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Monday, June 20, 2011

Bighorn Sheep

A Bighorn Sheep at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum west of Tucson. These wonderful animals used to be very abundant in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of town, but their population has shrunk considerably with the incursion of human activity in and around the mountains.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Hummingbird at Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

The Arizona Sonora Desert Museum west of Tucson has a wonderful hummingbird display where you can get up close to many of them. Here one works at a flower, his wings blurring even a fast camera shutter.
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