After a day with a guide I am on my own again. The first destination is Catalina Park, a park at the foot of the Catalina Mountains / Mount Lemmon on the north side of Tucson. But as a I leave the hotel property an American Kestrel (Amerikaanse torenvalk) is posing, so I need to […]

Aside from the Santa Rita Lodge there are more Lodge on the road up the Canyon. The next lodge had the nest of a Magnificent Hummingbird in a tree above the road. Quite a nice spot for nest photography. Our next stop was again a the Red-breasted Sapsucker (Roodborstsapspecht), it was still hugging the same […]

The Santa Rita Lodge is a hikers lodge in the Madera Canyon.  Aside from being a lodge, they also have many bird feeders.  So many that the Lodge became a birding hotspot, the place to see many species that otherwise require a long hike and more luck. It is indeed a very good place for […]

Friday I went to Madeira Canyon with a birding guide. I had never been to the Canyon before. It is a very rich birding area, because it represents to northern end of the distribution of many Mexican species. The rock wren (Amerikaanse Rotswinterkoning) is not one these birds, it occurs in all the western states. […]

I had a few days off in Tucson to go birding. An opportunity to add 19 new species to my picture database! I arrived at daybreak at the Sweetwater Wetlands Park, an set of (old) water treatment basins that are maintained for the enjoyment of birds and birders. A Cooper’s Hawk (Coopers Sperwer) was setting […]