Tag Archives: Hummingbirds

Butterflies at the Tulsa Botanic Garden

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Saturday, we all three loaded up in the car and ventured to the Tulsa Botanic Garden to check out the butterflies.

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It is butterfly mania up there. I wondered where all the monarch butterflies were in Tulsa. They are at the Botanic Garden.

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Butterflies make me happy!

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They looked pretty happy as well.

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There were several humming birds as well. I didn’t bring the right lens to capture them so I have these two highly cropped photos.

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Critters on the River and at Home

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I spotted this Great Egret on the Arkansas River during a recent bicycle ride.

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This is another one. He was standing still and got tired of waiting on me. I was lucky to catch him in flight.

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Our hummingbird feeder is getting regular visits now. Problem is that wasps and hornets are also visiting and they don’t like hummingbirds. So I’m trying to figure out what to do about it. I hate to kill native pollinators.

Lizzie thinks we got this tray in the living room for her. She thinks everything in the house is for her!

And our little Pomeranian, Rascal. He is very sick with cancer in one lung, congestive heart failure, and other issues. Vet said that he doesn’t know he is sick so just love every moment we have together with him and we are pumping full of meds and supplements. The weather has cooled a bit so we are taking him on short walks. He sure does love his outings. They wipe him the rest of the day but he’s happy. We are doing our best for him to live his best life.

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Saturday’s Critters – Hummingbirds Finally

We have tried for two years to attract hummingbirds to our backyard. We get occasional visits but no repeats. After several months this summer, my wife finally took the feeder down, cleaned it out, and left it sitting on a table on our patio. Then I was looking out the window and saw a hummingbird to trying to use the feeder. It was persistent so we prepared some more nectar and hung it up.

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And now they are coming back. In two days my trailcam picked up twenty-nine photos and videos of the tiny little birds. Don’t worry I’m not posting all twenty -today.

Just one photo and one video. But hey I’m happy!

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