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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Always interesting

After lunch and a short nap I went back outside but it was too hot to work so I finished the watering and taking pictures in between moving the hose. It seems there's always interesting stuff to see and photograph. I almost missed noticing this Black-chinned Hummingbird female at a sunflower that volunteered to grow, probably because of the fortune I spend on sunflower seeds.



Here's a Familiar Bluet dragonfly.


There's no hurry on cleaning out that ditch. It'll probably be months or years before we get another big gully-washer..... or tomorrow. I'll wait until the weather cools off. At 7:00 PM it was still 95° at the oasis.


2 comments:

Chaparral Earth said...

Do you put out seed for birds ? That may be the source of the variety of sunflower that is utilized in bird seed. The smaller black oil sunflower seed is most appreciated by seed loveĆ­ng birds.

Can't say I've ever seen or heard of a Hummer going for sunflowers. Over here numerous species of Bumblebees love them.


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Carolyn Ohl-Johnson said...

Yes, all the sunflower seeds I buy are put out for the birds. I don't know if the bird was looking for nectar or insects in the sunflower.