A video of a Broad-tailed Hummingbird on my back deck:
September 20, 2023
September 19, 2023
Tonight, on a decidedly rainy evening, three of us braved the Bear Creek Greenbelt to search for the owls.
We found “Wonky Eye” all fluffed out, shaking off the wet.
For a brief moment, the sun peeked through the clouds, and “Wonky Eye” flew up to a branch in the open, and dropped its wings to dry them.
A little later, darkness falling, the two adult owls were dueting.
September 18, 2023
On a windy, slightly rainy late afternoon in the Bear Creek Greenbelt a friend and I found “Wonky Eye” holding on to a tree.
It flew up to a small branch and struggled to balance in the wind.
And it was calling:
Mama Owl perched nearby, seemingly unperturbed.
September 16, 2023
September 14, 2023
September 13, 2023
In mid afternoon in the Bear Creek Greenbelt I saw a Red-tailed Hawk circling overhead. After I got home and looked at the picture, I saw it was banded. It’s most likely “Mama,” who was banded in 2016 in Sterling, and whom I’ve been watching in the greenbelt since 2019. More here.
A second Red-tailed Hawk joined her and put on a dangling legs display.
A third was circling even higher. A short time later I saw an immature Red-tailed Hawk with a vole beside Bear Creek.