Dobson Central Photography

I had a fun weekend. We took a drive down to Lochiel, Az this past Friday for the weekend and I was able to get in some photography time along with riding a Honda 250 4-stroke quad that my sister now owns. We were going to stay the whole weekend, however, due to the weather and some uncomfortable sleeping arrangements, we all decided to come back a day early. We plan on going back in a few weeks, once everything starts to get green down there. I already have a couple of spots picked out for some possible landscape photos for our next visit, if the weather and sunsets are better. I’ve posted a couple of photos in the gallery from this trip.

For those of you who enjoy getting out into the country and are avid bird watchers, there are a whole slew of birds down in Lochiel. Campgrounds are available over at Parker Canyon lake if you want to stay a few days. Lochiel is about a half hour drive away and it’s all open country. It was in the open country where I was able to photograph the mule deer. Lochiel is the first spot in Arizona that I have ever seen this many turkey vultures and peregrine falcons at one time. There were a whole bunch of other birds that I wasn’t able to identify or photograph but plan to, if opportunity presents itself and the birds will stay in one spot long enough. I didn’t get to see any owls this time around, but I did hear them at night. I also managed to capture a peregrine falcon in flight (below) and a cute looking calf. The falcon wasn’t good enough to enlarge so I didn’t put it in the gallery. Even though these aren’t in the gallery, they’re worth sharing here in the news. Click on the images to see the larger version.