Absolutely understand. Have done that plenty of times "hmmm, the color doesn't look quite right, let's try black & white" 😎

Nice!

I like the black & white.

Decided to give one of my somewhat similar (well it has a saguaro cactus in it anyway) shots the same treatment.

This is from the Salt River on Sunday.

Here in southeast Arizona is one of the few places in the United States that you can see them. Apparently they are relatively rare north of the Mexican border.

I was actually taking pictures of wild horses today, but can't resist clicking the shutter for birds when they come in front of my lens.

See, not great #BirdOnAWire

In the end, the threat of rain was a bit too much to overcome, so we just spent a couple of hours at the Gilbert water ranch.

Actually we are not far from there.

At Toka Stick golf course watching a cross country running race.

But we will likely go hiking later.

Not sure what trail she's going to pick, but it's not impossible we end up right where you're at.

Thanks.

Yes, we are lucky to have these birds show up every spring.