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Birds and Bees
Jun. 11th, 2006 02:54 pmBrandon and I sat out on the front porch this morning, watching the robins bringing nesting materials to the kiwi trellis. Not only do we get to observe their comings and goings, but we should be able to get some extra income in the form of rent...
While we were watching them later in the day, a hummingbird came into the feeder. He took a sip, backed up and hovered, and then repeated, about ten times or so before he took off into the Middle Woods.
Even later in the day, as I tended the firepit (in other words, as I sat back in a chair in the shade, just outside of the smoke,) a very large red tailed hawk glided over the treetops, the sun backlighting him and making his wings glow.
Very beautiful.
Oh yeah, almost forgot the bee. She's the reason we were out in the yard looking at the robins. I'd say she was two to three feet tall... erm, okay, two to three inches long... definitely a queen-type bee, at least twice the size of the bumblebees or carpenter bees.
While we were watching them later in the day, a hummingbird came into the feeder. He took a sip, backed up and hovered, and then repeated, about ten times or so before he took off into the Middle Woods.
Even later in the day, as I tended the firepit (in other words, as I sat back in a chair in the shade, just outside of the smoke,) a very large red tailed hawk glided over the treetops, the sun backlighting him and making his wings glow.
Very beautiful.
Oh yeah, almost forgot the bee. She's the reason we were out in the yard looking at the robins. I'd say she was two to three feet tall... erm, okay, two to three inches long... definitely a queen-type bee, at least twice the size of the bumblebees or carpenter bees.
