Today our wanderings took us into Tucson’s Desert Park, a gorgeous example of Sonoran desert with an amazing variety of cacti and birds. We spotted a new bird today – a phainopepla which is also called a silky flycatcher for those with pronunciation problems. We fooled around in the park, just south of the western Saguaro National Park unit west of Tucson, for a couple hours before driving into town to shop for food.
The contrast between where we are, out in pristine desert with spectacular nighttime skies, and Tucson is dramatic. There is almost total silence here and there is very knotty traffic in town. I’m delighted to be in this part of the world.
Got a few bird pix. Click here