Hi all, we had two (FOY) Broad-tailed Hummingbirds at our feeder this afternoon. For us (at our home) it is about 10 days early.
The two pairs of Northern Pygmy-Owls that I have been monitoring ,both began incubating last week. Also yesterday, while monitoring a Northern Goshawk nest, we saw the pair attacking a juvenile Goshawk. At one point their was a lot of cackling and birds flying around. A bit later, we saw an adult Gos fly off with a medium sized black colored bird. It may have been a woodpecker or even a crow. It was hard to tell as the hawks were moving rapidly through the woods and the prey was badly torn up (as it was partially eaten). It may have been that the juvenile hawk entered the territory of the adult birds and killed the creature, then the adults hawks took the prey item from the juvenile. In the end the adult female ate the bird and returned to it's nest area. We only stayed a brief while as the female would not return to her nest. Incubation began at least a week ago and interestingly enough this pair is reusing a nest that they had used two years ago. Scott Rashid Estes Park -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
