Birds seen on a long walk in the Bear Creek Greenbelt:

Snowy Egret

Juvenile Cooper’s Hawks

Great Blue Heron

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Great Horned Owl

Sage Thrasher

House Sparrow

From the Bear Creek Greenbelt this morning:

Beavers

Black-crowned Night Heron

Female Rufous Hummingbird in my back yard:

In Genesee:

Male Rufous Hummingbird

Rocky Mountain Arsenal:

Bison

Male Rufous Hummingbird in my back yard:

At Chatfield Farms:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

This morning in Empire, Colorado:

Turkey Vulture

Violet-green Swallow

Weidemeyer’s Admiral

Mourning Cloak

The remaining Broad-tailed Hummingbird nestling in the Bear Creek Greenbelt being fed:

Broad-tailed Hummingbirds

And moments later, it becomes a fledgling!

Scenes from the Broad-tailed Hummingbird nest in the Bear Creek Greenbelt.  The nest is definitely getting too small:

Broad-tailed Hummingbirds

Another view:

Broad-tailed Hummingbirds

And then one fledges!

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

The remaining nestling is transfixed:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Until it drops off to sleep:

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Another flying creature in the greenbelt that’s even smaller than a hummingbird:

Ebony jewelwing