I would be interested!
Thanks for sharing the photos.
-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.  
>
>
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>
> 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
>

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