The other day I bought one of the crepe paper poppies the local American Legion Post was selling on Armed Forces Day and in preparation for Memorial Day. I didn't have a buttonhole to put it in, and when I got home I decided to wind the wire stem around the still-bare trumpet vine that twists along one side of the deck.
It hadn't been there long before a hummingbird discovered it. Of course, the hummingbirds love the trumpet vines but the birds are already here and the trumpets are clearly weeks away. I don't know if it is the same bird or not, but today I saw another one hovering around from various angles and poking into the fake flower, hoping for something. I should probably go out and brush sugar water on it.
Sorry I don't have a picture of that!
I did, however, find this photo online of an origami hummingbird and flower.
In the background of that center close-up photo you can see a half orange fixed to the deck rail for the orioles. Tom cuts a fresh orange in half each morning and puts both halves out there. They go through an orange a day, with some help from a few other birds and the ants.
As you can see, other than the trumpet vine, things are greening up nicely out back.
This time of year is so beautiful in your neck of the woods.
ReplyDeleteI want to learn how to make that origami hummer and flower.
Put up the humming bird feeder. Don't tease the poor things.