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| Hummingbird Nest, Golden Gate Heights |
It's still kind of a bummer to walk past the empty Inner Parkside nest, as I did this morning for the second time. My Wednesday walk had reverted to the mean -- meaning nothing much to photograph, nature-wise. So when a mama hummingbird squeaked in alarm and flew out of a small tree as I walked under it this morning, I felt grateful for the chance to observe another nest.
The only problem was, I couldn't find it. The tree is small, with limited potential for hummingbird real estate, and it seemed I had looked in every nook and elbow with no luck. So I began to slowly circle the crown, and just as I was about to close the loop, there it was. So small! It barely seems to hold the mother as she incubates her eggs, yet it will still be big enough to support a pair of growing nestlings.
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| On the bike portion of my morning I stopped by the big pride-of-madeira on Middle Drive West, where a light spray of drizzle was falling, when I saw that the resident Allen's hummingbird was there. It's actually been awhile since it was in a visible spot as I rode past. It spends a lot of time chasing off interlopers, and it also has a perch that's out of sight. |
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| The little guy kept moving onto perches ever closer to where I was standing, caught here in mid-blink. |
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| A female Anna's hummingbird kept sneaking in, going for the flowers deep inside the patch instead of the more obvious ones on the edges. Nevertheless, the Allen's hummingbird kept catching her in the act and chasing her out. |
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