AZ: Sky Island Specialties, Aug 2022

Narrative

Aug 14, 2022 - Mount Lemmon, Tucson hotspots
Mount Lemmon, Babad Do’ag Vista
Mount Lemmon, Seven Cataracts
Mount Lemmon, Windy Point Vista
Mount Lemmon, Mt. Bigelow Rd
Mount Lemmon, Bear Wallow
Mount Lemmon, Butterfly Trailhead
Mount Lemmon, Summerhaven
Mount Lemmon, Palisades area
Mount Lemmon, Thimble Peak Vista
Lakeside Park
Reid Park
Kennedy Park
Altar Valley area
Night in Tucson

Aug 15, 2022
Las Cienegas NCA
Box Canyon
Florida Wash
Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Lodge
Madera Canyon, Carrie Nation Trail
Desert Meadows Park
Madera Canyon, multiple stops for owls
Night in Green Valley

Aug 16, 2022
Desert Meadows Park
Canoa Ranch
Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Lodge
Green Valley WRF
Amado WTP
Tubac
Santa Gertrudis Lane
Patagonia Lake SP, Birding Trail
Patagonia Roadside Rest Area
Paton Center for Hummingbirds
Harshaw Creek Road
Blue Haven Road
Night in Sierra Vista

Aug 17, 2022
S Thorneydale Road
Carr Canyon, multiple locations
Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary
Whitewater Draw
Cave Creek Canyon, multiple stops for MXWP
Night in Portal

Aug 18, 2022
Paradise Cemetery
East Turkey Creek
Pinery Canyon
Rustler Park
George Walker House
Southwestern Research Station
Jasper/Moisan feeders
Cave Creek Canyon, multiple stops for MXWP
Night in Portal

Aug 19, 2022
Stateline Road
Willow Tank
Bob Rodrigues yard
Willcox, Lake Cochise
Benson STP
Saint David
Aqua Caliente Park
Saquaro NP, East Side
Night in Tucson

Aug 20, 2022
Sweetwater Wetlands
Departures from Tucson

Additional Wildlife:
Gray Fox
Coyote
Collared Peccary/Javalina (roadkill)
“Coues’s” White-tailed Deer
“Arizona” Mule Deer
Common Raccoon
Ringtail
Striped Skunk
Western Spotted Skunk (roadkill)
Antelope Jackrabbit
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Desert Cottontail
Cliff Chipmunk
Harris’s Antelope-Squirrel
Round-tailed Ground Squirrel
Rock Squirrel
Arizona Gray Squirrel
Abert’s Squirrel
“Chiricahua” Mexican Fox Squirrel
Desert Pocket Mouse
Merriam’s Kangaroo Rat
Arizona Cotton Rat
Lesser Long-nosed Bat

Ornate Box Turtle
Common (Red-eared) Slider
Common Side-blotched Lizard
Ornate Tree Lizard
Clark’s Spiny Lizard
Yarrow’s Spiny Lizard
Desert Spiny Lizard
New Mexico Whiptail
Sonoran Spotted Whiptail
Long-nosed Snake
Gopher Snake (roadkill)
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake (roadkill)
Couch’s Spadefoot Toad
Sonoran Desert Toad
Great Plains Toad
Red-spotted Toad
Woodhouse’s Toad
Canyon Tree Frog
American Bullfrog

Arizona Sister
Black Swallowtail
Two-tailed Swallowtail
Pipevine Swallowtail
Taxiles Skipper
Orange Skipperling
Northern Cloudywing
Funereal Duskywing
Texan Crescent
Bordered Patch
American Lady
Mourning Cloak
Gulf Fritillary
Queen
Monarch
American Snout
Echo Azure
Marine Blue
Palmer’s Metalmark
Desert Blonde Tarantula
Tucson Bronze Tarantula
Chiricahuan Gray Tarantula
Desert Millipede