The desert milkweed I’ve recently planted in my yard has continued to support lots of butterfly and caterpillar activity:
Tag: Catalina Mountains
Tropical Storm Newton
Tropical Storm Newton recently passed through Tucson and it dropped a lot of water on the way. Enough that some washes flowed. The storm also brought in lost pelagic seabirds from the Sea of Cortez, like the Least Storm-Petrel. The Tucson Wildlife Center took in two petrels. Both did not make it as they had simply run out of gas. Here is their Press Release: Sea of Cortez Petrels.
lesser long-nosed bats
It’s that time of year when the nectarivorous bats raid my hummingbird feeders each night. I love that the bats visit. All I have to do is make more sugar nectar each week since they’re pretty sloppy at the feeders. Unlike hummingbirds, bats can’t really hover, so they end up doing crazy acrobatics in order to capture just a taste of the sugar water:
If you happen to live in Tucson, there is a local bridge that is well-known for its bat colony. Every evening tens of people turn out to watch tens-of-thousands of bats emerge from the crevices in the bridge and fly off for a night of hunting:
mountain lions
My trail cameras that I set up in the Sonoran Desert have caught some mountain lion action over the last six months:
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