My first trip to Watson Woods in Prescott was almost a year ago. It seems that every one of my visits since to this restored native preserve along Granite Creek and adjacent Watson Lake has guaranteed a breakthrough moment in my birding adventures.
The list of exciting new encounters is still growing as attested in my finding my first western tanager in the park over the weekend. But a year's time has brought many other firsts, including bald eagles, wood ducks, white-faced ibises, violet green swallows, summer tanagers and blue grosbeaks.
And as the following collection of photos from Sunday demonstrate, any walk in these woods is a feast for the nature lover.
The list of exciting new encounters is still growing as attested in my finding my first western tanager in the park over the weekend. But a year's time has brought many other firsts, including bald eagles, wood ducks, white-faced ibises, violet green swallows, summer tanagers and blue grosbeaks.
And as the following collection of photos from Sunday demonstrate, any walk in these woods is a feast for the nature lover.
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| Male Wilson's warbler. |
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| Female Wilson's warbler. |
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| Blue grosbeak. |
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| Yellow warbler. |
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| Male Bullock's oriole. |
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| Red-tailed hawk. |
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| A type of flycatcher, probably a western wood pee-wee. |
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| One of several deer crossing the trail. |
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| Violet-green swallows. |
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| Distant bobcat crossing the Peavine Trail. |
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| Male western tanager. |
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| Male wood duck with two other unidentified ducks. |
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| Female ladder-backed woodpecker. |
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| Cordilleran flycatcher. |
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| Yellow-rumped warbler. |
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