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Great thread and much appreciated. My wife (WA native, with next to no experience in the southeast) just did a solo week-long road trip from Charleston to Nashville investigating communities around bass fishing reservoirs scouting locations in NW South Carolina, NW Georgia, NE Alabama, and...

Lover your jungle. Super jealous. Growing up in semi-rural Alabama, it was impossible for my parents to have hostess. The whitetails would eat them to the ground every time.

Was out this AM looking for landscape shots and saw heron fishing at low tide. After I got my normal shot, threw the 600 on and got a couple of the GBH despite the tough back lighting. The other shot. Heron Fishing At Low Tide

Follow-up... My daughter is in Tucson right now on a birding trip and spotted a Coppery-tailed Trogon at Madera Canyon. Her pics below. I hd no idea they nested in woodpecker holes.

I'm ashamed of myself for never having done this given the amount of time I spend on those beaches walking the dog. JimK schooled me on methods a while back but still haven't tried. Gotta get on that this summer. There are also the short-finned grayling that are always around but not at the...

There isn't much access public bank access on the Sol Duc and the part of the Calawah that is accessible will be very low in July most years. Neither are well known for trout fishing. There are some coastal cutthroat around but most of what you'd catch would be steelhead and salmon parr...

Carpenter Bee coming in for a landing on a Prickly Poppy. Gopher Snake interrupting my bike ride. Thought it was a jingle worm and slammed on the brakes.

Yep, Montezuma Quail. That's what we were looking for down in Patagonia yesterday. No luck! But plenty of other cool stuff.

100%. Especially the Patagonia area, which doesn't "look like AZ" to anyone wha hasn't been there. Very green and lush in the creek valleys and cooler due to the almost 5K' elevation. Super birdy.

Yes, and Florida Canyon very close by. Thought we heard one once as they have a very distinctive call but no luck. The tough thing there is that they like the same spot that is the easiest hiking trail so their are always a lot of people trying to do the asme thing. These days they go by the...

Around the rental: Curve-billed Thrasher Costa's Hummingbird Down in Patagonia, AZ near the border. Very uncooperative Hepatic Tanager Acorn Woodpecker

A few from the back yard and adjacent wash today. Frumpy looking Cactus Wren. These are 2X the size of our little Pacific Wrens and half as cute. Ash Throated Flycatcher Vermillion Flycatcher that keeps pooping on my car...

In Tucson to visit the in-laws and do some cycling and hiking in the sunny desert. Gambell's Quail Tom turkey terrorizing the trailhead parking lot. Bad shot of a Broad-billed Hummingbird feeding in Desert Honey

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