Judy and I are lucky enough to have a deck on the back of our place. On the deck we have several hanging baskets of flowers and one hummingbird feeder. For those of you that remember a few days ago I bloged about a fight between the red wasp and the hummingbird. That battle is repeated every so often and I stay out of it as long as the "dog fight" leaves me alone. Last evening Judy and I were enjoying the end of a great Schooner Creek day and watched while a group of hummingbirds tried to feed at the feeder. Notice that I said tried. It seems that the males of the species are bullies. Yes, they are the worlds smallest bullies. weighing in at about two ounces these fierce creatures guard the feeder with all of the force and aggression of a mama grizzly. They sit out in the trees until an unsuspecting intruder tries to get a taste then from out of the sun like a WWII Japanese Zero they attack. The sound of clacking beaks as well as bumping bodies fill the air with squeaks, twitters and chirps as the male drives off the other bird only to return to the protection of the trees to await another intruder. Look closely at the lower right side of the feeder in the photo above and you will see the little Corsair.(WWII American fighter) last night we watched the "dog-fight" until they retired at dark.
Just before good an dark we seen a male red fox in all of its red glory run across the back yard. its really nice living on Schooner Creek.
This morning I got up poured myself a cup of coffee and went out to watch the sun come up. I was sitting there when I heard the hum of an approaching hummingbird, he flew to the feeder hung there with out sitting on it and then flew away. I checked the feeder and realized that there was no food left in it. Last night after dark when we came in it was 1/2 full. Then I seen the little foot prints, we had a visitor from Ricky Raccoon last night. That little creature drank almost a pint of sugared water. I hope his sugar high keeps him awake all day long!
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