Difficulty: Easy. Flat walking on groomed trails or roads. Shade structures available. No bathroom on-site but we’ll stop before/after. Drive time to location approximately 80 minutes.)
This outing, sponsored by WINGS Birding Tours, will explore Cochise Lake where we should find a wide variety of shorebirds and is also the best festival opportunity for Scaled Quail. Likely shorebird species include Black-necked Stilt, American Avocet, Wilson’s Phalarope, Long-billed Dowitcher, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Western, and Least Sandpipers. The lakes also play host to an array of migrant swallow species, as well as birds of the open grassland like Swainson’s Hawk, Chihuahuan Meadowlark and Lark Sparrow. With sometimes hourly turnover nearly every visit during migration has a good chance of turning up something unusual. This will be a relaxed paced half-day trip with limited walking on level surfaces. Limited to 9 participants.
Scaled Quail, Ned Harris