Birds Around Coldwater Farm

By Garry Rogers @Garry_Rogers

Birds

Photos of Birds that live around my home on Coldwater Farm in central Arizona.  (More about Arizona Birds)

We call our 20 acres Coldwater Farm and we keep it for wildlife and a few furry friends. We moved here in 1997, and since then we have identified more than 125 bird species. Some seen only once, others every year.

Great Blue Heron Hunting Valley Pocket Gophers In the floodplain of the Agua Fria River. Dewey-Humboldt, AZ. Mallards (mostly) on Ice Black-headed Grosbeak Cooper’s Hawk Ring-necked Pheasant Lesser Goldfinch on Barnyard Grass These Red Tailed Hawkes have nested in a Cottonwood tree near the Agua Fria River for more than 15 years. 2011 was the first year no chick was produced. Snowy Egret Thrasher Common Black-Hawk Gambel’s Quail Greater Roadrunner Barn Owl Great Horned Owl chicks Loggerhead Shrike

A male Gila Woodpecker and a female Red-winged Blackbird take a January feeder break. Dewey-Humboldt, AZ.

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