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Rufous-backed Robin

This afternoon I got the best photo I’ve ever taken of a Rufous-backed Robin. The Varied Thrush is still here too. The good birds here are also attracting birders. Mark Otnes, who has moved to Tucson from North Dakota, came out this morning. I have been meeting more birders from Arizona and some from California this fall than ever.

Rufous-backed Robin at the golf course pond. Light was nice, I had to crop more than I like but it still looks pretty good. This species is very skittish and hard to approach. Why is its mouth open? Because it is hot, temperature was hovering around 100F this afternoon, record breaking heat again.
Varied Thrush eating an earthworm.
Another Eastern Phoebe has appeared, this one is at the golf course.
This is NGC 772, the Fiddlehead Galaxy. I will need to get a lot more time in on this galaxy before it will look very good. It is twice the size of the Milky Way Galaxy, but it is so far away (130 million light years) it appears small and faint.

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