My beloved Santa Ritas

 Pine siskin

White-throated sparrow

Golden Eagle circling high

The near full moon of December

Up the San Francisco Peaks and then to the east for Bison

Portraits of Coue's white-tailed deer

Madrone fruit

Arbutus arizonica

The geese of Canada

Feathered grazers

Cackling goose

Wild horses of the Salt River

Back at Tres Rios

White-faced ibis

Grassland birds of las cienagas

Baird's sparrow

White-tailed kite

short-eared owl

(All photos courtesy of Steve Valasek)

desert scrub south of three point

 Baboquivari mountain wilderness

Great purple hairstreak (Atlides halesus)

Ferruginous pygmy owl