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Nature Photography
at Picacho Reservoir
Spring 2002
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Picacho Reservoir is one of our
favorite Arizona birding areas.
We exit I 10 at Picacho, picking
up Highway 86 for about six miles.
We turn right on Selma Road and
travel the 2 dirt miles to the dike.
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Here are some of our
favorite images from the
4 day trips we made this
March.
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contact us
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Nature Photography Slide Show At Picacho Reservoir
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FIELD NOTES
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March 9, 2002 Perhaps 35 acres of shallow water. We could have used
the canoe, but would have had to carry and drag it through the muddy edges.
American Avocets and killdeer feeding. Found the heron rookery; spotted mallards and cinnamon teal, but couldn’t identify a third species of duck. Land birds included cardinals, gambel quail,
red tailed hawks, roadrunners, mourning and whitewing doves and turkey vultures. Saw mountain
lion tracks.
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March 17 Water receded about 8 acres. Avocets gone and now, least sandpipers feeding. Yellow headed
black birds everywhere in the cattails; walked to three of the permanent
duck blinds; herons and more herons; marsh wrens; black necked stilts
and unidentified ducks; loud in the depths of the cattails.
March 24 Water perhaps 15 acres. Spotted a great egret hanging out
with the herons; we waded throughout, somehow managing to keep
our shoes on, but hard going in the mucky silt. Saw several single tennis
shoes. Would love to return if/when the reservoir is filled.
last updated April 2, 2002
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