RE: Who are you, and what do you do?
March 1, 2015 at 2:49 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2015 at 2:57 am by Whateverist.)
I admit to being a shameless waterhole bagger. The Sierras out here are filled with great ones. So I'll have to find a way to get that information from you.
I get some birds through my garden as the creek is a natural flyway. Green Herons stalk the creek and will sit on fence posts from time to time. I've had a Sharpchin (I think) hawk take a Mourning dove in the air just as I opened the back door one day. Took me moment to figure out why there was an explosion of feathers in the air. Hawks occasionally swoop low through my garden before hopping over my fence and into the dumpster bin across the creek from me. (I always root for them.) I enjoy the swarms of Bushtits that work their way through the garden everyday quite a lot and once saw them nesting (communally) in my father-in-law's garden. Goldfinches, Robins and in the fall Cedar Waxwings glean the many figs that never ripen. This winter I have a hummer sitting on a nest built just a couple feet off the ground. I got a picture of it but it isn't in good focus.
![[Image: 16678168771_5e3a24d45a.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8676/16678168771_5e3a24d45a.jpg)
This is another poorly focused photo to show the Euphorbia lambii just beyond the pond where the nest is located. (It is the mini-tree looking thing just right of the twin white trunks of birch.)
This is the main food source.
A couple more gratuitous snaps from around the general area.
I get some birds through my garden as the creek is a natural flyway. Green Herons stalk the creek and will sit on fence posts from time to time. I've had a Sharpchin (I think) hawk take a Mourning dove in the air just as I opened the back door one day. Took me moment to figure out why there was an explosion of feathers in the air. Hawks occasionally swoop low through my garden before hopping over my fence and into the dumpster bin across the creek from me. (I always root for them.) I enjoy the swarms of Bushtits that work their way through the garden everyday quite a lot and once saw them nesting (communally) in my father-in-law's garden. Goldfinches, Robins and in the fall Cedar Waxwings glean the many figs that never ripen. This winter I have a hummer sitting on a nest built just a couple feet off the ground. I got a picture of it but it isn't in good focus.
![[Image: 16678168771_5e3a24d45a.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8676/16678168771_5e3a24d45a.jpg)
This is another poorly focused photo to show the Euphorbia lambii just beyond the pond where the nest is located. (It is the mini-tree looking thing just right of the twin white trunks of birch.)
This is the main food source.
A couple more gratuitous snaps from around the general area.