Kendall Kroesen, Habitats Program Manager
Turns out spring is pretty exciting at our new offices at the Mason Center! Some Tucson Audubon staff, including me, moved our offices up here in mid December. We survived some cold weather, and now are enjoying spring.
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| Desert globemallow |
We observed the first lizards to emerge—including whiptails, zebra-tailed and spiny lizards. And now we’re seeing plants blossom and birds nest! A beautiful male Costa’s Hummingbird is coming to our feeders and doing its whirring territorial song and dizzying display flight.
Curve-billed thrashers are nesting in a big cholla cactus. Baby birds can be heard in a Lesser Goldfinch nest high in a palo verde. And a House Finch pair has a nest with three eggs in it, all hidden deftly in another cholla.
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| Thrasher nest |
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| Female House Finch near nest |
The beautiful passion flower trellised up the side of the house by the front door has three flowers, and seems to have many more unopened ones in store.
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| Passion flower |
Spring has sprung.
More information about the Mason Center is here: www.tucsonaudubon.org/masoncenter
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