Hey COBirders, This morning has been uniquely busy with hummers in my yard in NW COS. Calliopes and Rufous individuals arrived a little later this month than average, and unusually, a Calliope male ruled the yard for about a week, even chasing off the pugnacious Rufous males. He left this week, and as normal, now Rufous rule the yard.
We don’t often see more than a handful of different individual hummingbirds in one day, but as soon as I put up the feeders this morning it got busy. So far I’ve been able to identify 3 different Rufous males, (2 adult, 1 juv), 2 different Rufous females, at least 1 Calliope adult male, 2 Calliope females, 3 different Broad-Tail females, and at least 1 Broad-tail adult male. It has been pretty frenetic at times! No Black-chinned yet. We get a few here each summer, and did have a brief appearance by an adult male the other evening. You gotta love Colorado back-yard birding! Enjoy, Steve Brown Colo Spgs, Mountain Shadows neighborhood Sent from my iPad -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/554FAEA1-404C-4355-BAF7-6A625B260A8F%40gmail.com.
