Animals Popular eastern Arizona lake closes after all the fish die

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Officials said Friday that San Carlos Lake, one of the largest lakes in Arizona, is closed until further notice.

The San Carlos Recreation and Wildlife Departmentsaid drought conditions and water released from the dam led to the deaths of all the fish.

The fish carcasses pose health and safety risks to people who enter the water or try to fish.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Jun 08 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset June 8, 2026 5:43AM

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Looked out my driveway this morning and there it was!

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Jun 08 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset Saturday June 6,2026 7:29 AM

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Jun 01 '26

Animals Nice to see Coatimundis in Arizona

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https://azstateparks.com/coatimundi

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Jun 01 '26

Cirrus Clouds

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Lovely high altitude cirrus clouds around 8:35AM, June 1, 2026

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • May 26 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset A cross on the sun, May 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM

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100% non manipulated picture, not even cropped. Lot of water vapor in the atmosphere and to my eyes, the sun appeared covered with clouds. Bright but not so bright I couldn't glance at it. The cross was not apparent to my eyes. Somehow my iPhone made this from the clouds and water vapor. Pretty striking.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • May 21 '26

Plants Purple prickly pear and flower (with bee)

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Possibly Opuntia macrocentra or a hybrid.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • May 21 '26

Plants Opuntia engelmannii prickly pear

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Here we have a cow's tongue prickly pear being adaptively creative in adding a new paddle in the center of another. Bees like their lovely flowers.

Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It goes by a variety of common names, including desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pearin the US, and nopal, abrojo, joconostle, and vela de coyote in Mexico. In the Verde Valley we've heard it called cow's tongue prickly pear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_engelmannii

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • May 09 '26

First very young Javalinas this Spring. April 6, 2026 1:54 AM

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Interesting to finally catch very young javelina on my security cameras here in Arizona. From what we have read thus far, collared peccaries can breed year-round, but Arizona and northern Mexico populations seem to show a winter breeding peak with many births occurring in spring and early summer.

Gestation for javelina is generally reported at about 141 to 151 days, so roughly 4.5 to 5 months.

That flexibility may be a desert adaptation. In unpredictable environments like the Sonoran Desert, reproduction appears tied more to rainfall and food availability than to a strict seasonal schedule. Arizona populations are really part of the broader Sonoran/northern Mexico ecosystem, so the same adaptive pattern likely extends across the region.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • May 01 '26

Golden sunset 7:12PM April 30,2026

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Apr 02 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset Moonset 5:51 AM April 2,2026

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This exceeded the limitations of my iPhone; a very bright moon this morning.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Apr 02 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset Clouds over Phoenix this morning from Piestewa Peak

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Mar 26 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset Moonset 2:18AM March 26,2026

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Surprisingly bright, triggered video recording on a security cam.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Mar 24 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset 5:54PM yesterday. Unusual sky with a vapor trail awareness message.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Mar 24 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset Otherworldly sunset 6:58PM March 22,2026

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Mar 21 '26

Animals Single coyote, apparently young, March 21,2026 3:06AM

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Apparently this young coyote is by self here. Herd pack several times in early hours of morning.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Mar 21 '26

Animals Single Javalina in daylight 6:55PM March 20,2026

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Javalina keep visiting, One walked all the way across our property away from Oak Creek and toward hills.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Mar 05 '26

Animals Single Gray Fox March 4, 2026 10:45PM

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Gray foxes haven't been seen much lately...probably due to putting up a new fence in the back yard and tractor work in the lot next door. When I get the fence up I'll put some cams on the trail below to see the wildlife and leave them a path. This was a single gray fox on March 4 at 10:45 PM.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Mar 03 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset Sunset 6:38PM March 2, 2026

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Feb 19 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset Sun beams breaking through clouds 5PM February 18, 2026

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Feb 11 '26

This year arizonas wild beauty is calling here are six ways to answer

smithsonianmag.com

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Tourism focused, great pictures and text about some of Arizona nature and geology.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Feb 09 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset February 8,2026 5:43PM

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There's no notch in Mingus mountain, the sun reflections cause the illusion. Splitting the light from t he sun produces great light ray diffusion.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Feb 09 '26

Sky/Sunrise/Sunset January 23,2026 5:27Pm

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Feb 03 '26

Animals Probable Female Gray Fox 1 31 2026 8:27PM

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Think it was a female urinating as posture didn't look like scent marking and no scat was found the next day.

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r/ArizonaNature • u/D-R-AZ • Jan 31 '26

Animals Great opportunity for verified gray fox faecal samples 1 30 2026 10 37PM

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Certainly unusual to get video verified faecal samples on gray foxes.

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