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”):
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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, […]
Another Strange Lake
Before more content from along the de Anza Trail @ Santa Cruz River south of Tucson, Arizona, it’s part 1 of a great visit to El Rio Preserve in Marana, just northwest of Tucson straddling Interstate 10. Like some other birding ‘hotspots’ in the area, El Rio Preserve features a shallow, artificial lake fed with […]