Casa de San Pedro Bed & Breakfast

Right on schedule our Summer Monsoon Rains seem to be starting their engines – for the past two nights we have had nice thunderheads growling their way around the area – boom, boom, boom.  Not a lot of actual rain for us so far, but we can see dark skies around us and the towering thunderheads churning in their airborne tumult.  The Monument Fire did get doused a bit by one thunderstorm, lessening its rage.  The fire appears to be much more under control now and many of our favorite birding locations have been spared.  All of our evacuees have returned home safely to very little damage – even though many homes were lost in the mountain canyons.    All Spring and Summer long we have noticed that many birds normally found in the mountain canyons and upper elevations had come to the river for food, shelter, and WATER – since it has been so frightfully dry.  An Elegant Trogon was spotted in the park in Bisbee yesterday – far afield from its normal nesting area – but not unusual for this year.  Finding birds will be an exciting adventure into new locations, but they are still in the area – especially along the San Pedro River.  Our feeders are booming with happy birds that have never before been sighted on the river.    The Monument Fire was intense in some locations, but it also raced through other areas with low intensity – presaging a rapid return to vegetation, food, shelter, nesting habitat for the many birds in the area.  One Forest Service expert predicted that the monsoon rains would turn his “Gia Pet Mountain” green again almost overnight.