Clear Creek Campground is part of the new Camp Verde IBA (Important Birding Area). This eBird Hotspot ranges from riparian to grassland with a little mesquite bosque thrown in for variety. It’s also great place to go to find not so uncommon birds that may be eluding you like, Green-tailed Towhee, Rock Wren, Virginia’s Warbler, …
Water is a key to birding in Arizona. And the irrigated fields along Bates Road are no exception. In fall and winter the grassy fields attract geese and scattered among these geese you can often find uncommon and rare birds. The fields themselves are surrounded by Cottonwoods and are home to riparian birds so don’t …
A curious thing happened today. I was out at the Camp Verde Sewage Treatment facility taking pictures for this blog when I was approached by a man who wanted to know what I was doing. They are doing some work on the facility and one of the contractors reported me. I told him I was …
Ogden Ranch Road is a bumpy dirt road on the distant outskirts of Cottonwood. It is nine-hundred-eleventy miles long and all you do for hours is drive at 6 miles an hour swinging your neck back and forth looking for birds perched on the top of scrub bushes. It is car-birding at its finest. Any …
Of the three national monuments in the Verde Valley, Montezuma Well is my favorite–and not just because the birding is good. It has a little bit of everything: Sinagua dwellings, varied habitat, natural beauty, and the Well itself is unique in the world. The water that feeds the Well comes from snow that melted around …