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| Stellar blue jay Likes Ponderosa pines. Lots of them near Sunset Volcano |
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| love his white eyebrows |
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| Curved beak brown thrasher |
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| Gambrel quail |
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| Gila woodpecker: responsible for most of the holes in the saguaros |
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| female pyrrhoxia |
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| black chinned or Anna hummingbird |
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| Costa hummingbird, the main year around resident of Southern Arizona |
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| Female broadbill on nest which had 2 babies under her |
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| male broadbill looks black sometimes |
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| broadbill in better light |
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| western tanager |
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| evening grosbeak Haven't seen one since I was a kid |
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| male pyrrhoxia |
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| cactus wren, 4 times larger than the house wrens we have but has an awful voice sounding like a car trying to start |
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| gilas love ocotillo |
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| long tailed grackle, much bigger than the grackles at home and even noiser |
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gila outside of nesting hole
Birds we saw but could not get good pictures: ladder back woodpeckers, gilded flickers, pinyon jay, and a possible red naped sapsucker (saw this from below and saw a distinctive red splash on its neck.) We saw plenty of mocking jays and 3 kinds of doves. Spotted a possible Scott's oriole (the camera was not around other than a poor iPhone shot). The inn has a resident owl that escaped me seeing it and no road runners.
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Beautiful things. Thank you.
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