Folks, let's use some common sense while hiking during the holidays. Get out, enjoy the weather and get some exercise. But please, remember your limitations. The Sonoran Desert is a beautiful place to recreate, not wreck create.
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Merry Christmas!
Peace on earth and goodwill to all! O Holy Night performed by Catherine Cote with Sedona photos.
Source: Catherine Cote
Source: Catherine Cote
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving
Just remembering the first Thanksgiving, when the Pilgrims gave thanks for a successful harvest after having immigrated to America from England in 1620, and being welcomed by the Native Americans.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Happy Holidays - Hummingbird Fever!
While the rest of the country may be experiencing freezing temperatures for the holidays, we here in the Sonoran Desert are enjoying the best part of our year. As Matthew James Price shows, even the migratory hummingbirds enjoy spending the winter months in southern Arizona.
According to the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory, though there are a few hummingbirds that stay all year in the warmer parts of our state, most of the hummingbird species that make southern Arizona so special arrive in April or May and leave by early October. You'll find the most spectacular diversity of hummingbirds during the late summer rainy season, when local nesters overlap with Mexican species following the rains northward as well as northern nesters on their way south into Mexico. In a week of birding in southern Arizona between late July and early September, it's possible to find up to 15 species of hummingbirds, more than you'll find in any other part of the United States.
Hummingbird Fever! from Matthew James Price on Vimeo.
According to the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory, though there are a few hummingbirds that stay all year in the warmer parts of our state, most of the hummingbird species that make southern Arizona so special arrive in April or May and leave by early October. You'll find the most spectacular diversity of hummingbirds during the late summer rainy season, when local nesters overlap with Mexican species following the rains northward as well as northern nesters on their way south into Mexico. In a week of birding in southern Arizona between late July and early September, it's possible to find up to 15 species of hummingbirds, more than you'll find in any other part of the United States.
Hummingbird Fever! from Matthew James Price on Vimeo.
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