didn't stop at the bookstore the way we did last time. Pima Canyon 7/2/2011 Went because it was going to be 117 degrees. I brought tons of ice water and even some beer. It was too hot. Even pouring ice water over my head I was hot and tired. I didn't even make it to the water tank. Then a THUNDER head appeared and you could hear thunder. There were clouds and some wind. I went back. There were two guys who went up the road. One jogged all the way up and back. It was HOT! Only three birds even showed up. I FINISHED THE E & C BOOK TODAY. phurst draught. Elliot and Cooper Roads 11/23/2011 Today I will meet Scott and go to South Mountain but I don't have to mention that because it will be on the Pima Canyon bird list for today. I went to E&C early today. Talked to the fireman whose name I can't remember. He has the metal leg. He told me that a lady came by asking how to get rid of the coyotes. I want to get a taylor gs mini. Went to the dentist Monday and later near REI at that taco stand I bit my lip even though I was trying to be careful. Steve and I went to Tempe Schools Credit Union and got accounts so we can give Bank of America the bum's rush. Pima Canyon 11/23/2011 Went with Scott Wagy and Henry. We went to the water tank. Elliot and Cooper Roads 9/17/2012 I bought sibelius first today. I went to E&C roads at two thirty or so. Tomorrow Jan and I will go to Pima Canyon. I worked on Sibelius and I practiced guitar picking. Pima Canyon 9/18/2012 Gosh, I clean forgot to enter this one. Well, I'm putting it in now. Jan and I went. I didn't bring quite enough water and Jan wanted to keep hiking so we went clean up the arroyo and back on the National Trail I guess it was. No snakes. azjsbrad@aol.com Pima Canyon 3/16/2013 I drove down to Guadalupe to get some Spanish comic books. I went in one place and asked and the woman was that Susana from the Spanish Meet-up Group. This was in Tianguis. Not much happening in there. Then I just drove over to Pima Canyon and walked a while. I took two rusted beer cans which I guess I should return for the sake of aniquities of the desert. I used duct tape, but the damned batteries fell out anyway. I went to Fry's electronics to see if my cable for the Line6 Backtrack was busted. It wasn't. They had products advertised on TV. Pima Canyon 10/1/2013 I had to take an injured Gila woodpecker to the east valley wildlife folks to take care of, so I went here while I was at it. Afterwards I went to the Huss Brewery which had once been long ago the Rio Saldo Brewery and where I used to go after hikes on Mineral street and since somebody told me it was open I went and I drank two beers. Oh, it was a long time ago when I used to go there. Pima Canyon 6/5/2016 I entered this nov 26 of 16 as it wasn't in here! Pima Canyon 10/22/2018 I drove over as I haven't been there in ages. You can check to see how long it's been. Oh, I just did; it's been TWO YEARS! CHRIST: 65/2016 I went to the former Tianguis. Not much happening there on a Monday. Two restaurants were open. Another store two. There was daycare and stuff. A few people hanging around. Then I went to Mineral Street and the Huss Brewery was there! It used to be the Rio Salado Brewery or at least that was the brewery there. It was a true blast from the past. How long ago did I go to the Rio Salado Brewery? Well, A search shows I wen two times in 2004 and six times in 2003. 14 and 15 years ago. Christ. I'm 67 + 14 = 81. Oh gosh and it seems like only yesterday/parece que fuera ayer. Today I worked on some chapters of my new book. The chapters are Of such is made the stuff of nightmares, Dream of Twain, the Albino Ringed Turtledove, The Warbler Tree. Pima Canyon 5/18/2019 Chuck wallas all over. Joel
Floyd, Tom Ditsworth, Steve Cole, and Tom Cole.
From 6:30 to 10:30 or so. Saw shrikes for the
first time in ages. No snakes. Antelope ground
squirrels were very tame. Got movies. Pictures.
