My first day of Spring

I have had to be away from Tohono Chul Park for nine days. In my absence, spring arrived. The flowers are flowering, and the birds are nesting. The desert tortoises have emerged from their dens.  It is beautiful and thrilling. Best of all, the first white-winged dove of the year  arrived today, though I did not get a photo.

Penstemon

Mexican honeysuckle                                   Texas Mountain Laurel

            

Bluebells and gold poppies in the Cactus Circle

Desert Tortoise                                            Cooper’s Hawk Nest

            

Mourning dove nest in a yucca, and, below, a verdin building a nest

Verdin working on a nest

 

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