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SBS: Sheila’s Bird Shots: ~Broad-tailed Hummingbird and Eurasian Collared-Dove~

Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird

The hummingbirds love to sit on one of our Amateur Ham Radio antennas.  During the summer, I have captured a few of them sitting on this wire.

Today, I walked outside and she was sitting, pretty as you please, in a Juniper tree, no more than ten feet away. She did not seem to be in a hurry to fly away. Did I have my camera – no!  I know she was telling me: “Ha, no camera, I think I will just sit here.”

I could have gotten a photo without the wire, maybe!

Another frequent visitor to my yard, this summer, has been the Eurasian Collared-Dove. I was enjoying a little sun, out on the deck, and I happened to look into the Apple tree and this Dove was asking me to take its picture. It then fly over to the Pine tree and posed again for me.

Sitting in an Apple Tree (looks like a juvenile to me)
Sitting in an Apple Tree (looks like a juvenile to me)
Now sitting in a Pine Tree
Now sitting in a Pine Tree

I took the Broad-tailed Hummingbird photo on September 15, 2013 and the Dove photos on September 18, 2013.