10/26/10 a
Common Buckeye visited the lantanas.
Whitelined Sphinx in the evening.
10/27/10 still a
Nighthawk at
dusk. Thought they'd be gone by now
10/28/10 with all the dogs along the
Santa Cruz: a big yellow beetle got away - could have been a Pyrota
sp.
10/29/10 short stop at lower Madera after a day at the art show in Green
Valley: lots of
Hippomelas
sp. on Velvet-pod Acacia, some mating
10/30/10 stopped at the gas
station in Picture Rocks on my way back from the Green Valley Art show: there
was a
Megacyllene antennata, an
Oxygrylius ruginasus and 5 spp of
Orthoptera,
Creosote Grasshopper.
10/31/10 black lighting, but it got
really cold A
Megacyllene from the gas station and
Achryson
surinamum in a spiderweb at Frank's across the street.
Cymatoderas.
11/1/10 all day at the Entomology Department. Wendy
brought 'Saguaro rot', lots of immatures and
Hololepta and huge
Staphylinid adults
11/2/2010 Florida Canyon is beautiful! found some
really nice bugs, a
toad lubber and
Lock-jaw ants for
example.
11/13/2010 during the Fountain Hills show:
Buffle Heads and
Scoups, Ruddies, lot of Sand Pipers, Killdeer, Am. Coots on the pond. Only
Midgets and moths. The night temps in the 40s. A
Dermestes carnivorus in
my oven mitten and Anthrenus verbasci in the Wheeler collection.
11/25/2010
night temps close to freezing now, but days in the seventies.
American
Snout,
Painted Ladies and even an
Arizona Sister at Frank and
Lynn's place across the street. There's a little water seep ...
11/26/10 a
huge
Pepsis female in the front yard checking out holes.
11/29/10
freezing night temps in the low twenties expected. I hope our plants are
save.
12/1/10 Basil, mint, tomato and paprika under the eves made it, all
succulents are fine, only bougainvillea and yellow lantana are
frozen.
12/6/10 A
Monarch on the patio and one Penstemon plant is
pushing up flower spikes. Spring?
12/8/10 a little broadnosed weevil in the kitchen sink, still to wet to
id.
12/10/10 at the 4th Avenue Street fair:
Mexican Cactus
Flies alight on balloons
12/7/10 Randy started some plastic trays with barrel seeds.
12/19/10 mating
Small Milkweed Bugs on an agave in the backyard
12/24/10 found
bugs that look like a cross between Narnia, Chelinidea and Leptoglossus on a
barrel cactus NE corner of the property (turned out to be
Narnia
wilsoni.)
12/26/10 a big
Pepsis checking out holes in the ground
at Frank's across the street.
12/29/10 Nice rainfall and then plunging temps,
but no snow down here. Some frozen plants like Lantanas and Basil, but we
covered Aloes and brought the Tomato/Bellpepper pot inside. Lowest temp 22F, I
think.
1/14/2011 the desert is turning velvety green!
1/17/2011 Visit to
the Oasis B&B and it's resident
Violet Crowned Hummer. Breaking in
the new little camera.
1/19/11 the white fluff on my window sill cacti turned
out to be
scale, not fungus, so I repotted and washed them
all.
1/21/11 Finally, the tomato plant was full of fruit - today those little
canine bastards decided to rip them off and horde them in their beds. Randy
built a BIG fence around the pot.
1/29/11 great weather and great sales at
the Ventana Art show.
2/2/11 it's getting really cold, 18F, we covered as
many plants as possible and the outdoor dogs are sleeping inside for the first
time.
2/20/11
Gopher snakes are out.
2/27/11 A winter storm brought snow to the top of Panther Peak
3/5/11
Rufus Hummers at the feeder
3/14/11 Many Turkey Vultures circling above U of A. A pair of
Cooper's Hawks in the pine trees across from Forbes building.
3/30/11
The Hedgehogs are blooming, also Texas Longthorn and Beaver
Tail. Brittle Bush on the patio is past its prime but still full of
bees.
4/1/11 Randy's Mammilaria seeds that he put on moist sand in a clear
plastic box on the window sill in January are finally sprouting. White-winged
Doves arrived.
4/2/11 record high ninties at the Tucson Street Fair
4/5/11 Ocotillos in bloom.
4/5/11 the first Diamond-backed
Rattler on the patio at 10 pm. Paloverdes beginning to bloom.
Bats are flying at dusk
4/8/11 It's raining, 0.6 in! It's cold, too,
49 Fahrenheit on the patio and frost on the roof the next morning.
4/12/11
Caracara (was an immature Harris) and a
group of White-chested Swifts over our
house.
4/13/11 buds on Saguaros and single flowers open. Chollas and
Prickly Pears starting to bloom
4/13/11 Ripiphoris
everywhere
4/21/11 Night Hawks are back
5/1/2011
Red-spotted Toad on the patio
5/5/11
Cyclocephala
melanocephala
5/6/11 1
Black
Vulture with a group of 6 TVs.
5/10/11 Finally Quail
chicks!
5/11/11 we had to get rid of a
bee
hive in an irrigation valve box.
5/18/11 Common Buckeyes at Santa Cruz
River/Ina.
Kissing
bugs invading the house.
5/21/11 Summer Tanager front yard. Many groups
of quail chicks
5/22/11 Male
Cicada Killers on AZ
Walnut and Crucifixion Bush at the ASDM
5/24/11 first
Acoma
sp., a rather big one
5/25/11 Long-nosed Snake drinking at
birdbath
5/29/11 Redtail hawk nest in the state land with two or three big
chicks.
