Pets

Was my mom's patio in San Diego. She always had lots of them about because she always had at least one feeder. Long ago, in the early 70s, I lived at her house, since she had no dryer, we had to hang out our laundry out to dry. The hummers would sit on the frame and crap on our clothes.

There were so many that there would be in flight fights across the yard and it was dangerous to be outside the screened in part when they were going at it!

But out in the hills nearby we could watch the mating thing that they do. The males noisily make a high speed rocketing blast straight up into the sky, maybe a hundred feet, then come back down such that it looks like they make a big loop each time. A fascinating event in the sagebrush.

A friend has an outdoor camera on a nest in his yard in SD, sometimes he sends videos of baby feedings!

Up here, I haven't seen one hummingbird in two years, at least. I haven't been off the hill much and that might be why.