It figures that the hummer would be too much of a prima donna to show up on the same day as all those other spring creatures. April 8 has actually been hummingbird arrival day on at least 2 of the 11 years we've been here, but my first hummer was obviously waiting to make a grand entrance. She buzzed up to the feeder while I was washing my dinner dishes around 6:00 this evening. She was very hungry. I'm sure her friends will be along soon.
Color plate illustration from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904. Image via Wikipedia.
5 comments:
It's because you're listening to Shankar ;-)
I hope you hear the merry flutter of many more soon.
We always compete to see who sees the first lightening bug. None yet.
I hadn't thought of it, E, but I'm sure the hummers would love Shankar. If I ever want to drive them away I'll crank up the volume on Finntroll!
No lightning bugs here, Bozo. We almost never see one until May, but everything comes a little later to our micro-climate. My dogwwod hasn't even started blooming yet, though I notice a lot of the ones in Nashville have.
I love that green-breasted one on the bottom on her 2 eggs!
Mary, you always notice what I miss! She is beautiful.
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