Hummingbirds

The other evening my husband and I were sitting outside on the porch, talking, and enjoying each other's company when we saw a very small bird landing on a nearby hummingbird feeder filled with sugar water.  The bird sat upright on a small perch on the feeder so that it could easily reach the water.

It was a hummingbird!  What surprised us the most was that it did not flutter its wings.  We have never seen a hummingbird sitting still on a perch on the feeder.  Oh, how sweet!  It was such a privilege!

The hummingbirds don't waste their energy flying about all the time and flapping their wings at an enormous speed.  They actually do rest to conserve their energy.

I've always had a feeling that there is a hummingbird or two in the tall cedar tree where they are well protected.

The picture of the hummingbird is from Wikipedia and it best resembles the bird that came to our feeder  When they do come and visit us, they don't stay very long.  There is no time for me to take my own picture.

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I'll be off tomorrow so that I may get in sync with the rest of the bloggers for the 

A to Z Challenge 

Hummingbirds for Earth Day 2015

Today is a special day as all days should be because we should honor and take care of every patch of earth that we have available to us.  We should make it as green as possible and our goal and aim should be to do no harm to the environment.

On my patch that I call the Back Forty, we do not use herbicide or pesticide as a rule and it has paid off handsomely.  Lo' knows, we don't have a manicured lawn, but it's green.  The dollar weeds glisten as polished emeralds in the sunshine after a rain shower and the rain drops glisten as diamonds in the branches of the cedar trees.

A few weeks ago as the weather was finally getting warmer, I was sitting out on the porch having a glass of Zinfandel.  I was looking at the empty hummingbird feeder when a ruby-throated hummingbird came to check it out.  I have only seen hummingbirds twice in the Back Forty in ten years.

My husband cleaned the feeder, refilled it, and hang it back out again on a Crepe Myrtle branch.  Will we ever see a hummingbird again?

Finally, after a few weeks not only one but two hummingbirds came to check out the feeder.  They were so small and their wings fluttered furiously.  We were visited by special birds on this special Earth Day.

I am still waiting for them to return but in the meantime, I'll enjoy the Cardinals.

Celebrate Earth Day.

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