#Glendale Recharge Ponds

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Great egret / garza blanca (Ardea alba).

At the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

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I can always count on seeing Great Blue Herons at Glendale Recharge Ponds. — Nature Photography by Shirley Anne Ramaley I can always count on seeing Great Blue Herons at Glendale Recharge Ponds. — Nature Photography by Shirley Anne Ramaley

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Long-tailed Duck

Glendale Recharge Ponds, AZ, 1-19-17

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Mad Rush to the Thrush

Mad Rush to the Thrush

Friday we had intended making the trip up to Glendale Recharge Pond to get a Snowy Plover and Least Terns that were hanging in the area but something diverted our plans drastically. As I waited for Derik to get hoe from work I perused the Arizona Birding Facebook page as I do when something caught my eye.

Dropping just two minutes earlier a post stating that a Clay-colored Thrush was spotted…

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White-faced ibis / ibis cara oscura (Plegadis chihi). These birds are in non-breeding plumage, but during breeding season they present with a bright white mask and pink legs.

At the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

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Stilt walking.

Black-necked stilt / monjita americana (Himantopus mexicanus) wading in the shallow water at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

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Long-billed dowitcher / costurero pico largo (Limnodromus scolopaceus) at the Glendale Recharge Ponds.

Distinguishing long- and short-billed dowitchers always confounds me, but I'm going with long-billed. All of the birds I saw were rather stocky and rotund.

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A different kind of bird-on-a-stick: Great blue heron / garza morena (Ardea herodias) on a power line pole at the Glendale Recharge Ponds.

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The Glendale Recharge Ponds at sunrise. The ponds are a remarkable wildlife oasis within view of the Cardinals football stadium and Top Golf. Metro Phoenix is full of these odd juxtapositions.

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Spoonbill sunrise.

This has been a notable year for vagrant bird species in southern Arizona—locally rare birds that have no business being here, but that have made their way here because of wind and weather, or the general drift of warming climate, or by smoke in the air, or by some other cue that we simply can’t discern.

A great example are the roseate spoonbills (Platalea ajaja) that have been spotted at the Glendale Recharge Ponds and at Water Ranch in the metro Phoenix area. These photos are from Glendale, where three individuals have joined a large assemblage of about 100 great egrets (Ardea alba) and snowy egrets (Egretta thula).

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Recent wading birds.

From top: great egret (Ardea alba); greater yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca); white-faced ibis (Plegadis chihi, in non-breeding plumage); black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus). All at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona. 

Please click any photo in the set for enlarged views. 

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Pas de deux.

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Side by side. 

Size comparison of a snowy egret (Egretta thula) and great egret (Ardea alba), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona. 

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Female great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) in the reeds at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona. 

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Male and female red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) on curly dock (Rumex crispus), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona. 

The female (bottom photo) has just a slight hint of red epaulet feathers  ―  a field mark I had never noticed before taking this photo. 

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