You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. More evidence today — as if any more is needed — that it is breeding season for the local fauna in southern Arizona. Here’s an image of a female Horned Lark caught
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. It’s breeding season for Burrowing Owls and they’ve become very active recently. I’m accumulating a fair number of images of them. Here’s an image that I made a few days ago. The
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. The other day I posted an image of a White-winged Dove and commented about how I saw its arrival in our neighborhood as a sign of impending summer. Today, I’m posting an
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. The other day I came across a Greater Roadrunner as I was out for a drive in southern Arizona’s farm country. Generally, these birds are pretty shy when I see them and
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. We humans tend to attribute human characteristics to many of the life forms that we encounter. We think of animal behavior in human terms when, to the animal, the behavior means something
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I’ve started seeing White-winged Doves in our neighborhood and hearing their rhythmic calls early in the morning. I associate these doves with the return of hot weather to southern Arizona. In our
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. The season for photographing American Kestrels in southern Arizona is drawing to a close. Our relatively small year-round population of these little falcons is greatly augmented by migrant birds during the autumn
The other day I came across a flock of about 100 White-faced Ibises resting in an irrigated field. White-faced Ibises pass through southern Arizona during their spring and fall migrations. One might encounter a flock of these birds, as I did, but they don’t stay for very long before taking
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Today I’m posting two images of Swainson’s Hawks that I made recently. These are individuals who were perching close to each other when I photographed them. The lighting in the two images
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Here we go again! It’s that season when I drive myself a bit crazy trying to ascertain the minute distinguishing characteristics that differentiate the numerous species of flycatchers that make southern Arizona
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