Would have loved to have seen that!

Willienathan, VERY story!

 

 

Well I got a few but all the shots I thought I had with multiple birds turned out to have no birds - they'd moved out of the shot before I took the picture.















Bonus shot:

Red wasp taking a drink out of the pool. They drink so much that they're barely able to fly off.

 

Good pics, Raymo. Anytime you can actually snap a pic of these little guys, you've done well. The coloring on the bird in the second pic is unlike the ones we have.

I was buying some feed for the hummers today and chatted with a woman buying a feeder. She too has noticed much more activity and a lot more of the "turf wars" going on with the hummers, just in the last few days. She says she has about 12 of them in her yard. She lives one town over from me.

I decided to also buy another feeder, we now have three. We have three hummers that I know of, and they still are fighting over the food. Guess they haven't figured out there's one feeder for each of them.

They were all over the place this evening, scaring each other off, flying over the deck, coming closer to us than they usually would. They truly fascinate me......can you tell?

 

They're baaaaccck. Don't know where they've been or what took them so long but the annual wars have begun anew. The male and his mate that nest in the elm tree have real competition now for the first time this year.

I hear his angry chirping almost constantly with the cloud cover this afternoon and he's been very busy protecting his turf.

 

I've got three that I know of. One with the very bright ruby throat, one with a bright green back, but no red marking, and another with dull greenish colors.

I had two at the same time at one feeder the other day, generally, they only show up one at a time.

 

Lainey, generally the only hummingbirds east of the Mississippi are Ruby-Throated. The males have the red throat markings, the females don't. I cannot explain the difference in the green colors, unless it is the way the light catches the feathers. From certain angles, the red throat on males just appears to be a dark color; from other angles it's bright red.

 

Yeah, the male birds are so much prettier.

I love the ones with the ruby throat, so pretty.

We also have a pair of cardinals around. The male is beautiful, the female could use a little color.....maybe a little blush.

 

The male has the better color to draw off predators therefore protecting the "dull" camouflaged female. This increases the likelihood of his genes being successful.

but then again what else is new
the guys are always sacrificing for the females.

 

You guys are just too good to us.