I’ve had LOTS of hummingbird pictures over the last seven years at the West Hills hilltop house. When we picked this new house in Hesperia we had no idea if we would continue to have hummingbirds to host in our yards.
I started seeing a hummingbird around the yard the first day that we were moving in, but it wasn’t until today that I found the feeders and food in all of the chaos. I didn’t know how long it would take for the birds to find the food source – turns out it was literally about three minutes.
We’ve got this wonderful patio and pergola in the back yard and it’s perfect for hanging our feeders. We probably won’t throw bird seed out for the finches and other songbirds since we have astroturf instead of grass and I’m concerned about the mess that birdseed might make, but I figure two hummingbird feeders and two birdseed feeders should be a good start on rebuilding a personal bird population here at our Forever Home.
Cleared for landing! The sunset silhouette view from about 20′ away was perfect!
This is actually when this bird returned (assuming it’s the same one that came almost immediately when I put the feeder up). Once I get a couple of feeders up I’ll keep an eye out to get a better idea of how many birds we have in the area.
Click on this one to blow it up to full sized – I don’t think I’ve ever caught one with its beak open like this. WIERD! LUCKY!!
Last weekend when I was cleaning out the old house and packing the truck, the hummers there definately knew that something was up. Where I would often see as many as five or six at a time zooming around the yard, there was one point when it was probably three times that or more. (They’re tough to count when they won’t hold still!) There’s still plenty of flowers there, but someone else will have to feed them if/when new tenants take over.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 