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Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists

Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists

Appreciate the natural wonders of Sabino Canyon

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Tarantula Hawk Wasp

Canyon Life

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American Kestrel pair sitting on a saguaro

American Kestrel

American Snout Butterfly grasping a Palo Verde leaflet

American Snout Butterfly

Arch-Nutted Comb Bur 3

Arch-Nutted Comb Bur

Barrel Cactus

Barrel Cactus

Black Widow Spider

Black Widow Spider

Black-Necked Garter Snake

Black-Necked Garter Snake

Black-Tailed Jack Rabbit

Black-Tailed Jackrabbit

Black-Tailed Rattlesnake

Black-Tailed Rattlesnake

Black-Throated Sparrow

Black-Throated Sparrow

Botta's Pocket Gopher

Botta’s Pocket Gopher

Brittlebush

Brittlebush

Gneiss News November 2017 15

Burroweed

Cactus Wren

Cactus Wren

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Chain Fruit Cholla 6

Chain Fruit Cholla

Chia 3

Chia

Coati walking towards the camera

Coati

Common Raven

Common Raven

Cooper’s Hawk

Cooper’s Hawk

Creosotebush 1

Creosotebush

Curve-Billed Thrasher

Curve-Billed Thrasher

Desert Christmas Cactus

Desert Christmas Cactus

Desert Ferns 3

Desert Ferns

Desert Night-Blooming Cereus

Desert Night-Blooming Cereus

Desert Senna 1

Desert Senna

Desert Senna

Desert Senna

Desert Tortoise standing on gravel

Desert Tortoise

Desert Zinnia & Paper Flower

Desert Zinnia & Paper Flower

Eastern Collared Lizard

Eastern Collared Lizard

Elegant Trogon

Elegant Trogon

Ephedra

Ephedra

Flame Skimmer Dragonfly 1

Flame Skimmer Dragonfly

Funnel-Web Spider

Funnel-Web Spider

Gambel's Quail

Gambel’s Quail

Gila Monster

Gila Monster

Gila Woodpecker

Gila Woodpecker

Gilded Flicker atop a saguaro

Gilded Flicker

Gopher Snake

Gopher Snake

Gray Fox 2

Gray Fox

Gray Hawk

Gray Hawk

Great Horned Owl

Great Horned Owl

Great Purple Hairstreak 1

Great Purple Hairstreak

Greater Roadrunner

Greater Roadrunner

Green Lynx Spider

Green Lynx Spider

Hairy Bowlesia 2

Hairy Bowlesia

Photo of Harris' Antelope Squirrel sitting on a rock

Harris’ Antelope Squirrel

Harris’s Hawk

Harris’s Hawk

Indian Mallow

Indian Mallow

Iron-Cross Blister Beetle

Iron-Cross Blister Beetle

Photo of Javelina near Sabino Canyon

Javelina

Ladder-Backed Woodpecker

Ladder-Backed Woodpecker

Lesser Long-Nosed Bat 1

Lesser Long-Nosed Bat

Limberbush 1

Limberbush

Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead Shrike

Madrean Alligator Lizard

Madrean Alligator Lizard

Monarch Butterfly chrysalis

Monarch Butterfly

Picture of a Mountain near a creek

Mountain Lion aka Puma, Cougar

Mustards 2

Mustards

Mydas Fly

Mydas Fly

Northern Cardinal

Northern Cardinal

Oaks of Sabino Canyon 4

Oaks of Sabino Canyon

Palo Verde Root Borer

Palo Verde Root Borer

Peregrine Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

Phainopepla

Phainopepla

Prairie Falcon

Prairie Falcon

Pyrrhuloxia 3

Pyrrhuloxia

Queen Butterfly

Queen Butterfly

Male and Female Red Spotted Toad in mating embrace

Red-spotted Toad

Red-Tailed Hawk

Red-Tailed Hawk

Regal Horned Lizard

Regal Horned Lizard

Sacred Datura 4

Sacred Datura

Saguaro

Saguaro

Sara Orangetip 3

Sara Orangetip

Skeleton Weed & Wright's Buckwheat 1

Skeleton Weed & Wright’s Buckwheat

Slender Grama and Needle Grama 1

Slender Grama and Needle Grama

Sonoran Desert Toad 2

Sonoran Desert Toad

Swainson's Hawk

Swainson’s Hawk

Tarantula Hawk Wasp

Tarantula Hawk Wasp

Tiger Rattlesnake 1

Tiger Rattlesnake

Tumamoc Globeberry

Tumamoc Globeberry

Gneiss News November 2017 6

Veined Ctenucha

Verdin 5

Verdin

Vermilion Flycatcher

Vermilion Flycatcher

Violet-crowned Hummingbird

Violet-Crowned Hummingbird

Western Bluebird

Western Bluebird

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

Western Screech-Owl

Western Screech-Owl

Western Tanager

Western Tanager

White-Throated Wood Rat (Pack Rat) sitting on twigs

White Throated Wood Rat (Pack Rat)

White-Tailed Deer

White-Tailed Deer

Whitethorn Acacia 2

Whitethorn Acacia

Yellow Paper Wasp 2

Yellow Paper Wasp

Zebra-Tailed Lizard looking over is shoulder with tail raised high

Zebra-Tailed Lizard

Zone-Tailed hawk soaring

Zone-Tailed Hawk

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Tucson, AZ 85750

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