Today I saw a first-of-season Broad-tailed Hummingbird (male) in my back yard.

Two Great Horned Owlets remain in the nest in the Bear Creek Greenbelt.  Here’s one:

Great Horned Owlet

Mama Great Horned Owl snoozing:

Great Horned Owl

The fledgling completely sacked out:

Great Horned Owlet

West in Bear Creek:

Hooded Merganser (female)

Here are a couple of birds that are back in the Bear Creek Greenbelt this spring.

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Common Grackle

Meanwhile, the sole fledgling has not been joined by its siblings.

Great Horned Owlet

The nest:

Great Horned Owlet

Papa Great Horned Owl being harassed by American Crows:

Great Horned Owl

With one fledgling nearby, here’s Mama Great Horned Owl keeping a close eye on two unleashed dogs in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:

Great Horned Owl

The fledgling:

Great Horned Owlet

Two owlets left in the nest:

Great Horned Owlets

A burst of sunshine from North Georgia woods:

Pine Warbler

This afternoon in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:

Great Horned Owlet

Mama Great Horned Owl preening

Papa Great Horned Owl snoozing

This afternoon it was cool and windy in the Bear Creek Greenbelt, yet the trees are beginning to leaf out.  Here’s Mama Great Horned Owl keeping an eye on the nest:

Great Horned Owl

Scratching an itch:

Great Horned Owl

Feathers on the back of Mama Great Horned Owl’s head:

Two of the three owlets:

Great Horned Owlets

This morning a House Wren visited my back yard . . . at least a couple of weeks earlier in the spring than in past years, and one of the first reported in Jefferson County this year.

Here it is calling:

This morning at Rocky Mountain Arsenal:

American Avocets

Bald Eagle

Bison taking a dust bath

At an urban park:

Eastern Screech Owl

In the mid-afternoon in the Bear Creek Greenbelt, all the owls looked hot and cranky:

Great Horned Owls

All three owlets in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:

Great Horned Owlets

Another view:

Great Horned Owlets

Mama Great Horned Owl was across Bear Creek, preening:

Great Horned Owl

A dapper Song Sparrow:

Song Sparrow