Bushtits are now roaming in flocks of a dozen or more again.  Here’s one in my backyard:

Bushtit

Hummingbird action has ticked up.

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

But perhaps the hummingbird that got hung up in the feeder yesterday (see video in 8/21/24 entry) is injured, even though it did end up flying off.  I’m not positive it’s the same hummer, but twice today I’ve seen a hummer slumped at the feeder.  Both times when I went out on to the deck, the hummer flew off, albeit slowly.

Hummingbird

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