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Sweetwater Wetlands Park in Tucson, Arizona is truly a desert oasis. Reclaimed waste water is pumped into a series of pools; gravel paths circumnavigate the cattail, bulrush and willow lined ponds. Where openings in the growth allow, a thick green covering organic over lies over the water’s surface. Willows and Cottonwoods provide shade and perches.

• Sunny and hot, high near 105 degrees. SW wind 8-16 MPH
• Sunrise Today: 5:16 am; Sunset Today: 7:29 pm
• Daylight Hours: 14 hours, 13 minutes

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Insatiable juvenile Brewer's Blackbird pestering an adult male, who was patiently trying to satisfy the youngster... The poor daddy has a crippled left foot possibly due to Knemidokoptes mite infestation that's inflicting quite a few BB's in the Calabasas Commons shopping mall (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24066494).