Diederik Cuckoo
The bird whose call is it’s name. 🎶🎵🎶
Barn Owl
This nocturnal beauty is found on every continent except Antarctica.
Common Nightingale
This bird can have more than 200 songs in its repertoire, and it might sing them all at night. 🌙💫
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Birdsong brings relief
to my longing
I'm just as ecstatic as they are,
but with nothing to say!
Please universal soul, practice
some song or something through me.
💙 I love Blue birds! 💙
🔥 My Hummingbirds are only eating at night recently because it’s so hot. 🔥
3 comments:
I love to see and hear birds. For awhile I heard a whipoorwill each evening when I put the dogs to bed. Lovely photos, Marion. I hope you had a nice birthday!
Lovely post. I had no idea that hummingbirds would feed at night regardless of the weather, so, just to be clear, you're not just seeing them NEAR sunset but when it's actually dark? Here--at our house--we have two kinds of hummingbirds at our feeder. Sometimes, wasps run the birds off, so when I read that the yellow color on the feeder openings (openings that are shaped to look like flowers) can't be seen by hummingbirds, but that it does attract wasps, I painted the openings red. I also keep a basin of water under the feeder, and that too helps keep the wasps away--plus it gives the squirrels a place to drink and the scrub jays a place to bathe.
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Thank you, Kelly! I had a pint of “Bride Cake” ice cream. It was worth every calorie. 🥳🥳 Hope you’re feeling better and staying cool! I almost had a heart attack today when I opened my electric bill. It was $176 last month and $450 😱😱😱😱 this month. I already keep the A/C near 80 during the day and 75 at night and use fans. We have nowhere else to cut back. We’re eating cheap TV dinners from Dollar General, going nowhere to save gas, not eating meat or buying milk, and feeding our pets cheap food, sadly. Bidenflation is killing us… I hope y’all are faring better! ☀️🌻
Thank you, Snow. We’ve been in a drought with 100+ degree heat for a while now. I fill my 4 feeders about halfway every other afternoon. One feeder I can see from my den. It’s full at bedtime and nearly empty by 7 in the mornings, so I’m assuming they’re eating at night or right before dawn. Even though they’re in shade, the water gets very hot during the day. This is my 30th year feeding them. My wasps don’t seem to bother the ones with yellow flowers, but my bees do try to eat from the feeders. I don’t use any poison in my yard, so we have lots of creatures. I even leave the big wasp nests under my carport. We’ve never been stung & they don’t bother us..
I put large clay plant saucers on the ground I fill nightly for the frogs, dirt daubers, lizards, turtles. squirrels, raccoons, possums, bugs, etc & a Tupperware bowl full for the larger animals. I have a huge, old bird bath that holds 5 gallons of water under a shade tree where my bigger birds bathe and drink. I have 2 shallow concrete birdbaths shaped like sunflowers in the shade that I fill with a gallon of water every day for the dragonflies & butterflies. I’m keeping the neighborhood critters hydrated. 💦 I’ve never asked anyone to not visit my blog, Snow. You’re welcome just like anyone who wants to visit. I hope you & Peggy are well. xo
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