Getting ready for fall migration

I worked hard preparing for spring migration, which turned out to be well worth the effort. It was awesome! Now preparing for fall migration. I think it'll be awesome too! Getting stuff pruned and mulched, eliminating goatheads, and of course keeping things watered. Stuff I would do anyway, but more fun anticipating the reward while doing it. Nature is helping prepare fruit for the migrants. And there are more than enough insects to feed an army!

A few persimmons are ripe already

Ripe condalia berries

The Chinese Pistachio berries are still green but they'll be great for when the other berries are gone.

So far the only migrants are hummingbirds. Here's a migrating Rufous male.

When I arrived at the oasis at daylight today, all but one of the feeders were empty and hummers were in a frenzy. I hurriedly hung fresh full feeders, adding a couple of large capacity feeders to the dozen normally there this time of year, and soon the birds settled down.