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Alert Grackles

Bird Conversations

My last stop on my summer journey from Carson City to Tucson, after a brief stay in Pinetop, Arizona, was the San Francisco River in New Mexico.  There is a designated birding area south of Glenwood that provides a parking lot and access to the river. It was mid-day and sweltering when the dog and […]

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Mexican Long-tongued bat

Sugar Bats

Among the long list of interesting creatures that call southern Arizona home are a couple of species of nectar-feeding bats, the Mexican Long-tongued bat and the Lesser Long-nosed bat.  Unlike most bats that feed on insects, nectar-feeding bats feed on the nectar of large flowers of cacti.  They are well-known to most southern Arizonans that

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Black-tailed prairie dog

Listening to prairie dogs

As readers of my blog know, I like squirrels.  I professed my love for them in a previous post.  In this post, I want to go into greater depth on one of the most socially complex squirrels, the prairie dog.  There are 5 species of prairie dogs in North America, although most detailed studies have

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Golden-mantled ground squirrel

Squirrel Chatter

On my recent trip through the Great Basin, I spent a night in a lovely place called Bowers Flat, near the resort town of Duck Creek, Utah.  This grassy meadow surrounded by Ponderosa Pines should actually have been called squirrel meadow, as within a few minutes of arriving, I heard the calls of yellow-bellied marmots,

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