As I anticipated, I didn’t make it very far into my AZ inventory before I came up with some good yard photos that I think bear posting. I sat in the yard for about an hour and a half this afternoon (5/2/2017) after sighting a Brown creeper through our kitchen window. The creeper escaped the camera but I managed to photograph several other visitors.

This Orange-crowned warbler visited the yard at least five times, finally coming to the bird bath on its third and subsequent visits.  (I’m assuming that it was the same bird but it could have been different birds.)

One of the male American goldfinches in the yard…

One of the female American goldfinches in the yard…

This Rufous hummingbird was hanging around the yard this afternoon.  It’s apparently a female, but the throat originally gave me pause.  It’s too early for a sub-adult, so we’ll have to go with the female designation.  I can’t be sure that the bird in this first photo is the same as the one in the other two photos.