Lloyd and I sat on the porch this afternoon and enjoyed more feathered visitors. A hummingbird baby!!! Visiting the feeder to fatten up before it's vast journey south in a couple of weeks! It's amazing how fast they grow - they HAVE to grow from the tiny pea sized egg to the bird that has to fly so far by mid August. A female (unless the young don't have the ruby throat straight away).
The only way we could really tell it was a baby was by it's behaviour rather than it's size - it just seems so much more 'skittish' than the adults that were flying around us at the feeders. None of them care about us sitting so close on the porch - they mind the children who are noisy of course, but they don't mind us sitting just a metre away - or even closer at times. Neither do the chickadees who come to the feeders we have by the chairs.
It was lovely sitting there with various birds coming and going. I can't wait to have the wraparound porch finished with all kinds of feeders hung all the way around. We have plans for deer feeders in places too - from a plan we saw on another blog. Filled with corn to attract deer to watch. All winter long. Today we were looking at Spruce trees to buy so we can attract squirrels and Nuthatches and other types of birds that deciduous trees don't attract.
It's wonderful seeing all this wildlife and watching it come back each year - seeing the 'families' grow and return :)
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