Continuing East from Madera Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains you reach Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. BANWR is 150 square miles or so butting up against the Mexican Border. I remember once being greeted by a pair of Great Horned Owlets (first photo). The sunrise passing through the tree in which it sat yielded a very colorful result. The second photo is a Swainson's Hawk. It was one of the first I had photographed, even though it has a fairly wide distribution in the West. The third photo is a Turkey Vulture who wanted to convince me that, contrary to movies and folklore, are actually very beautiful birds. And, since they prey only on carrion, they do us a tremendous service by eliminating a source for maggots and flies. Tomorrow, the primary attraction of BANWR, the endangered Sonoran Pronghorn.
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