Wednesday 18 August 2021

[cobirds] Re: Two late nestings at Littleton, Arapahoe Co

To follow up on the tardy Broad-tailed Hummer nest at Littleton Cemetery...  I was not able to view it again after 8/15 until today 8/18. The effort has failed. Today the nest was gone from its twig, as if a predator destroyed it, or maybe the wind blew it out. I could not find any remains of it.

David Suddjian
Ken Caryl Valley
Littleton, CO

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 7:10 PM David Suddjian <dsuddjian@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/27 I found a female Broad-tailed Hummingbird at a new nest in a spruce at Littleton Cemetery, the first hummer nest I've found there. Since then she has been sitting on the nest, apparently on eggs (can't see in), and she was sitting yet today. This suggests maybe at least 18-19 days of incubation which is at the outside end of the norm, and the nest is late for a nest with eggs for this species.

Two fresh juvie Cooper's Hawks appeared begging at St Mary Church along S. Prince St. this morning. They weren't around earlier and seemed pretty new. I see most Cooper's families fledging by early to mid-July. I hadn't had any other families in the greater neighborhood area there this year.

David Suddjian
Ken Caryl Valley
Littleton CO

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