On Saturday April 7th, Matt and I stopped at Brian's place in Kachina Village for Evening Grosbeaks, life birds for Matt. We then drove into Oak Creek Canyon and stopped for the next target bird, American Dipper. This bird had been so easy to see in the past three months, but alas a Easter weekend crowd had replaced the bird and we did not find it. We did not see any birds that had not been around the previous weekend but the House Wrens and Painted Redstarts were both very visible.
We drove down the canyon and stopped next at the creek opposite Encinoso Picnic Grounds where we had Common Black-hawk, Matt's final target bird and fourth lifer for the weekend (he had Pinyon Jay at Pam's on Friday morning). This was followed by two more black-hawks along the road near Midgely Bridge and a pair at Page Springs. Lucy's Warblers were both plentiful and full song at Page Springs and I also saw my FOY Western Kingbirds.
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