Peppersauce Canyon with Luke Safford

Friday, May 16: Peppersauce Canyon, 6:30am – 12:00pm

$35/member, $50/non-member

Trip Difficulty: Moderate to Hard. The road/trail leading uphill from the Peppersauce Campground is wide, but a bit rocky in places and is at an incline. We will walk up about 1.5 miles making for around 3 miles round-trip.

A fairly under-birded canyon on the north side of the Catalinas, Peppersauce offers great habitat for a number of mid-elevation birds including Acorn Woodpecker, Mexican Jay, Bridled Titmouse, and Scott’s Oriole. We’ll be a little late into spring migration but that also means that many of our breeding birds will be in full song in the morning. We’ll have the potential for good numbers of flycatchers, warblers, and orioles. Montezuma Quail have been heard up here too! We’ll start birding at 6:30am from the parking area, carpooling will be available. Limited to 10 participants.

Leader: Luke Safford (lsafford@tucsonaudubon.org)

Header image: Ash-throated Flycatcher by Shawn Cooper