Northern Shoveler

 Horned Grebe

Pied Billed Grebe (above and below)

 Greater Yellowlegs

 Ruddy Ducks

 Blue Winged Teal 

Ring-Necked Ducks

April 8, 2010: Birding Montezuma NWR, New York

A few photos from a nice Spring day at Montezuma NWR

Purple Martin

Green Winged Teal

Ring Necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Redhead

Bufflehead

April 4, 2010: Birding Iroquois, and Braddock Bay

We drove around today to several locations birding in Western and Central New  York....

Iroquois NWR:

Above and Below: Green Winged Teal

Ring Necked Duck

Tinker Nature Preserve: Henrietta, NY

Eastern Bluebird

Painted Turtle

Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

March 7, 2007: Phoenix Area Birding (Encanto Park, Scottsdale) (22 PHOTOS)

I birded the lunch hour at Encanto Park, in search of Harris' Hawks, and nice duck shots. Later in the evening I had a little bit of time, so I checked out some ponds on Hayden Road in Scottsdale. Because of traffic, I didn't get much time for that! The hot weather (mid 80's and sunny) felt nice! Brief look at the Harris' Hawk, but saw lots of Ring-Necked Ducks, Mallards, Canada and Domestic Geese, Curve Billed Thrasher, Mockingbirds, Yellow Rumped Warbler, Verdin, and lots of Gila Woodpecker.

ENCANTO PARK (Phoenix, Arizona)

I got some nice shots of the park's tame Ring-Necked Ducks (who apparently have not flown north yet). See below....

Now for some other bird shots from Encanto Park....

Curve-Billed Thrasher

Northern (Red-Shafted Race) Flicker

Gila Woodpecker

Rock Pigeon

Domestic "Swan Goose"

I also got some nice shots of American Coots.... (below)

Mourning Doves (2 below)

Ponds on Hayden Rd, south of Chapparal (Scottsdale, Arizona)

Chapparal Ranch had lots of Mallards, Coots, and Canada Geese, and a few Ring-Necked Ducks. There were also Double-Crested Cormorants. Some temporary looking ponds a bit further south on Hayden had a wide variety of waterfowl, including Redhead, Canvasback, Coots, Wigeon, Shovelers, Ruddys and Cinnamon Teal. There was also a Great Egret.

Nice assortment of ducks on the ponds (Canvasback, Ring-Necked Ducks, Shovelers, and Coots!) (above and below)

Great Egret

Gambel's Quail (Paradise Rd, Scottsdale)

American Wigeon (McCormack Ranch, Scottsdale) . There were also lots of Cactus Wren, and Gila Woodpeckers in this neighborhood (but I missed the Lovebirds and Harris' Hawk in this area)

ENCANTO PARK LOCATION

Ponds on Hayden Road, Scottsdale Location (South of Chaparral and east of Hayden, it is NOT a Golf Course as labeled)

GAMBEL'S QUAIL (Paradise Rd near 65th in Scottsdale)