Birds at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

In an attempt to catch up with my blogging, this is my final post from the Desert Museum.  We are currently in Hollister MO and I paid for a weeks worth of internet, so now I can try to catch up on the blog that was lacking during our long days of driving, eating tuna salad and sleeping in parking lots.  It feels good to be settled for the next seven days.

Here is the wrap up from Desert Museum:


There are birds throughout the museum, some wild and some part of the exhibit.  One of my favorites was when I was leaving at the end of the day and came across this woodpecker digging into the ocotilla bloom.

There are two aviaries here, one which is most mourning doves and then there is the hummingbird aviary, which is my favorite.

 

Gambel's Quail

 

We were very lucky to have three different nests to view.  It really helps to have the assistance of a docent to find these as they are incredibly tiny.

How the mother fits in there is amazing enough, but to have two or three young ones is even more so.

Thank goodness it's a very rapid process of laying the eggs, hatching and having them out of the nest.  It wouldn't take long at all for them to outgrow the home.

The nests are described as decorative instead of messy and I liked that analogy and will use it to describe our own nest on wheels.  It ain't messy...it's decorative.  Works for me!

Long Live the Queen of the Nest With Wheels