Fed them nuts. Walked to the stone houses. We went
to Rosita's afterwards. Pima Canyon 10/28/2019 Sally came up to go and Steve and I went too. Climbed up but turned back and didn't make Fat Man's Pass. Climbing the slippery rocks was hairy. I'm not sure I got all the birds noted. Pima Canyon 6/23/2020 Dits, Steve, and I went. We wore our masks. We walked a long way and went back on the road. I drank nothing until the end and then I chugged a quart of water. Not very birdy as you can see. Lots of people on this TUESDAY HIKE because everyone's out of work because of the virus and have time off. There was a bunny. Ground squirrels, and lizards. OH, LOOK AT THE DATE. SAD DAY. Pima Canyon 5/5/2021 Steve and Dits and I went. Afterwards we ate at an outdoor Mexican place on the SW corner of Guadalupe Road and Avenida del Yaqui. OH, I wore my NEW WHITE TENNIS SHOES! Pima Canyon 6/15/2021 Steve and Dits and I went at 6:30 in the morning. We went down to the BT cliffs and back on the road. Saw the ring of stones. I drank two diet colas. Went to the Mexican Restaurant and I ate a taco outside and Steve and Dits ate. Next time I will get back on the freeway to go home. It takes FOREVER the other way. I dropped into Tianguis for the heck of it. A lady came out and talked to me. Not many shops left there but the restaurant, zapetería and an English school are there. Two restaurants actually. I went and turn onto Mineral Street or Drive and saw the HUSS BREWERY. I wish I weren't teetotalling and dieting. Pima Canyon 7/11/2021 JAVELINA WALKING ALONG. Coyotes too. Went up the Desert Classic Trail. Dits and Steve and I. Stopped at the taquería. This time I was smart enough to head home on I-10 which is WEST of the taquería so you turn right on Elliot Road off of Avenida del Yaqui. Pima Canyon 5/9/2023 Steve and I met there for the atheist or humanist meet-up with Sharon. Tim Bedient was there and Jack and nemo the dog. Chico wasn't there cause Sharon said it was getting too hot. Nemo actually got hot. Amador was there. Steve couldn't make it so I went back with him over the desert. I had crappy shoes that were all right on the trail but not on the desert. |
There are 80 life listers at Pima Canyon out of a total of 1306 birds recorded there. BY GREATESTNUMBERSEEN: Gambel's Quail 99 5/18/2019 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 91 5/18/2019 Cactus Wren 89 5/18/2019 Curve-billed Thrasher 89 5/18/2019 Mourning Dove 88 5/18/2019 Black-throated Sparrow 83 6/21/2011 Verdin 64 5/18/2019 Gila Woodpecker 48 10/22/2018 White-winged Dove 47 5/18/2019 Anna's Hummingbird 45 5/18/2019 House Finch 43 10/22/2018 Northern Mockingbird 40 5/18/2019 Ash-throated Flycatcher 33 5/18/2019 Gilded Flicker 32 5/18/2019 Rock Wren 32 5/18/2019 Canyon Towhee 28 9/18/2012 Canyon Wren 28 07/27/2008 Loggerhead Shrike 26 5/18/2019 Turkey Vulture 24 6/1/2010 White-crowned Sparrow 22 3/16/2013 Red-tailed Hawk 21 12/28/2010 Abert's Towhee 18 5/18/2019 Green-tailed Towhee 18 5/18/2019 Phainopepla 15 11/23/2011 Brewer's Sparrow 13 03/04/2006 Northern Flicker 8 05/25/2003 White-throated Swift 8 07/29/2006 Yellow-rumped Warbler 8 11/23/2011 American Kestrel 7 6/7/2011 European Starling 7 3/17/2011 Generic No Bird 7 03/05/2000 Great-tailed Grackle 7 6/21/2011 House Sparrow 7 9/18/2012 Wilson's Warbler 7 05/21/2008 Greater Roadrunner 6 10/15/2009 Costa's Hummingbird 5 05/23/2006 MacGillivray's Warbler 5 9/18/2012 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 01/25/2004 Generic Flycatcher 4 10/15/2009 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 4 8/26/2010 Rock Dove 4 12/21/2005 Townsend's Warbler 4 5/18/2019 Black-chinned Hummingbird 3 5/18/2019 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 06/19/2005 Cliff Swallow 3 05/29/2006 Cooper's Hawk 3 03/04/2006 Dark-eyed Junco 3 01/05/2003 Dusky