I’m still at Granite Gap. I’ve been making trips down to Cave Creek and the Paradise area. My bird list for 2024 keeps growing, now at 225, compared to 155 at this time last year. I’ve been doing some astro too, I’m working on a very faint planetary nebula called Abell 35. It is not ready to show just yet.
An Elegant Trogon I found in the South Fork of Cave Creek. I could hear it calling in a grove of oaks but couldn’t see it. Suddenly it flew out and landed right in front of me. A female Arizona Woodpecker at the George Walker House in Paradise. I also got a Juniper Titmouse and a Band-tailed Pigeon, both of which were new for the year. An Olive-sided Flycatcher that I got on my walk this morning, also new for the year. This was at Granite Gap. Also from my walk this morning, a Round-tailed Horned Lizard. I’m still looking for the Texas Horned Lizard. I got pretty excited at first when I found this one, but it turned out to be a Round-tailed. A Striped Plateau Lizard. These are common in the Chiricahua Mountains and Peloncillo Mountains, but are not found anywhere else in the United States. Butterflies have been hard to find, other than the usual Checkered Whites and a few other species. This morning I got this Elada Checkerspot, I haven’t seen this species for a long time.
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A great collection. A number of those would be lifers for me.
Great photos Doug, sounds like you picked up a lot of birds for the year-list out east of the desert. The Trogon is particularly nice, and I have never seen an Arizona Woodpecker.
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A great collection. A number of those would be lifers for me.
Great photos Doug, sounds like you picked up a lot of birds for the year-list out east of the desert. The Trogon is particularly nice, and I have never seen an Arizona Woodpecker.