Category: Birds
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #9 – Santa Rita Mountains
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. PATAGONIA LAKE SP After the Paton Center for Hummingbirds, we stopped briefly at the nearby Patagonia…
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Operation PhotoTrogon – Finito
By Jim Gain The next morning as we pulled ourselves out of bed and slowly started to shake off the cobwebs, we both realized that at this point our trip had been a complete success. Undoubtedly, probably the best birding trip we had ever been on. Rich suggested that perhaps…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #8 – Paton Center Redux
OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. Well, we opted not to swing by Tony and Julie’s Battiste Bed Breakfast & Birds to look for the…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #7 – Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary Redux
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #6 – Carr Canyon Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #5 – Miller Canyon–Beatty’s Guest Ranch Operation PhotoTrogon…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #6 – Carr Canyon
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. After leaving Miller Canyon we took the road up to Carr Canyon which proved to be…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #5 – Miller Canyon–Beatty’s Guest Ranch
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. IN SEARCH OF WHITE-EARED HUMMINGBIRDS This morning’s destination was to include my first ever visit up…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #4 – Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #3 – Paton Center for Hummingbirds Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #2 – Tucson’s Sweetwater Wetlands Operation…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #3 – Paton Center for Hummingbirds
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. THE PATON CENTER FOR HUMMINGBIRDS – A HISTORY OF HUMMINGBIRDS AND BIRDERS I first learned about…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #2 – Tucson’s Sweetwater Wetlands
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON The name Operation PhotoTrogon came about weeks ago as Rich Brown and I started planning our trip. We discussed the potential top target birds for the adventure and it didn’t take long for us to settle on Elegant Trogon as the clear winner of the…
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Operation PhotoTrogon
On Monday, 5/9/22, Rich Brown and I (Jim Gain) rendezvoused in Turlock, CA to begin Operation PhotoTrogon. Our target lay deep in the canyons of the Santa Rita and Huachuca mountains in SouthEast Arizona. With plans to traverse the most treacherous terrain filled with cold-blooded reptiles, sharp-spined Saguaro and crafty…
Reflections of the Natural World 