Just add water.
Lemon beebalm (Monarda citriodora) and blanketflower (Gaillardia pulchella), on the wildflower trail at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
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Tag: Phoenix
Three doves, three minutes.
Top: Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura).
Center: White-winged dove (Z. asiatica).
Bottom: Inca dove (Columbina inca).
All observed within 100 meters along the same path, at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Three doves, three minutes.
Top: Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura).
Center: White-winged dove (Z. asiatica).
Bottom: Inca dove (Columbina inca).
All observed within 100 meters along the same path, at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Glochidia, No. 3.
Glochidia, No. 3.
Glochidia, No. 2.
Glochidia, No. 2.
Glochidia, No. 1.
Glochidia, No. 1.
Pop! goes the round-tailed ground squirrel.
Round-tailed ground squirrel (Xerospermophilus tereticaudus), at Papago Park, Phoenix, Arizona. These little imps have an oversized but distinguished name in Spanish: Ardillón cola redonda. For a second time I watched a mother squirrel chase away a much larger roadrunner that got too close to her burrow. I guess the behavior is not as remarkable as I first supposed.
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