Showing posts with label black-tailed gnatcatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black-tailed gnatcatcher. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Wildlife of The Azure Gate Bed and Breakfast - Part IV


Continuing with some photos of wildlife taken since the pandemic started:

Anna's Hummingbird

Ash-throated Flycatcher

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Black-tailed Jackrabbit


Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Gnatcatchers



Three of the four US gnatcatchers can be found in Arizona: the Black-capped, Black-tailed, and Blue-gray.

The Black-capped is rare to the United States, only found in the Santa Rita Mountains.

Black-capped Gnatcatcher
 The Black-tailed Gnatcatcher range is Southwest Texas, and the southern parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and California. This little gnatcatcher nests here at The Azure Gate and with some persistence can usually be found, often in pairs:

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
 The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher's range is more widespread, the only gnatcatcher found outside the Southwest. It too nests here at The Azure Gate, though a little less often seen than the Black-tailed:

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher