Photo Galleries: Winter Southern Arizona 2011 By Barry Zimmer, with photos by Brian Gibbons

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Winter Southern Arizona

Barry-zimmer

Once again our Winter Southern Arizona tour was a huge success. We enjoyed superb weather (highs in the 70s every day) and had great luck with resident specialties, wintering species, and rarities.On our first day we ventured south to the Santa Rita Mountains and world-famous Madera Canyon. En route we detoured through Green Valley where we enjoyed prolonged scope studies of the localized Gilded Flicker, as well as the equally restricted Rufous-winged Sparrow, a flock of Lark Buntings, a Prai... Read More