Saturday, June 3, 2023

Saguaro Blooms

 


Saguaro blooms in May mean that summer in the desert is here. Within just a week or two, the blooms fade, and then the fruit will grow. The Thong O'odham and ancestors eat the fruit. Amazingly, the saguaro has tiny, tiny seeds. Birds like the Gila woodpecker and cactus wren love to make their nests in holes in the saguaro. And it grows nowhere else on earth but here in the Sonora Desert.

Monday, February 13, 2023

Sandhill Cranes

The wonderful sandhill cranes stop briefly in Arizona on their migration north to their breeding grounds. I've been saying for about 30 years that I want to go see them. This year, I did. 







Sunday, February 5, 2023

Urban Birding

 


Redhead rampage.