Hummer Report, COS, El Paso Co., Thurs

[Steve Brown]

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

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