Well, I also saw two coyotes crossing the adjacent patch of nudeveloped ground. And the following morning (when I had the camera handy), I didn't see the roadrunner...
But that level of heat is just madness. And the water demands of a city the size of Phoenix are ilkely to be unsustainable in the medium to long term.
I'll settle for the higher semi-desert of the Burro Mountains in SW New Mexico. Just nudges close to 100 briefly before the "monsoons" hit (which was happening this week - they got three inches of hailstones in Bayard just after we left, I'm told).
If you get to see them close up, they are very colourful (speckled rather than uniform brown, and with red and blue on the head).
Dry heat is more bearable then humid (I couldn't cope with jungles for any length of time), but anything in the high 40s/110s is well beyond normal human endurance. It really isn't liveable.
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No snow
No ticks
Dry
The desert is a wonderful place...
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But that level of heat is just madness. And the water demands of a city the size of Phoenix are ilkely to be unsustainable in the medium to long term.
I'll settle for the higher semi-desert of the Burro Mountains in SW New Mexico. Just nudges close to 100 briefly before the "monsoons" hit (which was happening this week - they got three inches of hailstones in Bayard just after we left, I'm told).
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Dry heat is more bearable then humid (I couldn't cope with jungles for any length of time), but anything in the high 40s/110s is well beyond normal human endurance. It really isn't liveable.
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I had a a large flock of blackbirds in the backyard blue spruce, and I thought of your similar incident.
Heard the Great Horned Owl a few weeks ago, too.
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Great Horned Owl would be cool...
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