Ok... if you have not been to southern AZ put it on your list. Special place. Great weather. Great birds. Great scenery. Read on if your want..feels like a holiday "boast" letter. 10 days, SE AZ. There is a fine birding book of the area, 2011 updated. Flew to Phoenix, Portal on east, Bisbee, Madera Canyon, last was Patagonia. 144 species on a family trip. I had 9 lifers, Will ~ 25. This will be a list of highlights (minus Pine siskin etc).in chronological order. First's: Harris' Hawk, Bendire's Thrasher, Ross's Geese, Lucy's Wa, Gray Vireo, Elegant Trogan, Bl-thr- Gray Wa, Cassin's Kingb, Zone-t Ha. Others: Gt-t Grackle, Phainapepela, Pyroloxxia Gambel's Quail Cactus Wr, Canyon Wren Eared Grebe Go Eagles Swainsons Ha, No Harrier, Common Black ha, Gray Ha, Am Kestrel, Cooper's, Sharpie (like the feeders), Merlin, Peregrine, Osprey, White-tailed Kites, Roug- Legged, Bl Phoebe...Say's too Road Runner Sparrows: Bl throated, Lincolns, Song, Rufous winged, White Crowned, Fox. Brewer's, Vesper, Chipping, Savanah, Swamp, Lark, White-throated, Grasshopper Brewer's BB Ducks: many found on wastewater plants as there is water ! No Shovelers, GWTE, Cinn Te, Am Widg, Ruddy Du, Mex Duck, Buffleh, Ring-necked,Lesser Scaup, Redhead, White-w dove, Co Ground Dove, Yellow-rumped Wa/ Audubon's, Bl - neck Stilt, Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, Least Sp, Gr Egret. Vermillian Flyc, No-beadless Tyrannulet Woodpeckers: AZ, Ladder-backed, Gila Woodp (Heela), Acorn Mex Jay, Stellar's Ja Bridled Titm Hummers: (not enough but special) "Paton's is famous": Broad-billed(many !), Bl-throated, Magnificent, Blue-throated, Anna'a, Costa's, Violet-crowned. White-thr Swifts, Purple Martin Towhees: Canyon, Spotted, Abert's, Green-tailed Painted Redstart, Wilson's Wa, Orange-crowned Loggerhead Shrikes Yellow-eyed Junco Crissal Thrasher Bushtit Hutton's Vireo Townsend's Solitare Hepatic Tanager, female Bullock's, Scott's Orioles Lazulia Bunting Bl-cr Nightheron Sparrows are lots of work, but lots of fun. April would be better for flycatchers, vireos, more hummers and some other rare birds. Good butterflies. So...(I type poorly, sorry)..if anyone ventures out there, I have a few spots to share. Now..back to UV birding ! BS Bill Shepard Project Coordinator CT River Birding Trail 2360 Academy Road Thetford Center, VT 05075 Home: 802 785-2855