Last night a hummingbird was looking for my nectar I usually put out for him/her. I spotted the bird alighting on a branch of the pine tree ten feet from where the feeder used to be. Since the bear tore that feeder down, I had not put any up, again. I felt so bad that I immediately made some more and filled my feeder for him and put it up again. Within fifteen minutes. I am hoping the hummingbird tries, again. I know it will take time for the hummingbirds to realize there is nectar there for them again. I felt so disheartened when a bear came in our yard twice and raided all our bird feeders. I felt helpless.
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There were certain birds I never saw before I started feeding them. A red bellied woodpecker was one. I never saw a Carolina wren before. Those are two birds that quickly come to mind.
There are others like a white breasted nuthatch who likes feeding on the suet I put out for the woodpeckers. I never had a large living room window facing the yard before from where I can watch the birds come to and fro several bird feeders.
Our window faces a large white pine and there are bushes on the edge of the porch. When the frost is ended I will put out sugar water and watch the daily parade and antics of the ruby throated hummingbirds feeding on them.
I consider myself lucky to have this situation. I have always loved birds and I get a lot of pleasure of watching the steady stream of them.
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The best discoveries are always when you least expect them. Today I was walking my dog and I picked something off the middle of the road. It was a two inch diameter bird nest. It had to have been built by a ruby-throat hummingbird: it was so small. Somehow it fell off the tree. I had never seen such a small nest before.
Later on in the day, I was driving home after making my daily trek to the post office and a turkey hen and her nine babies passed in front of me to my amazement. I stopped my car, mouth open, and let the baby turkeys pass.
I do not even know what turkey babies are called. What was even more interesting to me was at least half of the babies were a different size: she must have hatched half of her brood at a different time. I had never seen baby wild turkeys before in my life. You never know when the next discovery will come. It is all serendipity.
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