We last visited the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum on Christmas Day 2014. We just signed up for an annual membership again in time to take Alex and Sarah. This is not a museum in the conventional sense; mostly outdoors with plenty of flora and fauna.
I was anxious to photograph the raptor free flight, but it did not begin until a week later. It would have been tough to capture raptor photos as interesting as 2014’s though.
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- These are free-range butterflies.
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- The hummingbird is in an aviary.
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- All photos are better with dead trees in the foreground.
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- Prickly Pear.
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- Ocelot.
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- Coyote.
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- Gray Fox.
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- Twenty-foot tall lizard (or maybe I just had the telephoto lens on).
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- Black Bear.
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- The bird is home. Note the insect photobomber.
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- Mining machinery: ore loader, aka mucker, from 1932. Muckers are still used in small mines.
Somehow all my Arizona Sonora Desert Museum pictures disappeared. I think I cut them from the memory card and was interrupted before I pasted. After panicking I found a program to recover deleted images from a memory card… so they are here. Whew!