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Friday, August 27, 2010

And the Winner Is...

This week we finally got a feeder up on the column on the patio, right outside the back door.  We've been treated to some amazingly aerobatics as at least five hummingbirds swoop around the back yard in the battle for the feeders.

And the winner?  Well I guess that would be this little guy...


He tirelessly defended this feeder and the feeder you can see in the background, plus the Flame Acanthus and the Hamelai Patens.  I think the others managed to sneak a few sips in here and there but I was worried they were just going to wear themselves out.  They wore me out!


Words and photographs by Jayne Wilson, Green and Serene, Jayne's Country Garden.

2 comments:

Jeff Branch said...

My wife loves bird feeders. So do our squirrels. Our feeder is a pretty good size, filled with seed and we have it hanging from a tree branch. The squirrels knock seed to the ground and then eat it and I can't get anything to grow in this area. But I like the birds too.

Jayne said...

Haha Jeff, I find that birdseed itself grows pretty well around where I feed the birds. I get the occasional sunflower growing where it was planted by a bird dropping a seed :-)