Time We Had a Chat


Pretty sure this post title has been used before, but what’s more important is this great sighting of an unusually cooperative Yellow-breasted Chat along the de Anza Trail @ Santa Gertrudis Lane, adjacent the Santa Cruz River down from Tubac, Arizona:

Yellow-breasted Chat

As may happen during the August monsoons in southern Arizona, the river was flooded out; this is as close as we could get to the road/river crossing at Santa Gertrudis Lane:

Flooded river crossing
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Wilson’s Warbler (m)
Phainopepla (f)
Vermilion Flycatcher (female or immature)
Phainopepla II
Inca Dove
Inca Dove II
Phainopepla III
Cuckoo II
View of flooded/muddy de Anza Trail