Wings Over Willcox

05/30/2026

GAMBEL'S QUAIL, one of 9 three-day old chicks, Battiste's Bird Garden, Hereford AZ

(Text and photo by Tony Battiste)

05/29/2026

05/26/2026

Killdeer are present year-round in the Willcox area and can frequently be seen exhibiting this behavior.

05/25/2026

Lots of great birds at Cochise Lake! (55 Birds, including some pictures, in the list below)

Submitted by Steven C and Emily B.

05/25/2026

HUDSONIAN GODWIT, A shorebird species that is rarely seen west of the Rockies, is currently being seen at Lake Cochise, Willcox AZ.

If you decide to chase it, beware, there is also a MARBLED GODWIT also at the lake. See an image in the comments. (Text and photos by Tony Battiste.)

05/25/2026

One of the new gazebos at the Willcox "ponds", a great place to view wildlife and one of the major areas, along with Whitewater, for wintering Sandhill Cranes. Right now they're having visiting rarities.

(photo and text by Steve Wolfe)

01/31/2025

“Our appreciation of cranes grows with the slow unraveling of earthly history. His tribe, we now know, stems out of the remote Eocene. The other members of the fauna in which he originated are long since entombed within the hills. When we hear his call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of the incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.” — “Marshland Elegy” by Aldo Leopold (photo by Gary Smith)