House Finch
Overhead at John and Pat's Condo on N Kolb, Tucson, AZ

Female Costa's Hummingbird at feeder
Costa's is distinctive for its very short tail and note the pale necklace connects to the pale supercilium via a light border around the back of the cheek, per Bill D. Also per Sibley "completely pale supercilium isolates pale gray auriculars"

The hummingbird rested in a nearby tree.

Verdin

Cactus Wren
in the parking lot at John and Pat's condo, Tucson, AZ

Curve-billed Thrasher
at Saguaro National Park West, Tucson, AZ

Curve-billed Thrasher preening

Lizard

Swallow-tailed butterfly

Swallow-tailed butterfly

Butterflies

Pink flower and butterfly

Saguaro cactus

The habitat at Saguaro National Park West

Steve in one of the museum areas of the park

More park habitat

A blooming barrel cactus

John, Pat and Steve on the trail at Saguaro National Park West

Steve gets up close with a local inhabitant.

A saguaro forest

Saguaros

Saguaros

Hummingbird at a yellow trumpet flower

Steve checking the view from the back of an amphitheater

A deer in an exhibit at the park

Interesting seed pod

Prairie dog at an exhibit at the park

Tortoise at the park 'zoo'

An evolutionary sculpture

More desert cacti

Hummingbird resting with pollen on its bill

Our first glimpse of a Phainopepla

Pale yellow flower
Desert rosemallow,
Hibiscus coulteri

Honey bee on yellow flowers

Orange dragonfly

Queen Butterfly

Puma in a park exhibit

Deer in a park exhibit

Resting puma

American Kestrel in a park aviary

Barrel cactus blooms

Barrel cactus

Elf Owl in park aviary

Gila Woodpecker in flight

Yellow flower

Yellow flower with spent blossoms

Some sort of willow?

Javelina in an enclosed wash at the park

More javelinas on exhibit

Javelina

Blooming barrel cactus

Cactus blooms

Pale flower

Phainopepla

Desert plants

Cactus Wren

Cactus Wren

Saguaro and saguaro skeleton

Gila Woodpecker with a seed or berry

Gila Woodpecker

Gila Woodpecker

Cactus Wren entering its nest

Gila Woodpecker

Gila Woodpecker

Yellow and brown paper wasp on yellow flower

Cactus Wren with nesting material

Cactus Wren

Yellow flower and bee

Another cactus variety

Yellow flower

Big Horn Sheep in an exhibit at the park

Big Horn Sheep

Beavers in an exhibit at the park

Beavers

This Curve-billed Thrasher seems to be studying this plant label.

Cactus Wren

Cactus Wren

Curve-billed Thrasher

Curve-billed Thrasher

Phainopepla

Western Scrub-jay at the park aviary

Costa's Hummingbird? in the park aviary

Tarantula in a park exhibit

Hummingbird

Western Scrub-jay

Hummingbird

Hummingbird

Back of hummingbird

Hummingbird in aviary

Hummingbird

Pyrrhuloxia in aviary

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in the aviary

Red flowers

Inca Dove in the aviary

White-winged Dove in aviary

Black-headed Grosbeak in aviary

Queen butterfly on yellow trumpet-shaped flowers

Black fly or bee on yellow flower

Small cactus blooming

We took time out at the park cafe for a meal.

Bees in flowers

Flowers and seed heads

Cactus assortment

Orange-crowned Warbler

Verdin

Nightshade flower

Bees and wasp on red flowers

Two types of bee and a wasp

Desert flora.
The "tree" in the foreground is the Boojum tree, Fouquieria columnaris

Two Queen butterflies

Butterfly

Butterfly

Tattered Sulphur butterfly

Bee-like fly

Interesting shapes in the base of an agave

Red cap of a male Gila Woodpecker

Cactus Wren

Cactus Wren

Cactus Wren

Cactus Wren

Saguaro

Steve and Mary beneath a saguaro at the end of the day

Steve and Mary and saguaro

Steve mimics the saguaro

End of the day at Saguaro National Park West