Flycatcher 3 04/25/2004 Generic Swallow 3 05/20/2005 Great Horned Owl 3 07/27/2008 Peregrine Falcon 3 01/04/2006 Say's Phoebe 3 12/28/2010 Common Raven 2 5/17/1998 Generic Hawk 2 11/06/2005 Gray Flycatcher 2 05/21/2008 Inca Dove 2 09/17/2005 Lesser Goldfinch 2 04/02/2005 Northern Cardinal 2 07/27/2008 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 6/9/2011 Rufous-crowned Sparrow 2 03/01/2002 White-throated Sparrow 2 12/11/2004 Black-headed Grosbeak 1 5/17/1998 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 12/27/2005 Chipping Sparrow 1 04/02/2005 Double-Crested Cormorant 1 11/02/2003 Generic Bird 1 08/09/2002 Generic Blackbird 1 09/28/2003 Golden Eagle 1 03/04/2006 Great Egret 1 06/20/2004 Hermit Thrush 1 10/22/2018 Hutton's Vireo 1 10/22/2018 Lesser Nighthawk 1 06/14/2009 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 03/04/2006 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 05/23/2006 Red-naped Sapsucker 1 10/15/2005 Sage Thrasher 1 5/26/2011 Tree Swallow 1 4/2/1999 Western Flycatcher 1 6/7/2010 Western Kingbird 1 10/15/2005 Western Tanager 1 05/21/2008 |
There are 80 life listers at out of a total of 1306 birds recorded there. LISTED/ALPHABETICALLY Abert's Towhee 18 5/18/2019 American Kestrel 7 6/7/2011 Anna's Hummingbird 45 5/18/2019 Ash-throated Flycatcher 33 5/18/2019 Black-chinned Hummingbird 3 5/18/2019 Black-headed Grosbeak 1 5/17/1998 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 91 5/18/2019 Black-throated Sparrow 83 6/21/2011 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 12/27/2005 Brewer's Sparrow 13 03/04/2006 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 06/19/2005 Cactus Wren 89 5/18/2019 Canyon Towhee 28 9/18/2012 Canyon Wren 28 07/27/2008 Chipping Sparrow 1 04/02/2005 Cliff Swallow 3 05/29/2006 Common Raven 2 5/17/1998 Cooper's Hawk 3 03/04/2006 Costa's Hummingbird 5 05/23/2006 Curve-billed Thrasher 89 5/18/2019 Dark-eyed Junco 3 01/05/2003 Double-Crested Cormorant 1 11/02/2003 Dusky Flycatcher 3 04/25/2004 European Starling 7 3/17/2011 Gambel's Quail 99 5/18/2019 Generic Bird 1 08/09/2002 Generic Blackbird 1 09/28/2003 Generic Flycatcher 4 10/15/2009 Generic Hawk 2 11/06/2005 Generic No Bird 7 03/05/2000 Generic Swallow 3 05/20/2005 Gila Woodpecker 48 10/22/2018 Gilded Flicker 32 5/18/2019 Golden Eagle 1 03/04/2006 Gray Flycatcher 2 05/21/2008 Great Egret 1 06/20/2004 Great Horned Owl 3 07/27/2008 Great-tailed Grackle 7 6/21/2011 Greater Roadrunner 6 10/15/2009 Green-tailed Towhee 18 5/18/2019 Hermit Thrush 1 10/22/2018 House Finch 43 10/22/2018 House Sparrow 7 9/18/2012 Hutton's Vireo 1 10/22/2018 Inca Dove 2 09/17/2005 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 4 8/26/2010 Lesser Goldfinch 2 04/02/2005 Lesser Nighthawk 1 06/14/2009 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 03/04/2006 Loggerhead Shrike 26 5/18/2019 MacGillivray's Warbler 5 9/18/2012 Mourning Dove 88 5/18/2019 Northern Cardinal 2 07/27/2008 Northern Flicker 8 05/25/2003 Northern Mockingbird 40 5/18/2019 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 6/9/2011 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 05/23/2006 Peregrine Falcon 3 01/04/2006 Phainopepla 15 11/23/2011 Red-naped Sapsucker 1 10/15/2005 Red-tailed Hawk 21 12/28/2010 Rock Dove 4 12/21/2005 Rock Wren 32 5/18/2019 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 01/25/2004 Rufous-crowned Sparrow 2 03/01/2002 Sage Thrasher 1 5/26/2011 Say's Phoebe 3 12/28/2010 Townsend's Warbler 4 5/18/2019 Tree Swallow 1 4/2/1999 Turkey Vulture 24 6/1/2010 Verdin 64 5/18/2019 Western Flycatcher 1 6/7/2010 Western Kingbird 1 10/15/2005 Western Tanager 1 05/21/2008 White-crowned Sparrow 22 3/16/2013 White-throated Sparrow 2 12/11/2004 White-throated Swift 8 07/29/2006 White-winged Dove 47 5/18/2019 Wilson's Warbler 7 05/21/2008 Yellow-rumped Warbler 8 11/23/2011 |