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| Hummingbird Nest with Chicks, Inner Parkside |
I've been saying the nest was in West Portal, but a look at a map shows the location as Inner Parkside. I only happened to look at a map because I wanted to figure out a good route to reach a second hummingbird nest that I spotted yesterday while my wife and I were out for a walk in Golden Gate Park.
The nestlings will probably be ready to fly as early as next week, or as late as the 25th. If I have any further updates on these nests, I'll post them here.
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| I could only see two chicks being fed for sure. |
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| This is what we saw yesterday, and also what I found when I dropped by today -- what looks like an empty nest. |
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| The mama hummer seemed to be hanging around the neighborhood, alternately feeding and resting. |
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| I went around to the other side of the nest and saw that it does in fact hold what appeared to be two chicks. |
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| It was very sunny on the nest, and I hope the babies all survive the coming heat wave. |
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| This mama's nest was a lot more fuzzy than the Parkside nest. I like the addition of the little male pine cone. Probably a lot of the fuzz is horsehair. |
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| Feeding Time |
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| It was a short trip to the Bison Paddock where I spotted a tree swallow hauling a big clump of plant material into the nest box. |
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| The hubbub around the nest boxes between the swallows and the bluebirds seemed to have stopped during the last week, so I wondered if the birds were already brooding eggs, but it looks like they aren't quite there yet. |
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