Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Series produced by KXCI
Petey Mesquitey is KXCI’s resident storyteller.
Every week since the spring of 1992 Petey has delighted KXCI listeners with slide shows and poems, stories and songs about flora, fauna, family and the glory of living in southern Arizona.
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March really is the month of change around all of us in the borderlands of southern Arizona. How fun to celebrate the arrival of turkey vultures, t...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 04:47
Petey loves Platanus wrightii and daydreams of streets lined in huge unruly sycamores. He’s a dreamer.
Of course sycamores in the wild are magnifi...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 04:53
Anxious for some early morning light and something green in the grassland, Petey remembers an early blooming wildflower to look for in the nearby h...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:06
Fall is just a blast with all the late season blooming plants, so maybe instead of a festival for all the different species, we could consolidate a...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:01
I am not that great at identifying native grasses, but I keep on trying . Thank goodness some are really quite easy to ID and that makes me feel so...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Autumn is the season of migration for many avian species and in the borderlands of southern Arizona hummingbirds are passing through, sparrows are ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 10:30
The Loggerhead Shrike is common, but still a fun sighting when your are out in the field.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 04:55
This show could also be called Typha latifolia and Grus canadensis, which has a nice scientific ring to it.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:13
Petey peers into an old bird nest in a tree and discovers the work of a deer mouse.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:14
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 1
