Macro Photography Queen butterfly on purple flowers at the San Pedro House close to the house not the pollinator garden

Macro Photography The Google AI told me this is an Arizona Giant Skipper I don't really buy it One reason is this butterfly is on a really tiny little purple flower for scale The picture is from yesterday at the San Pedro House

Macro Photography "That's not a macro photo" Walking back to the San Pedro House I took this picture with my Nikon D7500 camera and Nikkor 60mm Micro lens to create this black and white monochrome image of the house and the giant cottonwood tree

Macro Photography Oddly named "blanket flower" This was near the Pollinator Garden at the San Pedro House The Pollinator Garden was really suffering with struggling plants with few flowers attracting no pollinators

Macro Photography Red-legged Centris bee yesterday at the San Pedro House

Macro Photography Skipper butterfly yesterday at the San Pedro House

Macro Photography Meridian duskywing butterfly At the San Pedro House

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Alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OpenBeaks Zone-tailed Hawk out in the wilderness of Pima County, Arizona Sonoran Desert in other words flying and screeching incessantly That's why the beak is open

She is a Sonoran Spotted Whiptail Lizard She is in my backyard She is hunting for mealworms She (my wife) puts out mealworms for the birds

Thuggish little House Sparrow drinking water from one of our birdbaths on the ground

Note the camouflage of the Cactus Wren blending in with all the debris and what not on the ground in my backyard Almost invisible!

I once read and this is weird the Curve-billed Thrasher does not have the curviest bill of the various thrashers

Lesser Goldfinch (aka Little Yellow Bird) eating seeds in my backyard

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Desert Cottontail Rabbit taking a break the other morning in my backyard

White-winged Dove perching on the burgeoning agave stalk in my front yard

The little immature juvenile Verdin really likes the orange slices

Sparrow Sunday! Scruffy youngster Canyon Towhee the other morning in my backyard

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The Yardbirds Used vinyl Avec Eric Clapton

This is a male Gambel's Quail He either lives on my property or the neighbor's We have multiple habitat piles to encourage her quail to migrate to our yard

Of the multitude of photos I took yesterday of rabbits I've only processed this one of a Desert Cottontail Rabbit drinking from the birdbath Look close to see the tongue lapping up water

I took a lot of pictures of this male Anna's Hummingbird sitting in the big mesquite tree in my backyard for the simple reason he was just sitting there asking for it

Puffed up Anna's Hummingbird sitting in the big mesquite tree in my backyard

The tarantula hawk wasp has the most painful sting in the insect world Experts describe the pain as like a gunshot wound while being electrocuted

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As you can see many birds already partook of this orange slice we impaled on one of the branches of the habitat pile before the young Cactus Wren got there

Yesterday this young Clark's Spiny lizard was clinging to the the trunk of the big mesquite tree in my backyard

Yesterday this young Rock Squirrel was eating peanuts in my backyard Look really close at the eyelid margins and see evidence of distichiasis