The Painted Redstart (first photo) is a regular at Ramsey Canyon. Fairly reliable to find and photograph. I took many photos of him zooming around the tree trunks pecking away looking for bugs. But this photo I chose because it was a "close-up" and you can see just how beautiful they are. The female Blue Throat Hummingbird can only be found in the United States in the lower end of the Huachuca Mountains. It has a very small range into Mexico as well. We were hiking and she zipped right by me and up into this tree where she started cleaning herself. Almost immediately into our hike a sharp shinned hawk few across the trail from one side to the other. On the way back we found its nest. The fourth photo was a red skimmer (dragonfly). There were many in the various pools only the canyon's creek. Then the last photo is a vinca, a wildflower often found in the gardens of Arizona.
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