I was sitting outside and IT drove me crazy...
Apr 10, 2014 15:52:43 #
I have a large yard with a couple of fruit trees. The orange trees are in blood, flagrant ant everything.
I was sitting enjoying the breeze, the bird songs when a bumble bee came in and started his own business collecting pollen that is. That made me think of the day before when I had missed another more interesting visitor: a hummingbird. I went inside and took my camera. Of course the darn thing was gone.
Thinking about it the hummingbird was back, all green, going from flower to flower, collecting sugar. Of course I did not have my camera but having learned my lesson I did not move and just watched. It left.
So tomorrow I will be back waiting on that critter to return, armed with a camera. I am positive that my wait will be in vain and I just will have to recall the humming to mark it's passage.
I was sitting enjoying the breeze, the bird songs when a bumble bee came in and started his own business collecting pollen that is. That made me think of the day before when I had missed another more interesting visitor: a hummingbird. I went inside and took my camera. Of course the darn thing was gone.
Thinking about it the hummingbird was back, all green, going from flower to flower, collecting sugar. Of course I did not have my camera but having learned my lesson I did not move and just watched. It left.
So tomorrow I will be back waiting on that critter to return, armed with a camera. I am positive that my wait will be in vain and I just will have to recall the humming to mark it's passage.
Apr 10, 2014 16:05:08 #
Hang a hummingbird feeder with some sugar water in it and you will have all the hummers you can shoot. :thumbup:
Apr 10, 2014 16:13:17 #
Rongnongno wrote:
I have a large yard with a couple of fruit trees. ... (show quote)
I don't know whether to feel sorry for you missing the shot or jealous that your weather is so much nicer than ours, its still all brown and yucky here
Apr 10, 2014 16:45:24 #
wilikioti wrote:
Hang a hummingbird feeder with some sugar water in it and you will have all the hummers you can shoot. :thumbup:
Good advice here. There are some hummingbird feeders that have something you can stick to the window, it makes for good viewing inside also. I used to hang a window box of flowers under the window with the feeder on the window and the hummers used to flock there.
Apr 11, 2014 08:12:32 #
MARTYIV
Loc: On the Wabash
Ron.........: Hang a RED feeder. I did this a couple of years ago. The Hummers have become so accustomed to me, I can approach within 3' of them. When the feeders need refilled they will buzz within inches of my face and look me straight in the eye!!
Apr 11, 2014 08:43:50 #
True signs of spring! The ideas of the feeders are good. Hope you don't have bears in your area; they love to suck them dry, as do racoons. I've seen a hummer dive bomb a young squirrel to drive it away from their feeder, and have also seen two hummers fighting each other for the nectar.
Enjoy them!! They haven't shown here yet, but I'll get out the trusty 70-200L when they do.
Enjoy them!! They haven't shown here yet, but I'll get out the trusty 70-200L when they do.
Apr 11, 2014 09:34:40 #
ottopj
Loc: Annapolis, MD USA
Hang a feeder, grab a cup of coffee, forget the camera, and just sit there and enjoy nature!
Apr 11, 2014 13:23:49 #
ottopj wrote:
That is what I do, with cup of chocolate (Instant cafe mixed in it)Hang a feeder, grab a cup of coffee, forget the camera, and just sit there and enjoy nature!
Apr 11, 2014 15:38:00 #
re the hummingbirds... I discovered with close observation over an extended period of time that if you provide a source of nectar (feeder or flower) they have a very good schedule for feeding. For example, they like my aloe vera when it blooms and they make a circuit from nest and back that will include my blooms...and they will return every 20 minutes like clock work throughout the feeding time of day. Spend time observing their return patterns and until they leave to complete their migration, or they find another nesting sight, the pattern will give you a guide for when to photograph them.
Apr 11, 2014 18:26:36 #
mslubner wrote:
Thank you. It does seem to come at the same time every day (When I am dead tired from working in the yard carrying dirt from point to point B, if not C)...
Apr 11, 2014 18:38:11 #
gusto7670
Loc: Tampa, FL
the one that got away is always more interesting, especially if you embellish the story.
Apr 11, 2014 19:13:02 #
Rongnongno wrote:
I have a large yard with a couple of fruit trees. ... (show quote)
Melt some sugar into just a very little bit of water and then pour it onto a flower or even the leaves of the plants that the bees visit and they will come, they will stay, and if you ask them nicely they will even pose for you.
Apr 11, 2014 19:16:11 #
MARTYIV
Loc: On the Wabash
Rongnongno wrote:
Thank you. It does seem to come at the same time every day (When I am dead tired from working in the yard carrying dirt from point to point B, if not C)
I am sure there are 1617-year-olds in your neighborhood willing to work for 10 bucks an hour in cash. And if you're anywhere near my age they can do in one hour what it takes me four hours. Try it buddy
Apr 11, 2014 19:57:29 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Thank you. It does seem to come at the same time every day (When I am dead tired from working in the yard carrying dirt from point to point B, if not C)
The easy answer to that problem is a change in attitude. GOD put the dirt there so it must be in the right place, so leave it where HE put it :lol: !
Apr 11, 2014 20:04:38 #
MARTYIV wrote:
I tried it... the guy did not come back the next day... Should have waited to pay him... His first 5 hours were $50 and well, I guess that was all he needed.I am sure there are 1617-year-olds in your neighborhood willing to work for 10 bucks an hour in cash. And if you're anywhere near my age they can do in one hour what it takes me four hours. Try it buddy
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