HOLIDAY DINNERS -

OK we know its a bit early to start thinking about the holidays. BUT, now is the time to reserve your spaces for:

•     Thanksgiving Dinner at the Casa!  Roast Turkey plus all the traditional dishes in a fabulous spread for your dining pleasure.  Join us for a fun weekend - Lots to do besides the feast! Bisbee has its weekend celebration which is fun.  And, head to Whitwater Draw to see 1000's of Sandhill Cranes and tons or waterfowl - and that little guy will above will have moved from the Casa to Whitewater Draw for the winter....  interesting move on his part.
•     Christmas Dinner at the Casa!  Another opportunity to savor the season with our traditional Roast Prime Rib dinner.  Served Christmas evening (12/25).  Remember, there is also good birding in our mountain canyons and along the San Pedro River, just outside our back gate.
• Call for reservations at (9888) 257-2050.

Great Bird Watching Any Time of The Year!

 The Sky Islands (ridges of mountains with valleys in between) of SE Arizona provides ideal habitats for resident and migratory birds throughout the year.  Certainly Spring Migration and the Fall Migration bring wide varieties of birds through the area.  Some birders flock to the area for Spring Migration, but forget that the Fall migration is also rewarding.  The Spring Migration ( mid March through Mid May) will offer different species each week with many colorful and diverse species.  And for a real treat an agile birder can head to the top of the Carr Canyon and see incredible mixed flocks of  Warblers.  Then work your way back down through numerous Huachuca mountain canyons (Carr, Miller, Ash Canyou, Ramsey Canyon, Coronado National Monument, and Gardern and Huachuca Canyons on Fort Huachuca.  So many birds to see!  Then working through the broad grasslands and finally down to the crown jewel of birding habitat: The San Pedro River itself (where it just so happens that Casa de San Pedro B&B is ideally located!).

Fall Migration offers many of the same opportunities (late July - mid October) when the area is especially loaded with up to 13 species of hummingbirds as they wend their ways southbound for the winter. Hummers are one of the prime species that birders want to track in the Sky Islands.  Several spcies are not otherwise found in the U.S.  - they idnore the ugly border fence and zip into our valleys and mountain canyons to also enjoy the ideal habitats of the area.

And it just so happens that the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory does Hummingbird Banding in the Casa back yard on Friday afternoons, from late March through early October.  What a treat!  Hold a rainbow in your hand as you release a hummer after it has been banded by our expert team. 

Haiku Box installed at Casa de San Pedro! See what you are missing!

 HAIKU BOX INFO:

A haiku box is a web connected listening device that identifies the birds in the vacinity of the box.  The Haiku Box listens, collects events of bird songs, tweets, hoots etc and logs all the bird sound events.  The logs for Haiku Box sites are available on-lne.  

You can purchase your own Haiku Box for your own back yard.  Or you can just sign up for a free Haiku Box account on thier website - from which you will be able to locate the many backyard sites in the US - and link to them to see the list of birds that the site has logged recently.

With our Haiku Box we have been alerted to many transitent birds that zip through our back yard, visiting our many feeders, and chirping up a storm!  It is easy for us to quickly review the list of birds that Haiku recognizes and then spend time making sure that we get to see them as well!

Here's a link to our Haiku Box