Finally reporting on yet another great SEAZ Birding Festival field trip from this past August, this time to amazing Agua Caliente Canyon between Green Valley and Nogales, south of Tucson. (Directions: follow Mt. Hopkins Road towards Whipple Observatory, take a left at the forest service sign for ‘Agua Caliente Canyon.’ Road conditions: rough.)
Tag: Arizona
El Rio (5)
Today on BirdingPI.com, it’s the final post of a lovely morning at El Rio Preserve in Marana, Arizona, back in August:
A Different Morning
Heading back to outside BIRDS HQ in Casas Adobes, AZ this past mid-August, early morning, featuring a gorgeous male Purple Shooting Star (a.k.a. Costa’s Hummingbird): Also Curve-billed Thrasher: [Editor’s note: after this photo shoot, the litter in question (the aluminum can), resulting from localized flooding in a nearby wash, was safely moved to recycling.]
El Rio (4)
Penultimate content from this particular morning at El Rio Preserve in Marana, AZ, featuring lovely Anna’s Hummingbirds: The little black-blue patch just to the rear of the foreleg (see red arrow) is what gives this lizard its name (“Side-blotched”):
El Rio (3)
Back with more from El Rio Preserve in Marana, AZ, this past August! Here’s a Vermilion Flycatcher partaking of a dragonfly exuvia; exuviae are the cast-off exoskeletons left behind after aquatic dragonfly nymphs complete their final molt into winged adults: Coming up “soon,” “exciting” IBS content from southeast Florida, including butterflies, flowers, dragonflies, plants, alligators, […]
Bonus Chat
More Yellow-breasted Chat! Yay!
Time We Had a Chat
Pretty sure this post title has been used before, but what’s more important is this great sighting of an unusually cooperative Yellow-breasted Chat along the de Anza Trail @ Santa Gertrudis Lane, adjacent the Santa Cruz River down from Tubac, Arizona: As may happen during the August monsoons in southern Arizona, the river was flooded […]
Morning at Pintail (4)
Today is the final post of content from a morning in August at Pintail Lake, just north of Show Low in east-central Arizona. All shots White-faced Ibis (non-breeding plumage) unless noted otherwise. As mentioned in previous posts, due to dry conditions and/or a problem with the reclaimed water supply from town, much of the lake […]
Morning at Pintail (3)
Back to Pintail Lake outside Show Low, Arizona, in August, featuring (unless otherwise noted) White-faced Ibis (non-breeding plumage):
Morning at Pintail (1)
No post yesterday due to delays in the photo editing department, but kicking it into high gear today with the first of several posts @ Pintail Lake (& Allen Severson Memorial Wildlife Area) outside Show Low, Arizona, back in August: Mostly, this area is a flat, high elevation volcanic plane with many, many juniper trees: […]