3:10 To Yuma

Don’t quite know how a staff member ended up in Yuma, Arizona for BirdingPI.com’s “late winter go somewhere other than Erie County” week. Maybe it’s for the ‘salt free’ water? In any event, about a 3-hour, 10-minute drive from Tucson/Phoenix to Yuma, at the border of both California and Mexico, along the Colorado River.

Welcome to ‘salt free’ Yuma
Yellow-rumped Warbler

Main birding ‘hot spot’ (hot area?) in Yuma seems to be centered around the Colorado River, @ Yuma West and Yuma East Wetlands. Lots of fun desert/riparian bird activity esp. Yellow-rumped Warbler and Black Phoebe.

Colorado River, view downstream from Riverside Park
Yuma East Wetlands
Male Anna’s Hummingbird in shade
Yellow-rumped Warbler II
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Yellow-rumped Warbler III
Black Phoebe looking upwards
Warbler IV
Black Phoebe II
Black Phoebe III
Warbler V
Gnatcatcher II
Warbler VI
Yellow-rumped Warbler VII
Gnatcatcher III
Warbler VIII
Black Phoebe on ground
Colorado River view upstream
Warbler IX
Warbler X
Black Phoebe on stump
Warbler XI
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher IV
Another view downstream of Colorado River
Warbler XII
Another male Anna’s Hummingbird
Warbler XIV
Warbler XV
Black Phoebe VI
Gateway Park, Colorado River, & Interstate 8 passing into California
Penultimate Yellow-rumped Warbler
Rock Pigeon carrying nesting material
Final Warbler

2 thoughts on “3:10 To Yuma”

  1. Paul Edwards

    This Staff Member did not participate in the Yuma birding outing. He thought the 3:10 was a fictional train and didn’t bother to board it!

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