Mary Ann and I like to walk for exercise at Arizona State University Research Park. It’s close to our house (about 1.5 miles), and there are three small lakes to walk around (it’s a 2.3 mi walk, and takes 34 minutes). We saw Lark Sparrows there, and I don’t have any good pictures of a Lark Sparrow, so we decided to go to the park for a photography trip.
We went on April 19 and didn’t see any Lark Sparrows, and tried again a week later, and still no luck. Unfortunately, we went too late in the year, and they have migrated south for the summer. I got pictures of some of the common birds on the lakes. It was springtime, so there were a lot of goslings and ducklings, which were pretty cute.
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Nice shots. Interesting how the green heron is so different than the great blue. Cow bird? What the heck?
Thanks. One big difference is the size. The Green Heron is about 17″ and the Great Blue is about 50″. The Brown-headed Cowbird is pretty common in North America. One interesting trivia: the Brown-headed Cowbird lays its eggs in a ‘host’ nest, and leaves them to raise the chicks, sometimes at the expense of the hosts own chicks.