Thursday, September 16, 2010

Hummingbirds

I LOVE hummingbirds. I went out front to feed the fish a few minutes ago and a female black-chinned came up and hovered a foot in front of me. She turned away and fed on the Turk's Cap in the front flower bed, then came to look at me again before flying off.
Of course I didn't have my camera, but the pic above was from last weekend, when another female was guarding "her" backyard against invading migrants. I ran in to get the camera when I saw what I think was a Ruby-throated male, but she had run him off by the time I got back outside.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Squatty Potties

As part of my Fulbright-Hays scholarship, we had to create a "personal narrative" of our trip. Here's mine.