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

A Black-chinned Hummingbird (male) in my backyard:

Broad-tailed Hummingbirds in my backyard:

In the late afternoon in the Bear Creek Greenbelt, an owl that looks a lot like Papa Owl:

Great Horned Owl

This morning in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:

A young Hooded Merganser

Beaver

Mourning Dove

And at my back deck:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Up in Genesee at close of day:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Immature Western Bluebird

First Calliope Hummingbird (male) of the season in my backyard:

This morning in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:

Double-crested Cormorants

Great Horned Owl

Four-spotted Skimmer

Yesterday I saw the first Rufous Hummingbird of the season in my backyard.  Today I was able to take a video of it:

Tonight in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:

Immature Great Horned Owl in grass

Two of the Great Horned Owl siblings

Immature Red-tailed Hawk

At Rocky Mountain National Park today:

Mule deer

Dusky Grouse

Dusky Grouse chick

Dusky Grouse chick

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Glamour shot:

White-tailed Ptarmigan

If you’ve looked repeatedly at Rocky Mountain National Park for a White-tailed Ptarmigan and haven’t found one . . .

White-tailed Ptarmigan

. . . even with an eye open, they’re not so easy to see:

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Marmots

Pika

Northwestern Fritillary

This evening in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:

Immature Great Horned Owl

Deer

Mama Blue-winged Teal and five young

At Denver Audubon, in Littleton:

Yellow-breasted Chat

This morning at Rocky Mountain National Park, a pika gathering flowers:

Pika

Pika

Pika

Pika

Here’s a well-known, one-eyed pika:

Pika

The pika wasn’t the only one gathering food:

Marmot

My nemesis bird, no longer:

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Greenish Blues on the west side of the park:

Greenish Blue (male)

Greenish Blue (female)