After a couple days at the Buenos Aries National Wildlife Refuge we moved a bit north for a day at the Saguaro National Park. We found all shapes and sizes of saguaros, and with each one having a bit of its own character, it was hard to stop taking pictures of them.
After leaving Whitewater Draw we continued our westward progress across southern Arizona. We made a brief stop in Tombstone, but as I mentioned before, there wasn't much for us there. We spent the night in the Coronado National Forest near Patagonia and the next morning we headed to the Paton Center For Hummingbirds. Started in the 1970's by Wally and Marion Paton and now operated by the Tucson Bird Alliance it illustrates what a couple…
After a day in the Chiricahua Mountains we continued to move west across southern Arizona to our next stop at Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area. Somewhere along the way of looking into potential destinations I had read that sandhill cranes overwinter there in large numbers so we decided to drop in and check it out.
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