Birds

The birds we see visiting at different times of the year.
Since I use a point and shoot camera (Cannon S 80),  the birds are usually too far away to get a really good shot.

Mouseover the small images to see the full size picture/name.

 

The black sunflower seeds are well liked by the Cardinal couple, the other feeder holds cracked corn and black sunflowers. The thistle-sock did not get visited.
The Hummingbirds are fun to watch, they get used to people and let us get fairly close.  We don't have a sugar water feeder, but planted many plants especially for those little guys.

Hummingbirds love to visit following flowers in our backyard:

 

Porterweed, pink

Pineapple Sage, red

Salvia black and blue, dark blue

Shrimp plant, reddish pink

Coral Honeysuckle, coral red

Pentas, red

Obedience Plant, pink

Bat faced cuphea, red-purple

Firebush, red-orange

Cuphea, Candy Corn or Cigar Plant, red-orange

Spiral Ginger, red with yellow

Bottlebrush, red

Epidendrum radicans, orange, purple, yellow

Firecracker, yellow

Porterweed, purple

Ruellia brittonia, Mexican Petunia, purple

Passionflower vine Amethyst, purple

Iochroma Sky King, purple-blue

We do not offer a Feeder. As of right now, enough plants are growing in Myrtle Glen just for 'our' Hummingbirds. Since they migrate before the plants stop flowering here, I never thought it necessary to buy a Feeder.

The Ruby Throated Hummingbirds come in March and stay through September.  All day they zip around Myrtle Glen, as soon as the sun rises until dawn.
They are used to us people and don't mind at all if I walk close to them.

 

"when you garden, you grow"