The Amiable Accipiter

Discovering the Desert

[ultimate_heading main_heading=”The Amiable Accipiter” heading_tag=”h1″ alignment=”left” main_heading_font_family=”font_family:|font_call:” main_heading_font_size=”desktop:55px;” sub_heading_font_size=”desktop:25px;” main_heading_style=”font-weight:bold;” margin_design_tab_text=””] The Unique Personality of a Red-Tailed Hawk [/ultimate_heading] By Ian Adrian | February 27, 2019 Image caption My absolute favorite part of nature adventuring is getting to know individual animals. Every living creature, regardless of form, has a unique personality. This female red-tailed hawk…

Free the Bobcats of Tucson

Discovering the Desert

[ultimate_heading main_heading=”Free the Bobcats of Tucson” heading_tag=”h1″ alignment=”left” main_heading_font_family=”font_family:|font_call:” main_heading_font_size=”desktop:55px;” sub_heading_font_size=”desktop:25px;” main_heading_style=”font-weight:bold;”] Protect Mama and her Kitten [/ultimate_heading] By Ian Adrian | February 27, 2019 Mama bobcat glimmering with the backlight of sunset The first time I met Mama was a hot, dry May morning. This was also the first time I had ever gotten…

Quirky Coatis

Discovering the Desert

[ultimate_heading main_heading=”Quirky Coatis” heading_tag=”h1″ alignment=”left” main_heading_font_family=”font_family:|font_call:” main_heading_font_size=”desktop:55px;” sub_heading_font_size=”desktop:25px;” main_heading_style=”font-weight:bold;”] Befriending a Troop of “Wild” Coatimundis [/ultimate_heading] Coatimundis (aka coatis) look like a cross between dogs and tiny bears. They are considered close relatives to the infamous trash panda (raccoon) and have fascinating social dynamics! Coatis eat just about anything from insects and worms, to rodents,…

The Monsoons

Discovering the Desert

The Monsoons It’s hot! No, that’s an understatement. The Sonoran Desert is a damn inferno. For some time, temperatures have regularly been reaching an excess of 110 degrees F. After tolerating these dry, scorching temperatures for long enough, residents of Southern Arizona are finally granted some relief. Welcome to monsoon season! Throughout much of the…

Bobcat in the Brush

Discovering the Desert

Bobcat in the Brush The most widespread of all North American wildcats, bobcats can be found across most of the continent in an array of habitats ranging from swamps and prairies, to desert, dense forest, and mountains. Extremely adapatable, they waste no time adjusting to habitat alterations and will prey on reptiles, any manageable mammal,…

Madera Canyon: Birds and Coatis

Discovering the Desert

Madera Canyon: Birds and Coatis One of the most ecologically-diverse regions in North America, Southern Arizona boasts more species of many life forms than anywhere else, north of Mexico. Among them are bees, rattlesnakes and, you guessed it, hummingbirds. Southern Arizona has a unique array of habitats that range from sandy/rocky deserts, to wetlands, alpine…

Coyote Country

Discovering the Desert

Coyotes are incredible creatures. Like wolves, they form tightly-knit family groups or “packs,” sometimes hunting cooperatively to take down larger or more difficult prey. They eat a wide variety of food items, from rabbit (which seem to be the favored entre), to reptiles, birds, eggs, plants, berries and, when they’re desperate, even the occasional roadkill…

Introducing Tucson

Discovering the Desert

[ultimate_heading main_heading=”Introducing Tucson” heading_tag=”h1″ alignment=”left” main_heading_font_family=”font_family:|font_call:” main_heading_font_size=”desktop:55px;” sub_heading_font_size=”desktop:25px;” main_heading_style=”font-weight:bold;” margin_design_tab_text=””]The Desert and Her Inhabitants[/ultimate_heading] By Ian Adrian | January 9, 2019 Bathed in the light of the golden hour. In the heart of the American Southwest lies a city that, since it’s 1860 founding (although it’s original inhabitants can be traced as far back as…