Bird Watching: Common Redpoll Love-fest, 1 by WormsLovSharon

WormsLovSharon wrote:
Wow, here I am in Las Vegas and the temperature today was 68 today. Do not get mad. When you do not have low temperatures you have birds that look like the desert. Brown. The hummingbirds are hovering around trying to find spider webs to make their nests. I have the hanging socks and my numerous birds love it and the doves wait underneath for the scraps. I just refill them and last year the two lasted the whole season. I have junk bird seed and I live on the green belt about 10 houses above the golf course. I take large zippy bags full of the bird food and walk down to the golf course and spray it around by hand. There are Quail there and I need to find out what they eat. Anyway, this seems to keep the large birds away from our garden and leaves it open to the small birds, hummingbirds and dragonflies. I will try to take pictures tomorrow. I have a Koi pond about 50m feet from the bird feeders. My enjoyment is watching them take their bath in the morning. Even the hummingbirds take a bath each morning when it is warm. I do not put out hummingbird feeders because the females will stay away if the aggressive males are around and they always come to the feeders. I have climbing fig vine in the front court yard. We allow some of the vine to hang down. That is where the hummingbirds make their nest. Last year we had 5 nests and they were occupied twice with two separate babies. The bird family is really strange. My feeders are in the back landscape behind a two story home hanging from two large African Sumac. . The sock does not get sun until about 1pm. They ignore it until the sun is on the sock. In the meantime they are screaming in the front garden "Where is our food"???? It is really funny. I take the dogs for a walk every morning toward the green belt and they follow us up the sidewalk to the park and ******* all the way there. The attached is a nest with two baby hummingbirds just before they were ready to fledge. This nest was very low in the courtyard. I had to get up on a ladder to take the picture so I did not do it often. I talked to these little guys for over 5 weeks and after they fledged, they came back every morning when I was gardening. They would give me a few buzzes and then spend the day among the trees. It was so delightful I can not come close to tell you how wonderful it was. Be safe. I am so sorry you have such cold temperatures. I am sending you and your birds warmth.