Monday, March 26, 2007

They'rrrrrrrre back......

We had just finished supper. Dishes were loaded into the dishwasher. I was downloading the photos that Sarah had taken today. Sarah walked to the front door and GASPED!!!

"HUMMINGBIRD!!!"

We grabbed the camera and waited... Last summer we finally got hummingbirds to come to our front deck. And they came in groves!

We had been tracking the spring migration on hummingbird.net, so we had set up one of our feeders on the front deck and one in the Paulownina tree on the path to the goat pen. Fresh sugar solution (4:1) was prepared - very similar to Georgia Sweet Tea!

The sun was low in the west and light was fading quickly this evening. But we were able to get several decent shots.



We saw at least 3 of the teeny emerald and ruby buzz bombers - all males today. We can't wait for the chance to take more photos of the hummingbirds in full sunlight!