First pics

Saturday, 7:48 pm

By Kate

May

19

2007

The weather is utterly atrocious today. Not a very good day for taking pictures. Nevertheless, one of my hummingbirds spent a few moments at the front porch feeder a while ago and I turned myself into a pretzel trying to get a photo of it.

If I could get this much of an image aimed through the window blind at 7PM with rolling fog and a very fine mist on the window, it can only get better from here.

This feeder has a perch ring surrounding it, which the hummers seem to like. I suspect that may be why this particular feeder gets more business than the one on the back of the house.

I’m not sure how many hummingbirds I have. There are at least two, but the front feeder empties out a lot faster than the one hanging off the deck.  More than what one bird could eat, I would reckon. There is never more than one who visits (per feeder) at a time, though. So far, anyway.