Date: 6/1/26 9:16 am From: John Williams (via aznmbirds Mailing List) <aznmbirds...> Subject: [AZNMbirds] Arthur Pack Reg Park- Tricolored Heron this morning at 6:30
There was an adult non-breeding plumage Tricolored Heron at the 6th-7th holes pond. I observed and photographed it for at least 20 minutes. Then I lost it in the cattails and reeds at the east end.
The pond is in the SW corner of the golf course. It can be reached via trails from the Maveen Behan trailhead parking lot by following the trails that skirt the golf course. A trail map is at the parking lot.
Also observed the two Ruddy Ducklings, two American Coot half grown chicks, and half a dozen Neotropic Cormorants that have become regulars.
21 Vermillion Flycatchers were mostly this year’s fledglings. A pair of Purple Martins were together on a saguaro where there had been a successful nest last year.
Wilson’s Warblers left, last seen a week ago.
The hen Lesser Scaup was sunning on one of the 9th hole floats. I have to check but it may be a first record for June at the park.
