@thomasfuchs tanager?? (I love how some birds are named so descriptively like "Orange-dipped spotty head" but others are like "Black-winged thrush" and it could be either.)
@thomasfuchs Tucson is the farthest east that I lived ('90s), and in other birds, I was surprised to discover that the cardinal (red-crested finch) ranges so far west.
It's a very lively desert.
Thanks for the bird! I think that might be a mesquite tree it's sitting in.