With some free time today before my class, I had time to bird two places, Boyce Thompson State Park and Arboretum near Superior, and the Gilbert Water Ranch, in Gilbert. (Maps at the bottom). Luckily the weather was very nice (mid to upper 70's) and partly cloudy. There was also some initial migration that was beginning... Scenery photos are in the front, folllowed by (mostly) bird shots.
BOYCE THOMPSON ARBORETUM STATE PARK (SUPERIOR, ARIZONA)
Above two: Some nice shots of catcus and scenery at the park. Below a century plant in the park.
Juvenile White Crowned Sparrow
Above and Below: Broad Billed Hummingbird?
This Pied-Billed Grebe does not look happy!
Black Phoebe
Phainopepla
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Rock Wren
Song Sparrow
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (above and below)
Verdin nestbuilding
Faster than a speeding Verdin!
Spotted Towhee
Abert's Towhee
Brown Thrasher (unusual so far west)
Northern Cardinal 
Lincoln's Sparrow
Hermit Thrush
Lesser Goldfinch
Cooper's Hawk
Anna's Hummingbird (above and below)
GILBERT WATER RANCH (GILBERT, ARIZONA)
Curve-Billed Thrasher
Abert's Towhee
Long-Billed Dowitcher (above and below)
Least Sandpiper
Dowitchers feeding in late afternoon
Black-Crowned Night Heron
Northern Rough Winged Swallow 
Northern Shoveler
3 Stilts and an Avocet!
Anna's Hummingbird
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