There are several Curve Billed Thrasher couples in the area that have shown signs of building nests in the cholla cactus around the area. I expect to find several eggs in the next few weeks in the nests that these interesting birds have built. Click on the image to enlarge.
I used to hang hummingbird feeders when we lived in California, but they never attracted as many hummingbirds as seem to show up at my feeder here in Arizona. I photographed this little guy a few days ago when he visited the feeder. Click on the image to enlarge.
Several times a month, we take the dogs to the Wickenburg Dog Park. Yesterday, I snapped this photo of Bob coaxing Beethoven (a.k.a. BayBay) to use the teeter totter. He is OK with going up the ramp, but when it starts to teeter, he jumps off. One of these days he’ll get it. Cabela looks on because there is a treat in store for somebody. Click on the image to enlarge.
I mentioned that I would publish one of the Javelina pictures in yesterday’s hummingbird post. Here is one javelina of about seven in the herd standing just behind the RV drive. I’m glad that they don’t eat the rosemary ground cover.
The rosemary ground cover is in the foreground with some creosote bushes and cholla cactus behind the critter. A “Christmas cactus” with red berries is on the right. Click on the image to enlarge.
Last evening, several javelina (collared peccaries) wandered into the back yard, so I grabbed my camera and went out on the RV drive to take some pix of them. Suddenly, a hummingbird came to the feeder just a few feet from where I was standing. It sipped and hovered there for about thirty seconds. I took a bunch of shots of it and this one turned out pretty good. Click on the image to enlarge.
I’ll post photos of the javelina later.
I took this photo of a Desert Mallow wildflower as we walked back from the car show. There was a honey bee deep in the bud collecting nectar. Although today was a beautiful spring-like day, the forecast calls for a chance of showers tonight and tomorrow, with cooler temperatures in the wake of the rain passage. Click on the image to enlarge.
We were out walking the dogs on a beautiful spring-like day today, when a large bird flew across the road about 200 feet east of us. We couldn’t get a real good look at it, but I think it was the Harris’ Hawk that we have seen hanging around the area this winter. The little birds that are attracted to our bird feeder out back are scarcely seen when this raptor comes around.
I took this picture of the hawk in flight a few weeks ago near our back yard. Click on the image to enlarge.