Getting Two Lifer’s in One Day!
Heather and Peter Rusty Blackbird Sunday Peter and I took my niece, Heather, to Phoenix to attend a conference. We wanted to show her some of the natural beauty of our area. Saturday we toured her around the Prescott lakes, introduced her to birding and later shopped on Whiskey Row. Sunday we stopped in Anthem hoping to see the Rusty Blackbird, a rarity in Arizona and a lifer for Peter and I. We had been to the community lake three times before hoping to add this to our life list and this time we saw it! Looking for one bird of a kind is always a challenge and it helped to have three pair of eyes. Then we went to Tempe Town Lake because there was a Red-necked Grebe sighted and that also would be a lifer for me. Tempe Town Lake is a beautiful community center. In fact, there were three major events happening on the weekend. We just wanted to stand on the pedestrian bridge to look for the one Red-necked Grebe! ...