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Melissa Crytzer Fry

@crytzerfry.bsky.social

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Writer, citizen scientist, conservationist, naturalist. Sharing a love of nature & the Sonoran Desert thru photos, camera traps. Married to an awesome man. Board Chair, Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance. Fighting to save the Galiuros from copper mining.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · Aug 4

Fighting to save H20 & wildlife in AZ’s Sky Islands (my home). On June 30, BLM approved 67 exploratory drill sites for Canadian Faraday Copper.

Please help! By Aug. 18, 2025, email state and Safford BLM offices. Find easy copy/paste suggestions here: tinyurl.com/3ene6wa6.

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Collage includes images of an ornate tree lizard (turquoise belly); a ringtail (of the raccoon family with a striped tail, but looking like a small cat); the Copper Creek Valley filled with mature cottonwoods, saguaro and ocotillo; a mountain lion walking through lush grass at Copper Creek; a red-tailed hawk landing on a saguaro; a night-blooming cereus; a Lucy's warbler eating from burst, bright-red saguaro fruit; a young hooded skunk, tail erect; and the life-sustaining Copper Creek drainage basin of green foliage among an otherwise brown setting.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 42m

Thank you. Yes, I hope everyone got out of the way!

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, so very bling-full.

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, yes. I can tell... 😉

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing? You got nothing at all? Ugggh. I was going to text you guys to see if you had -- it looked like lots of clouds up your way.

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 2h

Ha ha ha. I get it! I do!

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 2h

Fantastic shot. I tried to go out and get shots last week, but I was standing too close to the feeders, and everyone shied away.

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, that was pretty intense. Glad you got some, too.

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 2h

Fantastic! Are you in AZ?

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, I hear you. Most of the time we get the "51% chance" and nothing drops...

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 3h

Yes! A rarity these days.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 4h

😁😆😂

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 4h

SWOON. You captured their colors like I've never seen them! WOO HOO.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 5h

Fantastic. Do you participate in the monitoring program, too?

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 5h

Um, YEEESS! You needed to use some exclamation points, Holly!

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, Holly! We'd been seeing decreasing numbers for the past 4 years, and this year has seen an increase for sure. Yours are nectar-eating bats, too? How fun to have seen so many in Madera Canyon!

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 5h

This was rather fantastic today! Our wash was a'flowin' and our driveway a'disappearin'. 😆 #ArizonaWeather 1.18" and more to come, I think!

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 5h

Oh - like me!

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 5h

Oh my. How lovely. Thank you so much for sharing. What fun to see them out and about in daylight!

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 5h

It is SO lovely, isn't it?

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 5h

It's just the way the camera recorded them!

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 13h

Me, too. You get a sense for how much 'energy' is flapping about when the video is sped up!~

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you!

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 16h

The video of our gray #fox friend -- and lots of nectar-eating #bats. Caught on #cameratrap

[Wait for the end - 20x speed up to see ALL the bats]

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Marina.

Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 1d

It is REALLY impressive, isn't it?

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