El Rio (4)


Penultimate content from this particular morning at El Rio Preserve in Marana, AZ, featuring lovely Anna’s Hummingbirds:

Anna’s Hummingbird (m)
View towards El Rio Preserve from adjacent scrub desert
Not a Purple Gallinule
Red-tailed Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk in flight II
Cooper’s Hawk III
Verdin
Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)
Verdin II
Lizard II

The little black-blue patch just to the rear of the foreleg (see red arrow) is what gives this lizard its name (“Side-blotched”):


Verdin III

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