Pima County – Dithyramb

Green flash.

Green-winged teals at the Avra Valley Water Reclamation Facility in Pima County, Arizona.

Please click photo for an enlarged view of their emerald green specula feathers.

Birds. Wires.

Scenes from a day of bird watching with @meklarian. In Pima County, Arizona.

Organ Pipe sunrise.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pima County, Arizona.

Rivoli’s hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens) at Santa Rita Lodge, Madera Canyon, in Coronado National Forest, Pima County, Arizona.

I am in the throes of a kitchen remodel, and haven’t lifted the camera in a few days. There will be fresh material soon, I hope!

Rivoli’s.

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Another view of an elegant trogon (Trogon elegans), showing the silky iridescent greens and blues of its mantle feathers. At Madera Canyon in the Coronado National Forest, Pima County, Arizona.

Elegant trogon (Trogon elegans), at Madera Canyon in the Coronado National Forest, Pima County, Arizona.

I spotted several of these magnificent birds on both days of my stay at Santa Rita Lodge. This colorful specimen is a male. I saw, but was unable to photograph, his female companion.

And I heard more ETs than I saw. As they move up and down the canyon as the temperatures rise and fall during the day, they announce themselves with a repetitive bwrrr bwrrr bwrrr call, like the insistent barking of an agitated chihuahua. You can here samples of their sounds here.

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Watering hole.

Coatimundi (Nasua narica, the white-nosed coati), at Santa Rita Lodge, Madera Canyon, in Coronado National Forest, Arizona.

Please click photo for an enlarged view.