In late summer of 1998 and 1999, I observed a small colony of approximately ten Orange Bishops (Euplectes franciscanus) in north Phoenix, Arizona. The colony was in a grassy, tree-lined, partially channelized desert wash in a highly urbanized area south of the intersection of First Drive and Greenway Parkway. A small amount of standing water was present through most of the year. In June of 2000, the 1998–1999 site was still occupied, and I located a second group of six birds approximately 1.1 km east of the first location, in a small cattail marsh with surface water in the same wash, southwest of the intersection of Seventh Street and Greenway Parkway.