Baby Hummingbirds at Yolo Bypass
So I got a glimpse of a hummingbird nest at Yolo BypassHummingbird sitting in nest at#yolobypass - thanks to@ucdavis Prof. David Rizzo and wife who I bumped into and who pointed it outpic.twitter.com/qHRxfz2Fgl— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 6, 2022And this was amazing for me - might be 1st hummingbird I have seen in field on a nest since 1988 when I studied Broad tailed hummingbirds at@RockyMtnBioLab with Bill Calder— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 6, 2022Here are a few higher resolution pics (now that I got home)pic.twitter.com/2HXkxJmSKc— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 6, 2022 And then I went back and got a better look at it , with babies ...Follow up from a few days ago ..BabyHummingbirdsInNestI did not want to disturb so stayed really far away (this is cropped and was taken with a 500 mm lens)But still -- OMG OMG OMGhttps://t.co/DboPEDSfkPpic.twitter.com/ceI3HnQa1Z— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 18, 2022 And I posted some videos too
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