Tags: It’s time we talked about the elephant in SE Arizona’s room – Common Black Hawks. 
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I met New Jersey birder Daniel Brill at Santa Rita Lodge today, and he showed me a couple of photos of a ‘very large, dark-backed’ gull that he watched in flight at Lake Cochise on Monday 8 September. Black-capped Gnatcatcher is a rare bird in the USA, only found in a handful of mid-elevation canyons in southeastern Arizona, and far from regularly. I got to see a pair of them today, in Florida Canyon. I located them by first hearing the call, which is just about diagnostic. Just for a bit of fun, the less-than-ideal views and poor photos I got of today’s male gave me an idea. Here’s a scenario in which you can identify a distant, non-calling Black-capped Gnatcatcher without seeing the all-important undertail… as long as it’s a breeding-plumaged male!
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