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Another Rufous-backed Robin

I stopped by the plaza a couple of days ago and was watching some robins on the grass when I realized one of them was a Rufous-backed Robin. Since then, I’ve been able to get some pretty good photos. Greg Gilson found a Williamson’s Sapsucker at the golf course but by the time I got there, we could not locate it again. If I could get it, that would be all of the North American sapsuckers for me in one location, the Ajo golf course. I looked this morning for a couple of hours and still couldn’t find it, so I suppose it has left.

Rufous-backed Robin on the sidewalk, getting a drink.
Rufous-backed Robin with American Robin.
A Green-tailed Towhee in an arroyo near my campsite.
The saying is that “any gull is a good gull in Pima County”. Here are 41 Ring-billed Gulls at the ponds. I have been seeing lots of Ring-billed Gulls but other than the Heermann’s Gull that was here earlier, no other species.
Eighty American Avocets, may be a high count for the Ajo ponds. As always, right click on the image and open in a new tap for a larger image.