Steve and Judy's Travels!

It just showed up today.  All of a sudden, instead of an occasional hummingbird or two, we’ll have 10 or 15 all at once.  I put out more feeders so they can chase each other back and forth between them.

I can’t get very many in the frame all at once.

I’ll have to stake-out for some better pictures.

We let Merlin, the bird I.D. app on the phone, listen to pick out which hummingbirds we’re getting.  Most of them are ruby-throated, but we still have the resident buff-bellied, and the occasional black-chinned and rufous.

Driving (riding) in the Tesla.

It doesn’t need me.  All it needs to know is where I want to go and then I become superfluous.  An image comes to mind of our kids in booster chairs in the back seat with the pretend steering wheel in front of them, spinning the wheel and driving like crazy, having absolutely no impact on what is really happening.  That’s me.  Pretend driving now.

For a squirrel.

Walking along that fence must be exhausting!

Fish eating diving ducks.  They hunt cooperatively in groups like this.

These mergansers were working upstream past us while we were in Yellowstone.

They don’t nest on the ground like other ducks, they nest high up in trees in cavities.  When the babies hatch, the first thing they have to do is jump out of the tree to the ground or water below.  At one day old!

Loving him some suet.

But then, who doesn’t?