Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area in McNeal, Arizona.

[mike_c]

January 13. It was a cold morning!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thanks for your beautiful photo, my dear mike_c . . .

Not only does it look cold, it WAS cold!

[mike_c]

8. I was only there for about an hour

It was chilly.

[jfz9580m]

2. Pretty

What birds are those mike_c ?

These are in the area:

https://www.azgfd.com/location/whitewater-draw-wildlife-area/

Common birds in the area include sandhill cranes, blue-winged, green-winged, cinnamon teals, northern shovelers, northern pintails, scaled and Gambel’s quail, western, eared, pied-billed and Clark’s grebes, great blue heron, black-crowned night heron, white-faced Ibis, red-tailed, Swainson’s, Cooper’s and Harris’ hawks, northern harrier, sora, many kinds of shorebirds, mourning and white-winged doves, greater roadrunner, barn, long-eared, burrowing and great horned owls, vermilion flycatcher, loggerhead shrike, Bendire’s, curve-billed and crissal thrashers, many kinds of sparrows, red-winged and yellow-headed blackbirds.

I struck out those I think are unlikely candidates..Sadly my knowledge of birds (and most other things) is very limited :-/. I try though…

[mike_c]

5. most are sandhill cranes

They're very noisy!

[irisblue]

3. Beautiful

[mike_c]

6. thank you!

[George McGovern]

4. Very nice mike_c! Thanks for withstanding the cold.

[mike_c]

7. thanks, George!

I'm glad you like it!

[Easterncedar]

9. Amazing beauty

The sky is so clear and close

[mike_c]

10. thank you!