Birds and Bees and Things That Go Bump in the Night

Wildlife

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  • Sandhill crane at Bosque del Apache, New Mexico.
  • Bumblebee, early spring, Sonoran desert.
  • Mexican gray wold at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Mule deer in a yard in Flagstaff, Arizona.
  • Porpoise alongside boat in Loreto Bay, Baja California Norte, Mexico.
  • Harris hawk at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Human and pelicans at Loreto Bay, Baja California Norte, Mexico.
  • Cornfields adjacent to the Platte River, Nebraska.
  • Sandhill cranes in a cornfield adjacent to the Platte River in central Nebraska.
  • Wintering Sandhill cranes, Platte River, central Nebraska.
  • Sandhill cranes above the Platte River, central Nebraska.
  • Jellyfish on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
  • Spider on Texas ranger, a sage, in southeast Tucson, Arizona.
  • Queen butterfly on red bird of paradise in Civano, southeast Tucson.
  • Great horned owl in a large mesquite tree in the community of Civano, Tucson.
  • A dinosaur (!) on the grounds of Tucson Botanical Gardens.
  • Western kingbird at Civano's intersection of Thunder Sky Way and Summer Storm Lane.
  • Mountain lion at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Bumblebee-colored fly on the high pastures of the San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona.
  • Raingtail in moonlight, community of Civano in southeast Tucson, Arizona.
  • Queen butterfly on Gregg's mist in Tucson, Arizona.
  • Great blue heron at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Hummingbird among ocotillo blooms at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Ground squirrel checking out the bluebells and poppies of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum cactus garden.
  • American lady butterfly on verbena in southern Arizona.
  • Hummingbird in the aviary at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Who knows what this strange creature is roaming a Civano neighborhood park?!

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