Standing at the back gate, admiring the leaf litter and compost on the ground of our thicket of native plants, I eventually noticed that little lump on a branch of the Mexican Olive. Not right away, I wasn’t looking for birds, I was admiring decaying vegetation.
I was just working in the yard, so had no camera with me. I did have a cellphone. I don’t know why I had one while I was doing yardwork, but I pulled it out a snapped a photo as best I could. I knew I couldn’t get much resolution, but I zoomed in a little and snapped another.
That came out surprisingly good, so I tried a real close-up.
What the heck! Pretty good for a cellphone snap. Standing motionless on a branch, keeping an eye on me, resting up for his next attack on the nearby nectar feeder.
Buff-bellied Hummingbird. Nonmigratory. A year-round resident from the tip of South Texas all along the Gulf of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula.