Beautiful shot.

That’s incredible. What a color! I wonder where it gets its name?

I asked Jacinto and also a Mexico native friend living here in Tucson. Neither one knew what a chami-goma is. You will have to go back to the little stall and try one!

Hi,
I thought of St. George at first because of the dragon, but the scales are characteristic of St. Michael the archangel who is often depicted vanquishing satan in the form of a dragon. You might say the scales tipped the balance for St. Mike.
I’ll show myself out…….
Cheers,
Keith

Little brown birds are hard! I spent way too much time scanning through images before giving up.

I’ve never seen this bird either, but I tried photo matching with the Merlin app and it suggested a palm warbler. Looks plausible to me, especially if that’s yellow beneath the tail. Its hard to be sure from the photo.

Marvelous mockingbird!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_mockingbird

Of course. We must be overtired, or something. How did we miss it?

St George & the dragon?

Perfect photo match, right off! fibrenus gibbicollis - Something in the family, bordered plant bugs... No idea of a common name though...

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100465573

It’s startling to compare this against what they look like in breeding season. Their head is black, like they’re wearing an executioner’s cowl, and the bill is almost crimson.

All very interesting. I'd love to get you a photo or two, but the darned little guys are fast. My best viewing (although not a good one from the lizard's perspective) was a road runner who had a lizard in his mouth. Lunch!

Yup. This is behind our new European strategy of putting the bkes into storage and starting a next trip from where we left the bikes. Hopefully this will reduce the stress of packing, unpacking, finding packing materials, etc. It will, of course, also reduce our funds due to storage costs, but will hopefully be worth it.

I find it pretty stressful, actually. This year with new bikes, I had to engineer different bolts and spacers on the front folding rack to fit around the disk brakes. I had worked hard on it before we left but still was apprehensive about it all working once we arrived. So far so good. Building boxes at the end of a trip also is a two-day job. It’s not a task I take lightly.

When we were (much) younger we seemed able to fly in, set up and pedal off with one day only between arrival and starting out. Now we give ourselves an extra day to recover from the day spent reassembling the bicycles.