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Coon Bluff

TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, ARIZONA

33°32’49.95"N 111°38’46.61"W

Coon Bluff, the third of nine designated fee sites on the 13-mile stretch of the Lower Salt River Recreation Area, is the best general birding site in the stretch. It is within easy reach for visiting birders with a day to spend in the Phoenix area, and it can be productive at any time and season of the year except middle of the day (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) May

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