It’s the BirdingPI.com “late-winter break,” with staff escaping the cold/snowy conditions of Erie County, Pennsylvania this week for “somewhere else.” Maybe somewhere with even worse weather, like Buffalo or Rochester. Anyway, hopefully someplace with interesting nature/bird activity.
The website’s also taking a break from the snow and cold, instead featuring summer 2024 content from Arizona, starting here with an early morning visit to great Canoa Ranch outside Green Valley.
Canoa Ranch a.k.a. Historic Canoa Ranch is a public park w/ historic ranch buildings, interpretive signs, etc. As a birding destination and Pima County ‘hot spot,’ it features a pond, adjacent wetlands, nice trails and benches, all tucked into an area of otherwise unremarkable scrub brush desert, e.g., Mesquite trees, dry grass, that sort of thing. Also a perimeter of barbed wire fence = great for perching birds like swallows and kingbirds.
