As I was walking along the path between our room and the hotel lobby I noticed this bright fellow in the bushes. I was able to sneak up on him & catch some good pictures. He is the male Northern Cardinal.
It helps to be able to zoom in for the picture & then zoom & crop afterwards! This bird has a very distinct melody that sounds like "cheer, cheer, cheer", with each cheer becoming progressively louder. I didn't even realize that this was the bird I was hearing from our veranda until just now when I looked it up on the internet! How easy it is to learn if you take a little time.
Along the path they had identified some of the different kinds of desert plants & cacti which I found so helpful. This is a buckhorn cholla which I think is very close in appearance to the teddy bear cholla. They look very soft & fuzzy, but they are NOT! They are hard & very prickly, just like all things in the desert - they either prick, poke or sting!
And this is an organ pipe cactus, which grows almost exclusively in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona & northern Mexico.
As I was walking along the path between our room and the hotel lobby I noticed this bright fellow in the bushes. I was able to sneak up on him & catch some good pictures. He is the male Northern Cardinal.
It helps to be able to zoom in for the picture & then zoom & crop afterwards! This bird has a very distinct melody that sounds like "cheer, cheer, cheer", with each cheer becoming progressively louder. I didn't even realize that this was the bird I was hearing from our veranda until just now when I looked it up on the internet! How easy it is to learn if you take a little time.
Along the path they had identified some of the different kinds of desert plants & cacti which I found so helpful. This is a buckhorn cholla which I think is very close in appearance to the teddy bear cholla. They look very soft & fuzzy, but they are NOT! They are hard & very prickly, just like all things in the desert - they either prick, poke or sting!
And this is an organ pipe cactus, which grows almost exclusively in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona & northern Mexico.
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