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Mating ritual shown by two males, possibly a female in the vicinity.

Grooming near a on road #60 wash, two observed

Leucistic individual.

Found in the pool. Safely released into the garden.

bunting or finch, but unsure of species, but displaying albanistic traits.

Superzoom camera capured a family! I first saw a silhoutte and thought there were just two adults. Opening up shadows with editing revealed two owlets.

White Crow, Spirit Crow

A known stakeout bird. Hopefully AZ's first record if accepted.

Mom flew away acting injured, to deter us from next

at the Santa Rita lodge feeders

Eating a rodent.

Tired/on the floor
Picked up, gave some sugar water and flew off

Trying its best to hide from me. The other ones I have seen in the county have been so skittish, I can barely get a picture before they are flying away

Surprisingly uncommon despite reedbeds around the lake, at least I almost never hear them here. Walked right out in the open, far from any reeds

Watched this guy hunt gopher along the Guadalupe creeks in downtown San Jose!

San Pedro Riparian Preserve, Cochise County Arizona

A most impressive wasp, photo 3 of 3. The suggested genus looks good, but I really don't know wasps. Other photos available.

Sunnyvale WPCP, Santa Clara County, CA, 2019-01-01

Spent a quarter hour watching a flock of these tiny guys feasting on seeds along the trail.

4 recently fledged birds. Parents were still in the area and bringing them food.

Many barn swallows were flying around. This barn swallow sat down for a minute to give me a chance to take its photo.

a juvenile killdeer

A flock(group)? Of migrating Canadian Geese casually crossing the street on a cloudy gray morning 7:30 or so

Observation and photo by Karin Merit, sent via Facebook #natureinla

Swainson's Hawk capturing Mexican Freetail Bat in flight, Armendariz Ranch private property

Comments welcomed.

Tercer jabalí albino que veo. Tiene alrededor de un mes.

Santa Cruz County, Arizona, US

San Clemente State Beach - bird seen as part of Snowy Plover survey

This female Black Scoter was closely associating with a large flock of Common Goldeneyes at the base of Parker Dam on the AZ side of the Colorado River.

Little friend was stuck in my shop and needed some help

with Cackling Goose; 1st Colorado record found by Steve Mlodinow

Owl was resting on a rooftop in a new housing development built in a sand dune area. He just sat there for about three hours. It had no fear of humans and showed relaxed behavior.

I watched this event for approximately sixty minutes, before leaving the area. I returned later to find that the elk survived.

Barrow's x Common Goldeneye Hybrid

Heavily marked, Juvenile Red-tail

Also pictured: Rainbow Trout. The water was SO clear!

Is this a Gadwall hybrid? It looks somewhat like a Gadwall, but the coloring seems wrong...