Vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) on a tender new velvet mesquite twig (Prosopis velutina). At San Pedro House.
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Handsome wins the day.
Patrick O’Brian, in Master and Commander, 1969.
My first reading was in 1970. Re-reading it now from quarantine island is like finding a long lost friend. Whatever virtues the 2003 film possessed—based on an amalgamation of several of O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin stories—they can’t compare to the pleasures of O’Brian’s engaging storytelling and nimble prose. His knowledge of the age of sail and sailing is colossal, prodigious, and the book is hard to put down. I recommend it.
Treetop G. B. H.
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Rio San Pedro.
Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) at Kingfisher Pond.
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Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) along the trail at San Pedro House, Cochise County, Arizona.
Rock squirrel
(Otospermophilus variegatus) in a San Pedro House cottonwood.
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Dithyramb 