This is a hard bird to get a picture of. They don’t come in for regular bird feeding, but like to hang out on high trees and branches. Their under feathers have white on them.
I always see them on the grounds of DeGrazia’s Gallery here in Tucson. This photograph shows how the gardeners there have taken the Century Plant stalks, after the plants die, and put them against the fence. The Phainopepla love them.
Ted DeGrazia’s gravesite in Tucson Arizona, on the grounds of the Gallery In the Sun.
Arizona Bird Watcher 