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Adrienne M
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AZ Hobby #nature and #bird photographer, love to #hike, read #books, learn about #science and the world, eat dessert. Curious. Introvert. Just completed section hiking the Arizona Trail. 🥾 She/her

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A black phoebe in the middle of the pistache pink 🩷🖤🤍
#blackphoebe #birdsofafeather #🪶 #ArizonaBirds #birds #birding #nature #Tucson #TucsonAudubon

📍Photo made on the ancestral lands of the O'odham Jewed, Tohono O'odham & Hohokam
A black bird with a white stomach, a black phoebe, perches in front of a mass of pink berries from a Chinese pistache tree in Tucson AZ
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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"That's my secret, Captain: I'm always angry"
#angrybirds #birds #curvebilledthrasher #🪶
A grumpy looking grayish brown curve-billed thrasher looks at you madly with its yellowy eye as it stands on some old wood fencing. The background is cream and khaki
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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A view of the Milky Way from the Rincon Mountains over Tucson AZ
#arizona #mountains #rinconmountains #scapes #nature #stars #milkyway #astrophotography #tucson #backpacking #landscapephotography #sony
#eastcoastkin
📍Ancestral lands of the
O’odham Jeweḍ
Sobaipuri
Hohokam
Tohono O’odham peoples
The Milky Way in the night sky over the city lights of Tucson AZ with a few stripey clouds on the right side from high in the Rincon Mountains at Manning Camp.
October 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Arizona mountain retreat
#arizona #mountains #waterfall #scapes #nature #backpacking #landscapephotography #shotoniphone
#eastcoastkin
Arizona mountain waterfall runs over a rock face into a pool of water while pine trees and blue skies round out the scene
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Wishing for fall and then snow. I’m over the heat!

#nature #desert #mountains #clouds #tucson #arizona #🌵 #naturephotography #⛰️ #hike #scape #desertsnow #landscapephotography

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam peoples
Moody Catalina Mountains with snow on the top featuring Finger Rock are featured behind a large saguaro cactus at sunset and with grey roiling clouds in the sky
October 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The variegated meadowhawk I spotted yesterday in Sabino Canyon

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam

#macrophotography #dragonflies #odonata #nature #bugs #meadowhawks #variegatedmeadowhawk
#🐞
A reddish orange and tan dragonfly poses on a small branch in front of a yellow-tan blurred background with its wings down A reddish orange and tan dragonfly poses on a small branch in front of a yellow-tan blurred background
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Last night’s sunset was a banger 🧡
#scapes #sunset #monsoon #arizona #saguaro #saguaronationalpark #landscapephotography
#🌅 #🏜️
A lone dark saguaro and a small strip of desert scrub against a sunset sky of bright orange to pink and light blue reflected on a huge monsoon cloud and sky A closer view of a lone dark saguaro and a small strip of desert scrub against a sunset sky of bright orange to pink and light blue reflected on a huge monsoon cloud and sky
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Bird is the word
#hummingbird #rufoushummingbird #arizona #tucson #birds
#🪶
An orange, cream, and green rufous hummingbird with black and white tail feathers is caught midair with wings stretched back with a a blue and yellow background An orange, cream, and green rufous hummingbird with black and white tail feathers is caught midair with wings stretched back with a a blue and yellow background An orange, cream, and green rufous hummingbird with black and white tail feathers is caught midair with wings stretched back with a a blue and yellow background and a bit of water in the foreground An orange, cream, and green rufous hummingbird with black and white tail feathers is caught midair with wings stretched back with a a blue and yellow background
August 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I saw this storm hitting midtown Tucson from a mountain viewpoint
#monsoon #weather #arizona #tucson #stormclouds #eastcoastkin #scape
A large column of rain with sun highlighting the right side and the left in shadow hits a valley below a ridge of rocks and trees in Tucson Az A large column of rain with sun highlighting the right side and the left in shadow hits a valley below a ridge of rocks and trees in Tucson Az A large column of rain with a pine tree on the left side and the rain in shadow hits a valley below a ridge of rocks and trees in Tucson Az A large pine tree is on the left of the image and a large column of rain with sun highlighting the right side and the left in shadow hits a valley below a ridge of rocks and trees in Tucson Az
August 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Missing the usual summer storms, we have had almost no rain this summer and it has been very hot 🥵 This is a storm at the Mogollon Rim from a past summer #arizona #summer #mogollonrim #scape #monsoon #skydrama #moody #🌧️
A small oval of blue sky shows through dark stormy clouds over a rocky landscape with bare pine trees jutting from the rocks. The sky is dark gray and yellow tinged at near sunset. This is on Arizona’s Mogollon Rim along road 300.
August 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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No cheating. Post your Lock Screen.
A Lock Screen showing sunset over the white sands national park in colors of grey, dark grey, orange, and dark purple-grey.
July 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Grateful for nature and my fur babies and hiking
A pair of bright fuchsia Arizona willow flowers make a target for a white-lined sphinx moth with brown white and pink wings. The background is green leaves
July 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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June in Tucson is one of the hottest times of year, w/ clear blue skies, & hot hot weather. It’s a time when locals take advantage of school being out & head to the hills/coast. My take: mountain lake!

