We entered Arizona with three days left in the year and we needed 11 new bird species to reach our goal of 500 for the year. Where to go? Madera Canyon at the Santa Rita Lodge was the ticket.
Rivoli's Hummingbird surely is Magnificent!
Amazing he can take the cold - 36 degrees.
Arizona Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpeckers everywhere!
Gila Woodpecker
Birder's were flocking to see this Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Mexican Jay, large, noisy and abundant!
Hepatic Tanager male
Female Hepatic with large grasshopper
Bridled Titmouse
Coatimundi is a daily visitor to the feeders
A little too friendly.
Gould's Wild Turkey
Gould's Wild Turkey is the largest subspecies and is found only in the sky islands of AZ numbering about 1200 birds.
Painted Redstart coming in to nectar feeders
Redstarts also feeding on insects as it warms up.
Yellow-eyed Junco
A single Steller's Jay
American Robin in Pyracantha berries
Greater Pewee, calling and hawking for insects
Elegant Trogan calling along the creek
Trogan actively feeding on grasshoppers
Snow covered Mt. Wrightson in the Santa Rita Mountains
Phainopepla feeding on Mistletoe berries on the right
Last day of the year and time to add some desert birds.
Saguaro National Park
Fish Hook Barrel Cactus
Baby Fish Hook- looks cuddly but it's not!
Cactus Wren on Teddy Bear Cactus
Black-throated Sparrow
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Goal reached - 507 birds for 2022
Coyote looking for it's mate
Found her!
Starting 2023 before dawn we drove the 25 miles up Mt. Lemmon.
Tucson shines brightly below.
Rock Wren
Small wren on large rocks part of the Palisades
More large rocks. God sure loved creating rocks
At 8,000 feet we have the special Abert's Squirrel
Abert's collecting pine cones
At Summerhaven it began to look like winter and the snow started to come down. So we departed and headed down where the police had already closed the road up.
It was raining in Tucson and we stopped at a small lake near our RV Park
Blue phase Snow Goose
American Wigeon drake
American Wigeon hen
Large 8" Bullfrog - lethargic with the cold weather
Vermilion Flycatcher
We drove south to Historic Canoa Ranch where this large flock of Lawernce's Goldfinches were feeding
Cooper's Hawk juvenile also watching the finches
Many Red-tailed Hawks wintering here
View of the Santa Rita Mountains from Canoa Ranch.
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann
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