Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part I. Two on a Mountain
We Get the Job
We Survey Our Area
We Arrive at the Reef
Miller Peak Lookout
Birds on Our Sky Island
Tubby the Rock Squirrel
Buck Joins Our Group
The Lookout's Life
Of Mice and Skunks
Along the Trail
The Little One
The Fire Season Winds Down
Coati Neighbors
Part II. New Ventures in the Old Pueblo
Old Acquaintances
Mountain House
Construction Begins
Museum Collections
Redtail Hawks
Opening Day
Nature Trail at Saguaro
Saguaro National Monument
Baboquivari
Bats
Theories on Pollination
Photographing the Bats
A Park Naturalist
Black Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake Bite
Spring in the Desert
San Juan's Day
We Leave Saguaro
Part III. The Return to Tucson
Back to the Desert
Night-Photography Equipment
Sabino Canyon
Gray Fox
Sabino Skunks
Raccoons and Ringtails
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
We Visit Ajo
Quitobaquito
History of Quitobaquito
Crepusculars
Sonoran Summer
Part IV. Life in Ajo
Quijotoa Trading Post
Creatures of the Night
The Kit Foxes
Kangaroo Rats
Adaptations
Castor and Pollux
Stars and K. Rat Communication
Part V. Down at the Ranch
Listening in the Dark
Lee and Bonnie Price
Bird Visitors to the Water
Sonoran Fall
Phainopepla and Mistletoe
Hawks and War Planes
Dogs and Night Walkers
The Vulture's Nest
Mountain Lion in the Pepper Tree
Gila Monster
The Gecko
Scorpion
Tarantula and Tarantula Hawk
The Rain and the Toads
Colorado River Toad
"Rat"
Your Visit with Rat
Foxy
Addendum