At 04:19 PM 3/3/99 -0800, Deborah Raymond wrote:
>does anyone have favorite birding spots for viewing birds in the Arizona
>area, esp in the fall/winter/spring time. I'm thinking of buying a place
>for my mother for the winter months, to let her be a migrating "snow
>bird".

Green Valley, near Madera Canyon (the Santa
Rita Mountains), is a retirement community
(45 and older, ouch, as of last week I
qualify) a couple of hours south of Tucson.

It's about what you'd expect, though, new
tract-type houses, mall-based shopping,
etc. Some folks like this.

Patagonia's in the heart of good birding
country if she'd enjoy living in a more
diverse, smaller, and "normal" (can't think
of a good word here) community.




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