📍Western Apache land

#lake #⛰️ #🌄
#scape #mountains #mountainlake #sunrise #landscapephotography
A mountain Lake with pine trees through the middle of the photo and a fiery orange and purple cloudy sunrise in the sky and reflected in the lake below. In the foreground, short grass and rocks dot the shoreline.
June 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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My husband and I and our two co-hikers finished the last 67 miles of the Arizona Trail the first week of June. It feels good to be done but now we need a new adventure!
#hiking #arizonatrail #azt #arizona #backpacking #🥾 #tree #trail #NorthernArizona
📍Ancestral lands of the Nuwuvi and Pueblos
A brown trail heads straight through the middle of the photo, surrounded on either side by a strip of grass and other small plants and then at the edges, young aspens with white trunks and green leaves. The sky is dark blue with a few wispy clouds. In the middle at the end of the trail are two tall pine trees. This is the Arizona trail at Murray Lake in Northern Arizona.
June 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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A black-headed grosbeak and a house finch share a snacking teapot at Paton Center for Hummingbirds in Patagonia
#grosbeak #finch #arizona #patagoniaarizona #patoncenter #birds #🪶 #blackheadedgrosbeak
📍Ancestral lands of the
O’odham Jeweḍ, Tohono O’odham, Ópata, Hohokam, &
Sobaipuri peoples
A blue teapot bird feeder hangs in front of a light brown background and a red male house finch and black and orange and white male black-headed grosbeak each take a side and get seeds. Taken in Patagonia AZ
May 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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A saguaro in the evening at camp
#nature #scape #landscapephotography #desert #backpacking #camping #hiking #arizona #arizonatrail #azt
📍Ancestral lands of the Pueblo and Hohokam peoples
A many armed saguaro is silhouetted against a purple blue sky and reddish hills at sunset with dark scrub in shadows at the bottom
May 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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A male and a female vermilion flycatcher at a local park in Tucson
#vermilionflycatcher #flycatchers
#nature #bird #🪶#naturephotography #birdphotography #tucson #arizona #birdlovers #birbs
📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam
A bright red vermilion flycatcher bird with dark wings and a dark bandit mask poses on a stick with long green leaves in the background A female Vermilion flycatcher with dark wings and tail, a streak, brown and tan chest and head, and a slight peach color near its rear end poses on a branch with a white and pale green background.
May 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Wilson’s warbler bath time gets photobombed by another warbler! #wilsonswarbler #bird #warbler #macgillivrayswarbler #birdbath #🪶 #birds #nature
May 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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A MacGillivray’s warbler stopped by my backyard the other day!

#macgillavrayswarbler #warblers #backyardbirds
#nature #bird #🪶#naturephotography #birdphotography #tucson #arizona #birdlovers
📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam
A yellow-green MacGillivray’s warbler, a bird with a dark gray head and white stripes above and below its eye, perches on top of a rock, the photo has a black background and a blurry green leaf in the foreground A yellow-green MacGillivray’s warbler, a bird with a dark gray head and white stripes above and below its eye, perches on top of a rock, looking toward the camera. The photo has a salmon pink background at the top and gold and brown in the middle. The foreground is the rock.
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Thimble Peak at sunset

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam
Blue sky tops a sunset shot of Thimble Peak in Tucson AZ while the foreground is dark saguaro silhouettes and the mid ground is the golden sunset hills of Sabino Canyon.
May 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Birds birds birds

#tucson #desertlife #nature #bellsvireo #vireo #🪶 #cardinal #greentailedtowhee #westernflycatcher #naturephotography #birds #bird #arizona #sabinocanyon
📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam
A cream and grayish tan small bird with a bit of a grandpa beard sits singing on a branch. This is a bell’s vireo. There are some branches and blue sky in the background. A brown and yellow small western flycatcher perches on a branch with light green shrubbery in the background. A red and black northern cardinal otters upwards while perched on a branch, with green background and other branches on either side. A brown, green, and rust colored bird, a green tailed towhee, sits on a branch with a light brown tree and bushes in the background
May 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Lucy’s warbler in a saguaro

#tucson #desertlife #nature #lucyswarbler #warbler #🪶 #naturephotography #landscapephotography #arizona
📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam
A beige and tan bird with rusty tail feathers poses in a hole in an old saguaro cactus in Tucson AZ
April 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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A Wilson’s snipe I saw at Peña Blanca Lake last month

#snipe #wilsonssnipe #bird #🪶 #nature #arizona #birds #birdphotography
📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ & Tohono O’Odham peoples
A brown and cream striped Wilson’s snipe bird poses above a bit of water in the shade along a shore with small stones and decaying oak leaves. The scene is somewhat dark and the bird blends in to its surroundings. A brown and cream striped Wilson’s snipe bird poses above a bit of water in the shade along a shore with small stones and decaying oak leaves. The scene is somewhat dark and the bird blends in to its surroundings. Slightly darker edit. A brown and cream striped Wilson’s snipe bird poses above a bit of water in the shade along a shore with small stones and decaying oak leaves. The scene is somewhat dark and the bird blends in to its surroundings. This is a wider view that shows the bird really blends in to scene.
April 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A scene from the Catalina Mountains in Tucson from a previous spring

#nature #desert #mountains #clouds #tucson #arizona #🌵 #naturephotography #⛰️ #hike #scape #landscapephotography

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam peoples
Yellow flowers and saguaros carpet the slopes leading up to the Finger Rock structure in the Catalina Mountains in Tucson AZ with a clear blue sky behind
April 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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My evening constitutional
#nature #desert #gilawoodpecker #clouds #tucson #arizona #🌵 #naturephotography #🪶 #hike

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam peoples
A big orange cloud hangs over top of a mountain ridge at sunset and a saguaro is prominent in the foreground along with some shrubs A light brown Gila woodpecker with a red circle on his forehead pokes around in some saguaro bloom buds on top of a saguaro with a soft cloudy sky behind A stand of saguaros on top of a ridge stands in front of a big puffy white cloud surrounded by blue sky and in the foreground is dry desert scrub
April 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM