More Birds!

The rocks along the crest along the crest of the Superstition Mountains are supposed to be Indians who were turned to stone as they fled "the great flood."

Another one of the phainopeplas that pop up on the cacti in the Tonto Wilderness Area -- I think we saw a dozen of them again today --

These two pictures are of a very busy Says Phoebe who has been hanging out on our neighbor's TV antenna. (S)he uses it as a platform for bug catching. It has been here every morning, swooping down every few minutes to catch another insect.

It's been a pretty busy day today. We went to the worship service at Koinonia Mennonite Church in Chandler (barely arriving in time as the GPS took us to SOUTH 2505 in Mesa instead of NORTH 2505 in Chandler!). After we got back home, we decided to take another drive into the Superstition Mountains to see if we could see the Common Black Hawks again (Why do they call something "Common" when it's actually rather rare?) and this time get some pictures. But, of course, the hawks were nowhere to be seen. In fact, we saw very few birds, a ladder backed woodpecker, a cactus wren and finally later in the afternoon, at least a dozen phainopeplas.

On the way home, we ducked into Costco to pick up a Brita filter water pitcher (we're trying not to use so many plastic bottles) as the water in this area isn't the best tasting. I was very nice and bought Forry a Polish Dog for his Valentine's Day dinner...