FOS female broad-tailed hummingbird, Douglas County

[John Ealy]

Our first-of-season female broad-tailed hummingbird arrived at 4:15 yesterday (April 19) at one of our feeders. We've had as many as three males, but this is the first female. Also yesterday, In Roxborough's Haney Park, we  had two turkey vultures feeding on a deer carcass; the resident red-tailed hawk pair; one sharp-shinned hawk; and one unknown accipiter and one unknown buteo, which were about 100 yards out so I couldn't nail them with my 10X42s for certain ID. The seven raptor sightings aren't remarkable, but that they were spotted in a 10-minute span is notable. Factor in the  Western bluebirds, Say's phoebes, jousting spotted towhees, bushtits and the regulars, and there were far more birds than people out and about.

John Ealy

Roxborough Park, Douglas County