May 6: Hummingbirds!

[gerisullivan]

Yesterday, I picked up a new hummingbird feeder. Late last night, I boiled sugar syrup, let it cool, filled the feeder, and hung it just outside my office window. I sat down at my computer about 10 minutes ago. A hummingbird came by just a few minutes after that. Whee!

(They may well have been around sooner if I'd hung a feeder, though in the past, they've coming looking for it even when it's not there. Sometime between May 5-10 really does seem to be their arrival date here.)

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[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I decided long ago that clean sugar solution was beyond me, so I have a hulled sunflower feeder. The cats and I watch the birds and I say things like "Look! That's the daddy cardinal! That's the mommy mourning dove!" but all they care about is size.

(And there's the mommy cardinal!)