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Sous, Do you get many hummingbirds in your area? They love mosquitoes as much as flowers. Up in my neck of the woods they show up a bit late for the first hatch, but after that they pretty much do the job. Last summer I was filling four large feeders every day. The hummers loved me and so did Speckles sugar!
Yes, we get a lot actually. My wife has 3 different hummingbird feeders on our back patio that stay pretty busy. I did not know that about the hummingbirds, maybe they help keep the mosquito population down too then.
They are pretty cool, usually you can hear them before you see them.
These are great photos guys! I love seeing how other people enjoy their homesteads. Like Sous said, keep 'em coming. Zach, that view is something else.
I still have to get a fresh picture - I've lived here for 11 months and we are in the best time right for pictures right now. The orchard across the cove is in blossom, and the air is filled with bird sounds - red-winged black birds, doves, ospreys, robins, and the song birds I haven't identified yet. It's nice to watch those and the killdeer, kingfishers, coots, ring-necked ducks, blue heron, bald eagles, otter, Canadian geese, mallards, trumpeter swans, and every other critter that finds sanctuary in our cove. During hunting season, you can almost walk across our cove across the backs of waterfoul without sinking.
In the mean time, I need to keep up with the spectacular photos you guys have been posting. I live on the Columbia River.
And this was on our vacation last summer (Lake Roosevelt, WA - behind Grand Coulee Dam)
Having my 92yr old grandfather living with me, and the fact he dont move good, i try the simple things to keep him amused. Got a few bird feeders hanging around along with 2 hummingbird feeders. Them things here are territorial. Out back, if its not the bright green one feeding, its a beautiful red one that i call, sawed-off. Tiny lil bugger...lately though, considering all the windows here at the pad, the doves are trying to fly a different path. 3 dead in the last week from what i think, theyre breaking their necks..(will refrain from posting pic)....On to greener pasture, hitn FISHMAS tomorrow (opener in mammoth) for the weekend. Will post pics when back.
The humidity in the N. GA area has been more of a rain forest lately. The rain has filled all of the lakes and rivers, but dangit can we get some sunshine soon?
OK.... I took some pictures and perused the SD card in my camera. Apparently, I took some pictures I hadn't downloaded yet.
I work for a company that packs fruit, and one of our plants packs pears. As we pack, we sort out the fruit we don't want going in a box - and the "garbage" gets set out back until it can be loaded on trucks. Apparently deer like pears - so this is a common site behind the pear packing plant.
Coots, ring-necked ducks, and Canadian geese all take turns dominating the cove during certain phases of winter. On this day, it was the coots' turn.
We call this osprey "Oscar", and we can pretty much set our smart phone clocks to the time he shows up every day. I say "he" and "Oscar" because he's always fishing, we know he has a mate (which we haven't seen in a while), and we assume the mate is on the nest. I need to do more reading on ospreys, because as far as I know - I could have the roles of the sexes messed up.
A few years ago while we were draining the canal feeding one of the power houses we called fish & game to rescue a large trout in the canal. An osprey beat them to it. Pretty impressive to watch.
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