Wednesday we spent the day puttering around Cochise Terrace. Vic washed the car and took all the dead bugs off the front of the RV plus installed the thermostat for the transmission fan (more to come on this).
We never used the heated pool at the resort but did take time to relax in the hot tub in the afternoon. Very enjoyable!
Thursday we headed south to Sierra Vista to visit 2 areas with walking trails along the San Pedro river. They are both supposed to be good sites for bird watching. The first spot we visited was the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. The outstanding part of that visit was the siting of a mule deer who walked out onto the path about 100 ft in front of us, took a good look at us, then bounded off towards the river for water. We saw one hummingbird from a distance.
Next we went to Hereford Bridge to walk the main trail there. We saw white-breasted nuthatch which are much larger than the nuthatch we see at home plus there were Gila woodpeckers, cedar wax-wings, and gold finch. The big cottonwood trees seemed to be the best site to spot any birds.
Friday we moved on to Justin's Diamond J RV Campground on the southwest side of Tucson. It is 55 miles from Cochise Terrace but it is a lower elevation here (2471 ft) so about 10F degrees warmer than Cochise Terrace in Benson. The weather here was 80F at 1pm when we arrived.
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