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Arizona in Summer: It Ain’t All Hummers

10,000 Birds

My goal was Lucifer Hummingbird , but I didn’t do enough research to know that the best time to see the hummingbird is in the early evening. I met the group in Tucson and we spend the next week birding the hell out of the Sky Islands. I had two days in the Ramsey Canyon area, and I focused on life birds.

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The Little Big Year – Week 43: Last minute trip to Texas

10,000 Birds

Things had just started to settle down a bit, now that we had parked the RV in Tucson. We left Tucson on Monday, and drove to Alpine, Texas for our first night. We made several stops along the way, hoping our eBird research would give us local hotspots that might turn up a few gems. Now the pressure was on.

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