P.S. I'm going to try to get to Grandview today to find the Cedar Waxwings. Is there a time of day you'd recommend, or are they pretty active all day?
Thanks! Natalie On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 5:06:09 PM UTC-6, Dave Leatherman wrote: > > Yesterday Dave Steingraeber, a CSU botany prof and local hummingbird > feeder extraordinaire, accompanied me to Grandview Cemetery to see what was > going on with the newly discovered Black-chinned Hummingbird nest. The > female was on the nest, went off the nest, came back to the nest, *fed > hatched young*, sat on them for a while (a cool storm was coming in) and > went off the nest again. This is the first confirmation of hatching. > > > > > Above: poor photo taken about 11:15am on 25Jly2018 hastily with cell phone > thru scope seconds after the female had finished jamming food down the > throats of her two hatchlings. The babies are not visible in this image > but I did see a reddish bill tip sticking up above the nest rim at one > point. The nest is 20 feet above ground on the north side of a 16-inch > diameter at breast height Douglas-fir, about two feet in from the tip of > its branch. > > > We can sort of assume hatching occurred on the 24th or 25th, and from that > predict activity for the next several days. Incubation is reported in the > literature as being 12-14 days, nestling development 21 days. Thus, if I > am right about when the eggs hatched, activity in the form of the female > feeding young should be more or less continuous and increasingly intense > during daylight hours for the next 3 weeks (until mid-August). Depending > on interest, I would be glad to schedule a session where we all go take a > look at the situation thru a scope. If you are interested, let me know > privately. Assuming this nesting progresses without calamity, I will set > something up for early August on a weekday at 5PMish or 9AMish on a > Saturday. > > > Dave Leatherman > > Fort Collins > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/5da8b18d-1188-4afa-bfcb-b2611a9e6d72%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
