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The Little Big Year-week 46: All this fun comes to an end

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For a good portion of the year, it became a numbers game, and my pure enjoyment of the birds for what they are, went away. I don’t really know if it was the relief from the pressure of the numbers game, the beautiful morning hike, Matt’s fresh energy, or finding that amazing warbler, but somewhere in the day, birds became fun again.

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Owls, Owls, and more Owls in SE Arizona

10,000 Birds

They are located in the Santa Cruz Flats just north of Tucson, and are quite honestly, living right alongside the road. Several times, a couple of the juvenile owls would take off in a game of chase. I am not sure what is going on with the mis-matched iris’s? This is a look at the man-made burrow openings.

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