While we wait for our permanent visas to get approved and power for the house, we putter at projects and find new things in the yard like this huge, gorgeous caterpillar ... I'd be fascinated to know what this beauty morphs into:
... Our latest project created such a sensation that a war raged over it... an avian war, that is. Of course it took the hummers a couple days to figure out the feeder.... I'd colored the sugar water to help them find the feeder and they found that right off, but they were so busy admiring the ruby hue that they initially didn't find the 'nectar', so Paul put a bag over the bottle and it didn't take long for the great discovery to be made ... the only problem was that this fella wasn't the only one to stake the claim:
As far as I've been able to tell, we have at least four types of hummers feuding over ownership of the feeder - the tiniest is an iridescent pale green with a red throat, then there are two medium sized ones: a bluish purple and this teal green one
; then there's my favorite, a big blackish fellow that looks to be 5-6 inches from top of head to tail - he's the guy with a curved beak and also one who is hard to photograph... not that any of them are easy to get pictures of... I've decided hummingbirds are the jets of the bird kingdom (and the butterflies that live around here aren't slouches, either.)
