Hummingbirds

Last year we found a hummingbird nest in our backyard. Broad-billed hummingbirds used the same nest again this year.

Both eggs hatched this time.

But one day a baby was out of the nest and it turned up in the turtle's water dish! The baby bird was under the water with just its little beak and face sticking up out of the water.

I pulled the bird out of the water and placed it back on the nest. It looked okay. I went in the house and watched from the window as the parent tended to it right away. Both babies stayed in the nest three more days.

Last year I got this picture of a mother feeding her fledgling after it left the nest:

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Roadrunners

Mom was sitting on the patio when she noticed roadrunners in the backyard. She knocked on the window to alert me so I could take pictures. We both saw four roadrunners, but I could only get three at most in a picture. The birds all looked about the same size but at least one roadrunner was being fed by another.

Spring

Hello! These pictures were taken in February and March before the spring season officially started.

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Hummingbird Nest

Last month my husband discovered a hummingbird nest on an oleander bush that he was about to trim.

mother broad-billed hummingbird

The hummingbird had fastened the tiny nest onto a dried branch in a way that was hard to see, but once I knew where to look, I could view it from the kitchen window.

mother

Only one of two eggs hatched.

The baby grew quickly

baby hummingbird in nest

and was soon out of the nest.

baby

mother hummingbird feeding baby

Just in case the mother hummer wants to use the same nest again, we'll wait awhile before trimming the oleander bush.

Linking to Saturday's Critters at Viewing Nature with Eileen.

Spring Birds

Here are some pictures from April and May. I saw the desert birds on nature walks and took most of the yard bird photos through the window.

Desert Birds

roadrunner in a tree

phainopepla

rufous-winged sparrow

Gambel's quail

cactus wren gathering nesting material from a saguaro

pyrrhuloxia

black-throated sparrow

white-winged dove

Yard Birds

finches

goldfinches

white-winged dove and mourning dove

cardinal and house finch

house finches - red and orange

orange house finch

western tanager

broad-billed hummingbird in a nest

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