Amazing! Check this out . . .

We have quite a few hummingbirds that hang around our house as we keep our hummingbird feeders full all winter.  It is rare that we go outside and DON'T hear a hummingbird buzzing by or hear them calling from the trees for us to move away from the feeder!

This morning, two hummingbirds managed to make their way into our garage; my husband had the large door open.  One of them couldn't figure out how to get back out of the garage and was 'stuck' hovering around the window on the side of our garage trying to get out.  My husband and Boyson were trying to scare him towards the door, but he was really not getting it.  I think the little bird was getting tired, because he actually stopped flying and sat in the window sill. So my husband grabbed a small wooden dowel and the little hummingbird actually hopped onto the dowel and sat on it long enough for me to run and get the camera! 

 

 He did finally fly off the stick and out the door when my husband started walking towards it.  

Wow!  What a neat thing.  You don't see that everyday!

Baby Birds and a Squirrel

We have two baby birds in this nest box outside right outside our living room window. We saw the mom and dad bird building the nest, but thought that maybe it had been abandoned when the activity seemed to have stopped, and I found a dead bird out on the ground below the box. But just yesterday, we saw the mom feeding them and two wide mouths in the opening! It has been so cool to be doing school and to watch the mom bird working hard feeding those babies! I hope you can see their little open beaks in the hole. I don't have a good zoom on my little, inexpensive camera; plus I was taking the picture through the window. If you click on the photo, it will open larger, and then you can probably see them. The mom bird was actually right there on the fence to the right, and they must have heard her and were sticking their beaks up in readiness.

This little squirrel let me get quite close to take his picture. He very bravely comes into our yard because we have an oak tree that drops acorns. When our dog sees him, as she did last week, he runs up this tree, and she jumps all around at the bottom of the tree trying to get at him, and she smashes all my plants. The plant at the base of the tree on the backside is the one she smashed. Grrr!