Saturday, November 17, 2007

Arizona Unidentified Birds

What is this?
What is this?
What is this?
Here is have found a parrot in Mexico, it was even tame enough to go in my hand.
Maybe it is an wild Amazon Parrot?

Every winter we go to Arizona, always finding new birds and other weird animals in the early morning. Here is the story of one of our trips:

It all began when our grandparents moved to Phoenix, Arizona so we decided to go there too. We signed out of school and we started to pack but it surprisingly didn't take very long. So we were ready to go and we were on the road. It took us 4 days and we made many stops to get souvenirs including a fancy wood-carved roadrunner.

By the time we were unpacked it was bedtime. So the next morning at 6 we went birding, but there wasn't any birds. But we continued walking until it was 8 and......There was birds here, there, over there, EVERYWHERE! IT WAS PORING WITH BIRDS! We didn't know which ones to identify first. So I just set my camera to rapidly taking pictures while I spinned around...Of course that wasn't exactly what happened I just took pictures of many birds, so beautiful I didn't know what they were?

We began putting birdseed out in our backyard and soon I found myself buying a 8kg bag of it. We had to refill 9 bird feeders daily. It was a lot of work but it was worth it. I finally got a field guide to Arizona Birds. And we saw quail, finches, hawks, wrens, thrushes, roadrunners, and lots lots more.

Thank you mom and dad for taking me here, IT WAS AN AWESOME TIME!!!!!!!!!!!


1 comment:

Ruth said...

Arizona sounds like a great spot to go in the winter for birding. Sorry, I cannot help with your bird IDs with my Birds of Ontario books!