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Tucson Bird Watching Meetup Group

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What we’re about

This group offers a non competitive birding environment where people can enjoy the local natural world with others.

Bird walks will be guided and geared toward making everybody in the group feel welcome.

We will bird mostly in and around the Tucson area.

We are open to all ages and abilities. Most of walks will be slow paced with little elevation gain covering at most 3 miles over the course of two hours. Usually less.

There is no charge to join our events, and we are not affiliated with any business.

When the birding gets slow as it often does some days, we will encourage others to share their birding observations, whether it be describing Magpie antics in your back yard, or how you located an Elegant Trogon in Madera canyon Arizona, we want you to share your story.

Upcoming events

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Sat, Oct 18 · 08:00 MST
Bird Watching at 8000' in the Santa Catalina Mts
Palisades Visitor Center, Mt Lemmon, AZ, US
Let's drive and/or carpool up to the 8000' altitude and meet at Le Buzz at 7:30 am and then head up to the Palisades Visitor Nature Center for a morning of high altitude bird watching. The nature center sits on the left side of the Mt Lemmon Highway and is very easy to find.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/coronado/recarea/?recid=77641

The Yellow-eyed Junco you see above was working on the forest floor foraging on the ground for seeds and insects, uncovering them by shuffling or scratching in the leaf litter. There will be warblers, grosbeaks, acorn woodpeckers, gnatcatchers, flycatchers, buntings and hopefully many other species that maybe some of you have never seen.

I asked if we could as a group utilize the back parking area which is large and flat and they told me at the nature center that we could. There's a road that goes back into the forest also that we will explore. It stays at or on the ridgeline so it's relatively flat also. There are a couple of hummingbird feeders at the nature center too.

Let's wait to see how many individuals will want to sign up and then design a carpool once we get to Le Buzz on the corner of E Tanque Verde and Catalina Highway. I look forward to seeing you all soon! Hopefully this will be a trip that also includes the change of colors in the canopy. FUN!!
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Art Reisman and 1 other

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