We have visited the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum during a previous visit to Tucson but there is so much there that we wanted to go again. So this morning we spent a few hours there. Arrived just in time for the Raptor Free-Flight show. They have several raptors that fly free each day for a half-hour show. Handlers are in the field to send out each bird, guide it to some extent--meaning they may tap a branch to suggest it as a perch for the bird to land and be seen. In the meantime the bird is flying over the people. Sometimes just barely overhead. Quite a show. Then we just wander around the grounds looking at so many various desert plants. Since this is the Sonora Desert and we have previously been in the Chihuahua Desert the plants are a little bit different, some are in both deserts but there are some unique to each.
For the afternoon we visited with some old Cowboy Action Shooting friends going way back to the Marshfield days almost 25 years ago. Black Canyon Pete and Tucson Tess moved out here 2 years ago from Mass. They are both doing very well and having a great time living out here. We capped it off with a great meal at a Mexican Restaurant
The Chihuahuan Raven:
Great Horned Owl
Crested Caracara:
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| Javalina |
The Coyote:
Bird in a Saguaro
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| 2 birds. Sorry, my bird identifier is sleeping |
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| Squirrel |
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| Grey Fox |
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| Bobcat |
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| Saguaro "skeleton" |
Some of these have their ID tags in the photo, others do not
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