Ah, my parents came down for an extended weekend. During the weekend we headed to the Superstition area, staying in Globe. It is high country with chaparral and mountains with pine trees. And the main focus of our excursions--birding. :)We had a lovely group of birders at the same B&B we were staying at and had a good time with lectures and searching for those birds. We headed up into the Pinal Mountain, Pioneer Pass. There were birds. Hummingbirds, finches, warblers, Western Tanagers. Bird haven for the bird lovers.
I found a stream where we were birding in Pinal Mountain. Frogs croaking away. By and by... for the birding expedition up in to Pioneer pass, we left at 6:30 on a glorious Sunday morning. Nice and cool and sunny. Perfect weather. And the kind of weather I will be dreaming about in a month or two while in the hotter than hell Valley of the sun.
This view is looking down to Globe. Globe is down there and the tan colored stretch of landscape in the left corner is the mining for copper. Globe was/is a mining town.
The scenery is beautiful and amazing to think about an hour and half drive East of Phoenix, this kind of habitat and ecosystem exist. Sorry no pictures of birds. They are elusive creatures. But they are in the pictures chirping somewhere.
