{"id":14,"date":"2005-12-29T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T02:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/29\/southeast-arizona\/"},"modified":"2021-12-19T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T22:34:53","slug":"southeast-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/29\/southeast-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alison finally got back from Washington, DC, so she could join in the birding I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been enjoying with MaryMargaret, a good friend from Princeton days. This is MaryMargaret\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first real birding trip to the southwest, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been birding pretty much non-stop and seeing lots of lifers, including one of the best <strong>Mountain Plover <\/strong>days I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever seen. The flock at Western Sod was only 17 birds, but they were incredibly close, and watching them doze in the furrows just a few feet away was more than memorable\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand knowing that even those few birds represented a precious percentage of the world population of the species was chilling.<\/p>\n<p>MaryMargaret has decided to beef up her owl list, so we spent some time checking likely spots. Our <strong>Western Screech-Owl <\/strong>is still resident in his box, and we ran across <strong>Great Horned Owls <\/strong>a couple of times. This morning, on our second try, we succeeded in getting good looks at the <strong>Burrowing Owls<\/strong> at the Marana Pecan Grove. And our hike up Scheelite Canyon yesterday morning was typically birdless, until we spotted (inevitable verb) one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most-watched <strong>Spotted Owls <\/strong>perched right above the trail; I walked back down canyon while MaryMargaret lingered a minute or two to enjoy this rare and wonderful sight. And we heard, but unfortunately didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see, a <strong>Mountain (Northern) Pygmy-Owl <\/strong>in West Turkey Creek Canyon while listening for chickadees\u00e2\u20ac\u201din vain, alas. But still not a bad way to finish up the 2005 year list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison finally got back from Washington, DC, so she could join in the birding I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been enjoying with MaryMargaret, a good friend from Princeton days. This is MaryMargaret\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first real birding trip to the southwest, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been birding pretty much non-stop and seeing lots of lifers, including one of the best Mountain Plover days &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/29\/southeast-arizona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Southeast Arizona&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8178,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}