About Dancing Turtle Tank

Dancing Turtle Tank is located on the eastside of the Chiricahua Mountains, in SE Arizona. At an average of 4500 ft in elevation, it is sandwiched between Chihuahuan Desert scrub and Oak grassland. Dancing Turtle Draw runs along the North side boundary with a string of Live Oak, Manzanita, Rhus, and some Beargrass. The draw gets diversity from the plants from the higher Oak, Juniper woodlands. Dancing Turtle Tank sits at the confluence of Dancing Turtle Draw and an unnamed wash that has the North and West slope as its watershed. This is also happens to be the driveway to our home.

The tank has lots of critter activity. Songbirds, Deer, Bobcats, Javelina, are just a few of the visitors. Two legged visitors are occasionally seen filling their water jugs at times. In winter it is one of the few sources or unfrozen water in the immediate area.

This blog will describe the daily activity Around Dancing Turtle Tank.