Sweetwater Wetlands Park in Tucson, Arizona is truly a desert oasis created by reclaimed waste water; a birders paradise! "He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water." Psalm 107:35 Desert Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus magister, native to the Chihuahuan Desert and Sonoran Desert of southwest North America. A fully grown desert spiny lizard will reach a body length of up to 5.6 inches. Photographed in June 2018 in Sweetwater Wetlands Park, a reclaimed wastewater treatment facility managed for wildlife habitat in Tucson, Arizona. While birding may have been my primary purpose on this morning walk at Sweetwater Wetlands Park, I found there were lots of other creatures that inhabit this riparian paradise in the midst of the Tucson desert. Sweetwater Wetlands Park, Tucson, Arizona. June 10, 2018 Red-eared slider turtle in duckweed swamp bog. Photographed in Sweetwater Wetlands, a reclaimed wastewater treatment facility managed for wildlife habitat in Tucson, Arizona. It is a stream riparian oasis in the southwestern desert. Duckweed filled ponds are surrounded by Cottonwood, Willow, Saltbush, Bulrush, Cattail, Mesquite and Wolfberry. Photographed in June 2018. Round-tailed Ground Squirrel, Xerospermophilus tereticaudus, known as `Ardillón cola redonda` in Spanish, live in the desert of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. Photographed in Sweetwater Wetlands, a reclaimed wastewater treatment facility managed for wildlife habitat in Tucson, Arizona. It is a stream riparian oasis in the southwestern desert. Duckweed filled ponds are surrounded by Cottonwood, Willow, Saltbush, Bulrush, Cattail, Mesquite and Wolfberry. Photographed in June 2018.
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