We saw and heard Elegant Trogon today... a big deal, as this is pretty much the only place in the U.S. where they can be seen. We got an incredible look, watching him call for at least half an hour beside his nest cavity, where we suspect the female was incubating eggs.

My digiscoped video isn't great, so here's a picture of this guy from the Web:

We saw our first rattlesnake today! Happily, it was in a cooler at the time.

Some of the incredible landscape we've seen heading into the Chiracaua Mountains...

Our trip to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum was wonderful; one of the highlights was the hummingbird aviary, where I digiscoped this beauty, a male Costa's Hummingbird. That really is the color of the purple on his face.




Here's a closer picture from the Web.