I was watching a tiny hummingbird (approx. 1" tall) perched on a limb. Then, all of a sudden, I noticed this pygmy owl sitting on an adjacent branch looking straight at me with its bright yellow eyes. It was about the size of my fist (4" x 2.5"). Its belly was white; its head and back were brown.

These are terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad photos. The owl looks like a blob. I forgot my camera battery, so I was reduced to using my old cellphone camera, which takes awful pictures. A one-in-a-million chance and I blew it. 😢 This is only the 2nd time in my life I've seen an owl in the wild.

In addition to the hummingbird and owl, there were two Bewick's wrens and a couple of smaller birds in the same tree.