My apologies for the absence of a post the past couple of days. This is our busiest time of the year and the record cold temps last week created some problems that I have had to attend to. Now that those problems are solved I will try to be a little more diligent about the posts. One of the sadder moments as a result of the cold was a tragic loss of one of our male Anna's Hummingbirds. I have him in our freezer until I can get him over to the Tucson International Wildlife Museum where they are asking for hummingbirds to set up a new display. Yet, yesterday I was pleased to see a new face --- at least this time of the year. It was a Broad Billed Hummingbird. The Broad Billed is a year round resident in Mexico's Sonoran desert. Its summer range extends up to the Huachuca, Santa Rita, and Baboquivari Mountains that are along the Mexican/US border. So, while they are not here in huge numbers, they are "relatively" easy to find in those mountains from April to September. The Broad Billed is a infrequent visiter to The Azure Gate during the summer months. We get a few and they seem to stick around for a couple of days at a time. But, here it is mid-February and this particular one was kind enough to stop here for a visit -- and let me take a photo. Maybe it is a sign that Spring is coming early. As you can see the Broad Billed is a quite beautiful bird:
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