You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. On my recent day trip to San Simon in Arizona’s southeastern corner I came across a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk perching atop a nut tree (pecan or walnut). As I approached the hawk
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. The other day I posted a couple of images of a Ferruginous Hawk that I’d encountered while it perched close to the ground on a piece of farm equipment. Today I’m posting
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I recently made a day trip to the hamlet of San Simon in Arizona’s extreme southeastern corner, more than 2 1/2 hours from our Tucson home. It is an agricultural area, almost
Recently, I was advised by a friend that he’d seen a pair of American Kestrels perching on a Saguaro Cactus. Kestrels are not social birds and one rarely sees two of them perching in close proximity to each other. It could have been chance but there was another possibility, and
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. The farmlands of southern Arizona are a gigantic checkerboard of dirt roads, nearly all of them absolutely straight and running either east-west or south-north. A couple of weekends ago, I made a
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I’m always on the lookout for Merlins during the autumn and winter months when these graceful little falcons migrate into southern Arizona from more northern latitudes. However, looking and finding are two
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I’ve been seeing Loggerhead Shrikes fairly frequently this past week or so. These little predators are year round residents of southern Arizona, but one never sees large numbers of them. Seeing more
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Ring-necked Ducks, likely close relatives of the Redheads whose images I featured a couple of days ago, are another migratory duck species that will soon be leaving our area for breeding habitat
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I was very fortunate a week ago to capture images of a male American Kestrel just as he took off. Kestrels give little or no warning when they take flight. It was
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. It’s been a few weeks since I posted images of Redheads, which, in my opinion, are among the most beautiful of all of the duck species that winter in southern Arizona. These
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