6/5/11 11 eggs in quail nest in 'goat pen' corner
6/9/11 Coronado Forest
closure because of fire danger
6/11/11 first
Hemiphileurus illatus
6/13/11
first Palo Verde Rootborer on University and 4th
6/18/11 our quail has left -
with 11 chicks I hope. Only egg shells left behind, neatly cut in half. The Red
tail nest is empty, too.
6/20/11 Finally young Screech Owls again.
6/28/11
Thunder at night, but no rain
7/4 and 7/5/11 finally thunderstorms and heavy
rain.
Duboisius arizonensis appeared. 7/21/11
two spp. of Epicauta at PR black light. First Pelidnota lugubris and Cylindera
lemniscata, Scarites, Scolaspis. Still Nothopleurus but no Derobrachus
9/2/11
overwhelmed by Oxygrilius all along the Sta Cruz River. Not much at the PR
lights, but Hemiphileurus regularly. We planted soaked Mexican Paloverde seeds
and they germinated right away. My Horse lubber nymph just molted into an
adult.
10/18/11 Desert Broom just beyond its peak at Molino. Autumn colors at
Gen. Hitchcock and higher
11/28/2011
Spotted
Towhee in Frank's backyard, flying across the street into our yard. The
Night Hawks are still here.
12/5/2011 Freezing night temps and I'm hoping my
tomato plant is save under the patio roof.
12/16/11 White-throated Swifts at
the Sta Cruz River in Marana
1/19/2012 Bats are cruising at dawn. Still night frost.
Fairy Dusters
for a week and the first Brittle Bush flowering
2/9/2012 first Whitewinged
Dove at the feeder.
3/18/2012 Rain! Finally
3/20/12 Scott's Oriole on the
big aloe
3/25/12 Tarantula Hawk and Carpenter Bees. Redtail and Kestrel
females are incubating.
4/12/12 Kestrel and Redtails are hatched.
4/21/12
first quail babies
4/27/12 Gopher Snakes mating at the palapa at
Frank's
4/28/12 first Ironwood trees blooming, first Night Hawk
5/2/12
Black-tailed Gnatcatchers fledged in front yard
5/6/12 pair of Black Vultures
over the Twin Peak
5/8/12 put one Kestrel chick back into the nest
5/9/12
first Kissing Bug (Bedroom)
5/10/12 Green-tailed Towhee at the birdbath
(studio window)
5/13/12 last Kestrel chick left the nest
5/18 first of 2
Redtail chicks is out of the nest
6/6/12 four freshly fledged Gilded Flickers
all over the yard
6/23 12 Queen of the night bloomed last night around
here
1/12/13 night temps down to 20F
2/3/2013 finally a Gilded Flicker at the front hummingbird feeder again. One in the State Land last week. They are getting much rarer than a couple of years ago.
2/3/2013 Anna's male at the studio feeder. They usually stay at the drive way feeder, Costa's dominate the studio feeder.
2/27/13 the dark female Red-tailed Hawk is on the saguaro nest closest to our house. It's the nest she used 2 years ago, She seems to switch regularly.
3/1/2013 Swifts are cruising low over the state trust land as if ants may be swarming?
3/4/2013 recently mated Messor pergandei Queens are appearing at the black light
3/5/2013 airial ballet of two Prairy Falcons high above our backyard.
3/24/2013 Turkey vultures are back
3/26/2013 White-winged Dove
3/29/2013 Anorus arizonum
3/31/2013 fledged Thrasher, first Rattler. A Starling checking out the saguaro hole at the patio?
5/20/2013 First adult Kissingbug in the house. Brown headed cowbirds at franks
5/20/2013 Acoma sp. beginning to fly
5/22/2013 first Diplotaxis
1/23/2014 green branches on red-tail nest
1/26/2014 first rattler
4/1/2014 White-winged Doves
4/20/2014 White-faced Ibisses and Burrowing Owl in Marana, Sanders Rd/Santa Cruz River
4/20/2014 Night Hawks over the backyard and continuous purring sound
4/21/2014 White-throated Swifts mating in the air over the state land
4/21/2014 Havelinas come under the dog-fence at the potting shed and attack the Quail block
4/21/2016 Wilson's Warbler at my studio window
6/29/2014 Phainopeplas are back
7/11/2014 Queen of the night bloom in Picture Rocks and at Tohono Chul Park
1/15/2015 All our Hummingbird feeders are overrun by bees, just as the hummer numbers were increasing
3/1/2015 Our rattlers showed up,
big guy and then the smaller darker one by the quail block
3/11/2015
Eastern Collared lizard Sabino Canyon walk
3/19/2015
Hooded Oriole male on tree aloe flowers
3/26/2015 Cactus Longhorn Moeilema gigas
4/4/2015 3 little downy red-tail Hawks in the oldest nest in the state land
4/5/2015 first quail chicks at Frank's across the street and
Desert Iguanas are active
4/7/2015 White-crowned Sparrows are back
4/9/2015 White-winged Doves and Nighthawks are back
5/28/2015 Captive Dynastes granti males emerged from pupae
6/1/2015 Gilded Flickers fledged
6/6/2015 Paloverde Root Borers appearing
6/6/2015 Fledged red-tail Hawk chicks are still with their mother on the power poles.
11/30/2015 first ice on the bird bath. Red Tails and Kestrels seem to become territorial, Cooper's hunting around the feeder daily. Bees at the hummingbird feeders for a couple of weeks
4/12/2017 first Diplotaxis
4/16/2017 saw the first Nighthawk flying over our yard
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