Oasis never boring

While watering today, I discovered a dead Lucifer Hummingbird hanging upside down from a tree. The only cause of death I can come up with is old age. Not too hot, not too cold, plenty of ocotillo to feast on, etc.  My niece propped him up and photographed him.

Then I noticed that the ground around the new "bearproof" feeder has been eroded away by birds so bad that the Scaled Quail could no longer reach into the ports from the ground. 

The doves will use the perch, but the quail won't, or can't. Instead they were jumping up and trying to snatch a morsel while in the air.

Naturally, I was horrified, and rushed around finding rocks for perches for them. In no time at all they were happy campers.

Too exhausted to blog more tonight....