Wildlife & Related

[Mazin]

Here's my garage garage guest from the other day. Little guy came in and stayed for about two nights and left. The women in the house is who left the dish of water and couple prices of dog food btw. He could have fit in the palm of my hand.
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[Irving]

Wife got a few decent cell phone pictures of pelicans at Barr Lake the other day. Pretty fun watching all the different birds flying around. A couple times several hundred birds would fly back and forth across the lake all at once. Took more than a minute each time for them all to fly past.

[Hummer]

Love the American White Pelicans. Watching a group of pelicans herd fish on a lake is pretty amazing. I know they're common on the plains of northeast CO, but pelicans are unusual on the West Slope. I've only seen a few here.

[Bailey Guns]

Funny you posted the pelican picture. There are a group of them on the Snake River I've been trying to get some pictures of. Fascinating to watch them fly. They're far more graceful in the air than you'd think they'd be watching them on the water or just looking at them.

[Bailey Guns]

Saw this little guy at the feeder and noticed the odd looking beak/tongue. Any of you experts know what type hummingbird this is and is this normal?

[Bailey Guns]

Saw this little guy at the feeder and noticed the odd looking beak/tongue. Any of you experts know what type hummingbird this is and is this normal?

ETA: Mrs BG says it's a female broadtail. There was just another, much smaller one, on the feeder with the same issue on the beek.

[Hummer]

It's not normal but bill injuries are somewhat common in hummingbirds. This bird's lower mandible is offset and curved upward, preventing the tongue from correctly laying in the channel. It's probably due to a collision, possibly with a window or screen.

Mrs. BG is probably right about it being a Broad-tailed, and it appears to be a juvenile female. Another photo might provide more information. Rufous and Calliope hummingbirds are migrating through now, too.

[ThunderSquirrel]

[Bailey Guns]

He doesn't look happy at all!

[Bailey Guns]

Five-lined or blue-tailed skink? Not sure what to call this guy. But they're tails are a pretty amazing shade of almost neon blue. He's probably about 6 or 7 inches long. Had to take the picture through the kitchen window. They are very skittish.