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Best bird: American kestrel (Falco sparverius), Glendale, Arizona.
This is my favorite backyard bird. A mated pair of kestrels spend the first months of each year nesting in a palm tree in my neighborhood. Their favorite perch is on top of our power line pole, where they watch the world and harry the doves in the alley. Yesterday I watched this bird repeatedly chase off a Cooper’s hawk that has been loitering on my block.
This photo is for meklarian. With any luck I’ll follow up with a good predation shot this season (a bird’s gotta eat!), though I’ll be very happy with some kestrel fledgling photos in a few weeks.
Fortune.
Twig sitting.
Probably a female Costa’s hummingbird (Calypte costae). though I’m open to correction by more experienced observers.
Costa’s hummingbird (Calypte costae), at Pioneer Park, Peoria, Arizona.
Umbra.
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Least sandpipers (Calidris pusilla), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.
Pintail flotilla.
Dithyramb 