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7.  It's nice to hear you like the company of women.  Not all men do.

8.  That is wonderful.  Do you have hummingbirds?  Plant honeysuckle to attract hummingbirds.

9.  You are so right about that.

Actually, I've always liked the company of women.  It was hitting on them which I found awkward.  Given my mother, it was hard to believe that there was anything about sex which was appealing to women.

Hummingbirds live here year around.  One Anna's has fledged two pairs of chicks early this year, and probably more in nests I haven't found.  Actually, putting out plants of interest to birds and arranging them in ways to appeal to them is a big part of what my garden is about.  The year-round creek on the edge of our lot is a flyway for birds working their way from the hills above the  UC Berkeley campus to the bay.

These were the first hummer chicks I spied this summer.

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Picture of a night heron sitting above one of my aviaries looking down over the creek.

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One of the more interesting birds I kept, a Mesia.

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That seems to be the maximum number of photos.

Those are wonderful pics!!

I clicked the link to your Flickr page...there's one photo taken from what looks like a mountaintop.
Is that your view?  If Yes, I'm never speaking to you again.

I know hummingbird nests are TINY.  Like a ping-pong ball size.
but while I've seen hummingbirds, I've never personally seen a nest, IRL, first-hand;
(only in documentaries).

your pic of the nest, is that lichen on the sides?  If Yes, how charming is that??

I've never seen nor heard of a Mesia.  Gorgeous.
Do they have a pretty song?

It's nice to live on a flyway.
I live near some major bodies of water, (near Toronto, Great Lakes)
so I get to see lots of birds,
and Night Herons are one of them, as well as Great Blue Herons and White Morph Herons.

Last couple of summers I was pleasantly surprised to even see a couple of Sandhill Cranes.

When I was growing up, you never saw birds like that around here;
but since they've made an effort to clean up the Great Lakes since the 1950s
the bird varieties have been astonishing.

We now get to see Bald Eagles, wild turkeys, Mute Swans, Kingfishers (they are funny little birds),

and in recent years, quite a few Orioles...which are really neat birds with colourful plumage,
who build distinctive "hanging" nests.

we have lots of hawks of course, and Peregrine Falcons, and of course Canada Geese;

and recently I heard a pair of Great Horned Owls late at night, hooting up a storm in a tree in my backyard.
And my window was closed, and the TV was on.  But I still heard them.

I love birdwatching.

I have to tell you, though, I didn't really understand this sentence:

" Given my mother, it was hard to believe that there was anything about sex which was appealing to women. "