Little did I know about life in the desert until we purchased our home in Tucson, Arizona in 2003. Since then, I have been amazed at how much wildlife passes through here. Most of my pictures (though not all of them) were taken around our home.
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Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Arizona Pocket Mouse
Arizona Pocket Mouse
Wolf Spider
Wolf Spider
Sonora Mud Turtle
Sonora Mud Turtle
Sonora Mud Turtle
Sonora Mud Turtle
Verdin
Verdin – nest in Mesquite Tree
Tarantula Wasp
Tarantula Wasp
Tarantula Wasp
Tarantula Wasp
Tarantula
Baby Tarantula
Tarantula
Tarantula
Sonoran Desert Toad
Sonoran Desert Toad
Sonoran Desert Toad
Side-Blotched Lizard
Side-Blotched Lizard
Side-Blotched Lizard – what a macho!
Side-Blotched Lizard – here is the beauty 🙂
Roadrunner
Roadrunner – they love to eat lizards
Roadrunner
Roadrunner
Red Spotted Toad
Red Spotted Toad
Western Diamond-backed Rattle Snake
Rattle Snake
Rattle Snake
Baby Rattle Snake – “Watch your step!”
Rattle Snake
Rattle Snake
Rattle Snake – the number of segments in the rattle give insight about the age of the snake
Raccoon
Raccoon – my daughter took this picture with her camera trap
Cottontail Rabbit
Rabbit – sitting under my daughter’s camera trap
Rabbit – adult
Rabbit – baby
Rabbit
Rabbit
Rabbit
Gambel’s Quail
Gambel’s Quails – family
Gambel’s Quail – baby
Pyrrhuloxia
Pyrrhuloxia
Pyrrhuloxia – “May I come in, please?”
Pyrrhuloxia – “Anybody home?”
Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis – “Can’t leave, honey! Got a Praying Mantis on my tire!”
Packrat
Packrat
Packrat – Intruder!!!
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove – this bird has been injured
Mountain Lion
Mountain Lion – track
Mountain Lion – my daughter took this picture with her camera trap
Mountain Lion – territory
Mountain Lion – at our house; this young mountain lion came down from the Catalinas after a big fire
Mockingbird (Thresher)
Mockingbird
Mockingbird – nest with young
Long-Nosed Snake
Long-Nosed Snake
Ground Squirrel
Ground Squirrel
Ground Squirrel Family
Ground Squirrel
Ground Squirrel
Ground Squirrel
Ground Squirrel – pregnant Mama needs a stretch and a snack…
Ground Squirrel
Great Plains Toad
Great Plains Toad
Great Plains Toad
Golden Eagle
Golden Eagle – she raised two young close to our house in a tall palm tree
Gila Monster
Gila Monster – they move very slowly; but don’t be fooled – they can bite and are very venomous
Western Banded Gecko
Western Banded Gecko – “Friend or Food?”
Western Banded Gecko
Garter Snake
Garter Snake
Garter Snake
Garter Snake
Finches
Finches drinking and bathing at the drip system
Finches
Finches taking a bath
Finches
Gold Finch – Peepers; he had fallen out of the nest and was still naked when we found him; we raised him and let him go; what a cute and cheerful bird he was!
Gold Finch – Peepers
Gold Finch – Peepers
House Finch Eggs
Gray Fox
Gray Fox – my daughter took this picture with her camera trap
Gray Fox – my daughter took this picture with her camera trap
Ducks (Mallard)
Ducks – I never thought there would be ducks swimming in our pool 🙂
Ducks
Ducks
Desert Iguana
Desert Iguana on our doormat; they are such curious animals
Baby Desert Iguana
Baby Desert Iguana
Desert Iguana
Coyote
Coyote burying his javelina kill
Coyote burying his javelina kill
Cooper Hawk
Cooper Hawk
Cooper Hawk
Coachwhip
Coachwhip – I like to call it “telescope snake” because it always looks out of its hole like a submarine…
Coachwhip
Common Desert Centipede
Common Desert Centipede
Common Desert Centipede – they are venomous
Canyon Tree Frog
Canyon Tree Frog
Canyon Tree Frog
Canyon Tree Frog
Canyon Tree Frog
Cactus Wren
Cactus Wren
Bobcat
Bobcat
Bobcat mother with kitten
Young Bobcat
Bobcat drinking from our pool during the hottest days of the year
Bobcat
Western Pipistrelle Bat
Western Pipistrelle Bat
Bark Scorpion
Bark Scorpion
Antelope Squirrel
Antelope Squirrel – we saved this one from drowning in the pool…
Antelope Squirrel
Antelope Squirrel – they love the fruit of the barrel cactus
Bullsnake
Bullsnake
Bullsnake
Bullsnake
Bullsnake
Desert Tortoise
Desert Tortoise
Desert Tortoise
Gila Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird – loves my Rainbow Lantana
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird – this one nests in the same Purple Leaf Plum Tree twice every year
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird – she always builds the nest way at the end of a thin branch
Anna’s Hummingbird – trying to keep her young cool by spreading her wings on a hot day
King Snake
King Snake
King Snake
King Snake
King Snake
King Snake
Javelinas
Javelina
Javelina
Javelina
Javelina – someone wanted to cool off as we were planting…
Javelina – nothing feels better than a cool water hole on a hot summer day…
