This afternoon I was on my back deck with my camera when hummingbird drama ensued:

Late yesterday afternoon at Bear Creek Lake Park:

Mule deer fawn

And a late-nesting Broad-tailed Hummingbird:

Hummingbird nest

Adult female returning to nest

Up in Genesee:

Rock Wren

And in Weld County:

Great Horned Owl

Great Horned Owl

Barn Owl with young

At Bear Creek Lake Park:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird moments before fledging (see what it looked like in the August 10 and August 5 posts)

Female Broad-tailed Hummingbird on nest with two eggs

A nesting Broad-tailed Hummingbird in Bear Creek Lake Park:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

This appears to be the same owl I saw the other day:

Great Horned Owl

At Bear Creek Lake Park:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird at nest

Broad-tailed Hummingbird feeding nestling

At the Bear Creek Greenbelt, a beaver enjoying a cattail:

At the Bear Creek Greenbelt early this morning:

Mama Beaver and her littlest one

A Broad-tailed Hummingbird in my backyard:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird (male)

At Bear Creek Lake Park a pair of Broad-tailed Hummingbird nestlings:

Broad-tailed Hummingbirds

Upstream on Bear Creek a female Broad-tailed Hummingbird fed a nestling:

Broad-tailed Hummingbirds

And then settled in:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

In the Bear Creek Greenbelt this morning:

Beaver

This morning in the Bear Creek Greenbelt Mama Beaver snuggled beside her littlest one:

Beavers

At Bear Creek Lake Park a female Broad-tailed Hummingbird with her (presumed) second clutch:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Not far away:

Great Horned Owl