Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Hummers and other Wildlife

No, not those symbols of North American excess, but the birds. We finally got a hummingbird feeder up the other day and the hummers have discovered it. So far, we've seen a Black-Chinned Hummingbird and another that we can't figure out. They swoop in to feed and are getting relaxed enough to actually sit on the little perches by the feeder. They are just so amazingly tiny.

We also have a small family of coyotes denning just up the road from our house. We saw the new pups, 4 of them, just the other morning. I happened to be awake at 4 am a couple of days ago, and heard them doing their yelping/singing chorus for just a minute or so. Maybe that's why the deer seem to have disappeared from the neighbourhood recently.

1 comment:

The Clothesline said...

Neat to be living out in the wilds of British Columbia, isn't it? xo from you xyl