#bird walks

[falcons-feathers]

Walks with slayer are dope

[heyranger]

I was asked that becuase I was leading bird walks if I would take some photographs of birds for Montezuma's Castle's website. Here are ten that I have taken so far. It is proving a bit of a challenge due to the camera I have. I have a pretty nice digital (Olympus pen) but I bought the smaller camera body so larger lenses can't be hooked up without a lens adapter. Well try taking pictures of birds with manual focus. It gets a little frustrating but I am getting better. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I can get a couple more species. 

side note: there are no saguaros at MOCA so the Red-Tail was actually taken at Organ Pipe. There is a nesting Red-Tail pari at the castle, but I have yet to capture them yet. Finger's crossed. 

[nybg]

This is awesome! I have always wondered whether woodpeckers get headaches or brain damage from all their insistent pecking. Turns out, they don't, and it also turns out that some of my own half-baked reasoning (usually dreamed up while trying to get back to sleep after being awoken by one banging away on the bedroom's external walls) including bone density and anatomical buttressing, are in fact true.

What does this have to do with the Garden? Well, we have a lot of woodpeckers, including a very rare Pilleated Woodpecker which was spotted recently in the Garden for the first time in 73 years. Want a chance to see him (or her?), come along for one of our free Saturday morning Bird Walks! Bring your binoculars! ~AR