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November leps: Queen (Danaus gilippus).

November leps: Checkered white (Pontia protodice).

Those eyelashes!

Maybe she’s born with it.

Arizona rainbow cactus (Echinocereus rigidissimus), in a rocky cleft, at Parker Canyon Lake.

¡El Hermano Mayor vela por ti!

Views of the Fort Huachuca-based Tethered Aerostat Radar System. TARS uses downward-facing radar to surveil the border for low-flying aircraft.

At its maximum altitude, the aerostat is visible from just about any location in Cochise County. Like @textless and @inlandwest, I have begun using it get my bearings. If I can see it to the east of me that means I have a very long way to go to get home.

View of Huachuca Peak from Parker Canyon Lake.

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Untitled.

G. B. H.

This great blue led me around the lake perimeter at Parker Canyon. Whenever I got within about 50 feet of him, he would take off and find a new spot further down the shore. It surprises me that they are so skittish, since no one in the history of the world has ever wanted to eat a great blue heron. Even so, people create their own kind of menace for these birds. Parker Canyon Lake is a popular fishing destination, and tackle and debris get left behind. This heron has a tangle of monofilament fishing line wrapped around one leg.

Pied-billed grebe, making waves.

Podilymbus podiceps, at Parker Canyon Lake, Coronado National Forest, Cochise County, Arizona.

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Clairvoyance.