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Desert Wildlife and Plants
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, and other stops. Click on any image to load larger image and start slide show. [Narrative]
Sandhill crane flies at dawk, Bosque del Apache. Cranes fly toward the rising run, Bosque del Apache. A formation of sandhill cranes, Bosque del Apache. Sandhill cranes at dawn, Bosque del Apache. Sandhill crane, Bosque del Apache. Cranes forage as geese pass overhead, Bosque del Apache.
Bosque del Apache. Snow geese, Bosque del Apache. Duck, Bosque del Apache. Cormorants watch as ducks swim by, Bosque del Apache. Hawk, perhaps a Southwestern red tail, Bosque del Apache. Hawk, perhaps a Southwestern red tail, Bosque del Apache.
Hawk being mobbed by a raven, Bosque del Apache. Northern Harrier, Bosque del Apache. Kestrel, Bosque del Apache. Tree full of flickers (two of four shown here), Bosque del Apache. Meadowlark, Bosque del Apache. Meadowlark, Bosque del Apache.
LBB, Bosque del Apache. Pheasant, Bosque del Apache. Pheasant, Bosque del Apache. Pheasant, Bosque del Apache. Pronghorns, New Mexico. Very Large Array in the second-widest of four formations, New Mexico.
Gila Woodpecker, I-10 rest stop south of Phoenix. Red rocks near Sedona, Arizona. Wildflowers near Phoenix. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Weird plant in Houston. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix.
Verdin, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Hummingbird, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Hummingbird, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Cactus Wren, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Butterfly, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix.
Butterfly, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Butterfly, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Butterfly, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Butterfly, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Squirrel, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Quail, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix.
Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. The light was fading at Saguaro National Park near Tuscon when I spotted this fellow ambling along.
Blog Entries for Desert Wildlife and Plants:
April 2005
4/8/2005 Is It Art? - Verdin at Desert Botanical Garden. bird
4/2/2005 Arizona and New Mexico - Bosque del Apache, Desert Botanical Garden. crane, hawk
Blog Entries for other New Mexico/Arizona Spring 2005:
March 2005
3/28/2005 Surprise of the Cactus League - New spring training ballpark in Surprise, Arizona. baseball

 
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