Sonoran Desert
Hint of Spring
#Desert #landscape #Sonoran #Spring #BlueskyMonday #photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #MountaainMonday #Arizona
Part zoo, part botanical garden, part living laboratory, this Tucson institution has spent seven decades proving that the desert is the lushest landscape most people never knew existed.
https://qualla.com/arizona-sonora-desert-museum/
#Zoos in Arizona #Sonoran Desert
A raven flying with a pecan in its mouth.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Corvidae 🐦⬛ We love our #ravens here in the #Sonoran #Desert so happy to share this raven taking a pecan to add to their stash 💚
#birds
#birding
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
A rocky mountainside extending downward from the upper right corner of the image. Saguaro cactus is visible, as is creosote, dirt, rocks, and other desert foliage. A blue sky with white wispy clouds is above it all
On the edge of Piestewa Peak Park, Phoenix, Arizona
#RockinTuesday #Saguaro #Cactus #Rocks #Mountains #ValleyOfTheSun #Scape #BlueSky #Sonoran #Southwest #Photography
A raven atop a snow-covered pine tree on Mount Lemmon, high above the Sonoran Desert.
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #WinterSurvivors. I felt like it would be a struggle as we currently reside in the #Sonoran #Desert and thought I'd go with the alt theme, #Corvids. Then I remembered this cell phone pic from Mt Lemmon that has both 😀
#nature
#photography
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#wildlife
#raven
Yearning for Superstition
Brown Mountain, Mesa, #Arizona
#photo #photography #AZ #southwest #adventure #hiking #landscape #explore #travel #desert #monochrome #classicmonochrome #art #beauty #mountians #sonoran #photographers #pic #photographersofbluesky #outdoors
A Common Side-blotched Lizard enjoying an especially warm January day in the Sonoran Desert.
A warmer than average weekend here in the #Sonoran #Desert meant that we saw some lizards basking on our #hike, including this Common Side-blotched #Lizard. 🦎
#wildlife
#photography
#nature
#reptiles
Our precious #Sonoran #Desert will be able to preserve more of its saguaros and exquisite #wildlife via this land purchase.
A sleepy damp lesser #Goldfinch spent some time with me today, #birdsky here in the #Sonoran #desert
Saquaro Cactus; this could be up to 175 years old. Saguaro National Park, Arizona, USA.
#Photography #Cactus #Saguaro #Arizona #Sonoran
Crested, or cristate saguaro in the Sonoran Desert.
Crested, or cristate saguaro in the Sonoran Desert.
Crested, or cristate saguaro in the Sonoran Desert.
Crested, or cristate saguaro in the Sonoran Desert.
Crested, or #cristate #saguaros are a rare (est. 1 in 200,000) and little understood phenomenon here in the #Sonoran #Desert. Suspected causes range from frost and lightning damage to genetic mutation to hormonal changes to geomagnetism.
#landscape
#photography
#plants
#botany
#saguaro
#cactus
We moved to #Tucson. #Diverse. #Cultural. The Best #Mexican Food in America. #Sonoran Desert. #Saguaro National Park.
We #Sonoran desert dwellers can relate.
#desertcardinal #Sonoran
#pyrrhuloxia
#az.
This guy, with his developing chest color, is fairly easy to distinguish from his cousin,
#azbirds the northern cardinal.
#Limerick #entertainment #humor #Tempe #Arizona #Sonoran #DarwinAward #saguaro www.youtube.com/channel/UCnf...
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#b&w
#Sonoran desert
#iphonephotography
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santa Catalina landscape
#Sonoran Desert
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#mountains
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roadrunner
#birds
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#b&w
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Santa Catalinas sunset
#Sonoran Desert
#sunsets
#landscape
#mountains
#photography
Tarantula
#b&w
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#nature
#Sonoran desert
#tarantula
Blooming cactus
#Sonoran desert
#flowers
#cacti
#nature
#photography
Desert sunset
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#Sonoran desert
snake
#photography
#b&w
#nature photography
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#b&w
#Sonoran Desert