Santa Rita Mountains

Approaching the mountains

Within Madera canyon

A view into the Sonoran desert below

Riparian home of the Elegant Trogon

View from the southern foothills

Oak foothills

Old Adobe structure in the desert

Arizona woodpecker

Yarrow's spiny lizard

Sonoran mud turtle

Along Sonoita Creek

The creek at the nature conservancy

Lincoln's sparrow

Pine siskin

Introduced Eurasian collared dove

White-winged dove

Broad-tailed hummingbird

Bullock's oriole

Scott's oriole

Hispid cotton rat

Room with a View: life down south part 1

My view

Patagonia lake

Mount Wrightson

Sonoita Creek

New green of spring

Merriam's oak

Surrounded by fires

White-breasted nuthatch

Black-chinned sparrow

Black-throated gray warbler

Pyrrhuloxia

Vermillion flycatcher

Mexican ducks

Cooper's hawk

Elegant earless lizards

Desert grassland whiptail

Coue's whitetail deer

Evening of the supermoon

Evening kettle of migrating Turkey Vultures

The Super Moon

Trip down the Verde River

A glimpse down the Verde River

Tracks of a River Otter

Site of ancient ruins

Cave dwelling

Pottery shard found within the ruins

A Common Black Hawk nest

A Common Black Hawk days after arriving from spring migration

Northern Rough-winged Swallow at rest