Date May 24, 2022
Location Dornan's Pizza Pasta Company, Grand Teton National Park, WY
We arrived to eat lunch after our river raft adventure. As we exited the vehicle, Logan and I heard a buzzing sound that we couldn't really identify but sounded intriguing. We went inside the restaurant.
North of the restaurant is a short paved trail to the Snake river and a small historical display of an old river ferry. As we sat at our table waiting for our pizza, we looked out the window in that direction and saw two hummingbirds. After eating, we decided to investigate further. At first, we didn't get our binoculars because it seemed like a long shot, but after seeing a fox and another hummingbird, we ran to get our optics out of the Jeep.
The Broad-tailed was spotted first (another species is described in the next entry). He kept coming back to the same perch over and over just a little ways down the path. The photo above is our actual photo of this bird, taken by Mieka on her iPhone. Unfortunately, the sun was mostly behind the bird from this vantage point, so the throat was mostly black, but we did manage to see a little magenta on the edge of the throat.
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