Brown creeper (Certhia americana), at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, Cochise County, Arizona.
Tag: Cochise County
Ripening fruit of Arizona madrone (Arbutus arizonica), at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, Cochise County, Arizona.
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Garden Canyon pictographs at Fort Huachuca in Cochise County, Arizona. These raptor images were made by Apache people sometime around 1700. The pictograph panel is on the underside of a soot-blackened rock shelf and comprises about 40 figures, of which soaring birds are the most recognizable feature.
Midas touch.
Sonoran gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer affinis) basking in a sandy arroyo, San Pedro House, Cochise County, Arizona.
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Yarrow’s spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) at Miller Peak Wilderness, Coronado National Forest, Cochise County, Arizona.
This is a sky island species, distributed in isolated, high altitude pockets in the Madrean mountain ranges of southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora. Its scales make me think of chain mail made of copper.
Douglas fir cones (Pseudotsuga menziesii), at Miller Peak Wilderness, Coronado National Forest, Cochise County, Arizona.
This is one of my favorite pines, because the cones come complete with little dragon tongues.
A gray day, but the colors were bright. On Garden Canyon Road at Fort Huachuca, Cochise County, Arizona.
What? Did you think it was all saguaros and Gila monsters here?
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