Snowbird season...

 

Like all the Fall/Winter/Spring seasons that have preceded this one, it's also the season of the Snowbird. 

Junco- the real snowbird according to the National Audubon Society

Unlike the photo above a snowbird can also be a critter that takes flight in the fall and doesn't land until late spring flowers are on the trees and bushes. Their wings are their RV. Or maybe just a car with overnight lodging at a motel or a relatives house. 

Before the USA pissed all over the Canadians with our politics they were frequent winter visitors here in SKP Saguaro Co-op and in Benson. Dunno about this year but those Canadian dollars were (are?) an important percentage of the annual budget for this park. 

The reality is I've launched into something I'm not qualified to address since Economics was my worst subject in college. Mmm... actually that's not true. My worst grade was in Business Law. So apparently my son had his genetics-cards stacked against him when he chose to become a lawyer. Sorry Brad!

Snowbirds visiting the park. This shot is of (mostly) RVers that have come here to the
San Pedro Valley just for the cold weather season.

Fwiw, snowbirds in Florida arrive not only in RVs but also via boat, private plane or they come by way of a commercial airline, Greyhound bus or even a train. Not a lot of tourists are interested in the San Pedro Valley so we have a, mmm... more selective group of seasonal visitors. Who ever heard of San Pedro Valley in Arizona before stumbling across this blog?!

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And in case it's unfamiliar, "fwiw" is "for what it's worth". And you may also come across "btw" here which is "by the way".

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