Photo Gallery Coronado National Park part 2

This Hubpage is part two. Part one is about mushrooms. Click on individual images to see the full-sized version.

I asked an open question to find out how to ID the natural beauty found on the Sky Island of Carr Peak within Coronado National Park that borders Arizona, United States with Sonora, Mexico. Charlinex answered my question first and directed me to GardenWeb to ID plants.

To ID birds, I went to WhatBird to find the birds I saw. Sorry, but my pictures of birds is blurry. It's a lot easier to take a photo of a flower than it is a bird. I have real respect for those photographers who have sharp clear pictures of birds. Your camera always has to already be 'on the ready' and hope the bird drops into your frame.

That is hardly likely with a Hummingbird - unless you have a hummingbird feeder. Those birds are super- sonic fast . I saw a hummingbird - that was so fast -it went vertical straight up towards the sky of about 30 feet in less than a half a second.. Hummingbird's impossible aerial maneuvers make them the 'UFO's" of the birds. Notice my hummingbird is on a tree branch.

The search engine of WhatBird starts off with 924 birds. Then the list is narrowed down with each value entered. The interactive search engine is used by checking off basic attributes such as location, size, bill shape, bill length, and wing shape to narrow down choices to see and compare photos. I tried under 'hummingbird-like', green, very small but all the hummingbirds had red throats which my little green guy does not have.

So I redid the engine from the beginning and chose different kinds of attributes to ID my bird - which was the following; Needle shaped beak, bill length longer than head and chose small (5 - 9 in) instead of very small. and it came down to one bird that is supposed to have blue highlights.

I don't place great trust on the search engine that give you different birds depending on the order of the attributes entered but it's the best search engine found for ID'ing a bird without any technical knowledge. It is very easy to use.

According to the engine the green bird is a Blue-throated Hummingbird that spends winters in Mexico's lower elevations during winter. There is no blue so if what to make sure can send photo to ask the experts. In order to upload need to join the forum and can have a blog for all your future bird watching. The quality photos of birds on that website are excellent.

At Colby.edu there is a world wide flower plant family identification search but there are no pictures and the user would have to know the language of describing plant attributes.

At MountainNature.com the search engine can be started in different ways but it is still not as easy to use as the search engine at WhatBird. Mountain Natures search weans out by color, then flower and lastly petals. There were no images at all - zero. There are a lot of dead links, no blog, and the search engine for plants asks to select common or Latin name - if I knew that I wouldn't be using a search engine. Not a good place to ID plants by photos.

I'm still looking for a good plant ID website and a blog option so that my memories of the beautiful Coronado National Park will live on forever in a certain way on this website.

Coronado National Park part 1

Coronado National Park Part 3

Coronado National Park Part 4