Today while sitting in my car, in my driveway, I saw a yellow and an orange finch. I also saw 2 hummingbirds! (These are obviously not pictures of the birds I saw. I just wanted to set some ambience for blogsake.) This is why I love my bush. That and it's just so beautiful and makes me smile warmly when I look at it. After seeing these things it didn't matter to me that there was no sun. The birds were playing and having fun. There was one big loud buzzing sound coming from the bush. This was from the hundreds of bumblebees hard at work. A couple of them dive bombed me. I think they thought I was going to mess with them.
This prompted me to hang up my hummingbird feeders. I could sit all day looking out for and watching hummingbirds. I wish I was able to capture some real pictures of them today but another time. Actually, we do have real pics of a hummingbird that Kev is holding. For some reason it was sick. We think it was beat up by it's brother or something. They get real territorial. Anyways, we took it in because it wasn't flying away. I'm surprised it didn't die immediately. The poor thing's heart must've been beating as rapid as it's wings usually go. So we took it in and kept it in one of those big rubbermaid bins. This is all we could find that was 'cage' like so Airiel wouldn't eat him. We kept it in our bedroom with the door closed and fed it sugar water. Although I know they feed off of more than that usually but at the time we really weren't sure what the problem was or what to do about it. About 5/6 days later we go in the bedroom to check on it and it's not in the bin! We knew it was around somewhere, but where? It was so exciting cuz this must've meant he felt better, enough to fly now anyways. We finally found him on a curtain, up top on the rod. We opened the window and it started flying around in the room. Which was scary because it's a small room and this bird has a needle beak. Finally it flew out the window and I think I cried just because it was all so moving.
Anyhow, that's my story for today. :) I'll look for the pictures.
2 comments:
oh i love hummingbirds! my mom has one that hovers the forsynthia bush next to the house. i'm so glad you nursed one back to health. they are so intriguing and strange and beautiful - they kinda remind me of robots the way they move like that. ha.
nice post! i bet you love your bush. haha
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