暖冬cool夏
這裏一年四季溫暖如春，沒有酷暑沒有嚴寒......
In the backyard, a tall stem erected from a Aloe vera was bearing a couple of bell-shaped flowers, attracting hummingbirds for the honey. As I saw a pitiful bird fluttering hard, poking its beak deep into a narrow flower tube for meagre honey, my sympathy was roused. Weeks later, an old hummingbird feeder, found back in the garage, was cleaned, filled with dissolved sugar water, and hung on the trellis.
The bright red color base with four yellow flower-shaped petals as its feeding mouths, designed for color-sensitive hummingbird, soon effectively lured a hummingbird, who examined the feeder and the area fully before plunging in and sucked more than 10 times (A record of around 60 was noticed days later for a hummingbird).
But when more birds wanted to join the party the next day, the happy aggressive hummingbird turned sour. In an attempt to claim the sole ownership, it started chasing off any other hummingbird from the area, and thus sparked a bout of fights. At a lightning speed, the hummingbirds whooshed by. Then in a second they rose up to the sky, and plummeted like a rock, bumping against each other in the air with all its force and strength. The fights culminated the following day, and for the whole day while I was working next to window, the garden was engulfed in the fighting noises, sharp, high-pitched and non-stopped. The scarcity of food source has made hummingbird selfish. Their presence was not a joy as I expected, but an irritant. For once, I stormed out of the door, took the feeder down and shut myself in, leaving the hapless hummingbird confused and restlessly hovering under the empty space. But then empathy triumphed, and the feeder was put back to the spot.
Luckily the intensity ebbed after a day or two before the backyard resumed its normalcy on Wednesday. The aggressive hummingbird, though still seen circling around and chasing off others in the dusk, was no longer so agitated in the day. It visited the backyard a few times in the morning and the afternoon, rested on a slender dangling vine by the feeder, or perched at the tip of a new dragon fruit shoot, overlooking the yard, and then soared away in a fleeting second.
Would one more new feeder allay their jitters?
蜂鳥抓拍的真好，清晰又動感十足，仔細看，蜂鳥很漂亮呢，讚！
我也曾經想放一個糖水喂食器，你這篇妙趣橫生的蜂鳥圖，讓我的這個念頭又複活了。
哈哈哈，還真看到了鳥的鬥爭，片片拍得太好太有意思了。好饞你的火龍果，女兒真有福！
謝謝小小的共鳴，我們都想清清靜靜過日子，多一事不如少一事:)
上不上首頁不要緊，我這些都是些家長裏短的生活瑣碎，比我寫得好大有人在。
謝謝小小一回來就來看我，好好休息吧，明天又該上班了。祝新周快樂!
同感，我也不敢養寵物，一旦有感情，經常的出差怎麽辦呢？家裏離不開人~~~，而且萬一失去了，那多傷心啊~~~
我家後院也曾有蜂鳥來做窩，但後來被一次颶風吹落了，心疼半天。
暖冬家的火龍果心裏美，我也有一顆紅色的火龍果，期待著早早開花結果：））
外出遊玩到最後一刻才回來，假期總是太短，明天上班了，問好暖冬，新周快樂！
Yes, dragon fruits are not cheap, as they are not very productive, and that it takes about two months for the fruits to be ready. It is said to be full of antioxidants. But my backyard is too small, far from being a goldmine:)) Have a great new week!
Dragon fruits are pricy as I just discovered. I have never eaten them. You are cultivating a goldmine ;-)
謝謝麥子臨帖閱讀，周末快樂!
謝謝！
Luckily the intensity ebbed after a day or two 裏，ebbed 就很妙。
火龍果的色澤真好看！
你在外州度假還這麽忙啊，還記得你說要睡上三天三夜的，還是要及時補充睡眠，Oncemm辛苦了!
火龍果是好吃，汁比較多，還不知道會不會到女兒嘴裏呢，剩下的紅肉的果子不多了，也很小。Oncemm周末快樂!
從鳥類動物界看人，也很有意思。前不久看來Netflix上的penguins的記錄片，也是感慨，人和動物世界一樣有溫情，有無賴，有艱辛。
今天想著去再買一個過來，不知會不會出門一趟? 謝謝師傅臨帖留言，我有故事接著寫:) 師傅周末快樂!
讚同暖冬的先生：“打架就打架，總好過沒有吃的了”。至少那隻霸道的在你這裏霸道了，附近的花蜜就歸屬了那些不霸道的蜂鳥們。:-)
暖冬心地善良，為鳥著想，沒想到有一個不是好鳥的鳥出現了！這麽自私霸道，哈哈，看來人類鳥類都會出現“不是好鳥”的狀況，這個世界不完美呀。
你問：“想著再買一個feeder， 情況會如何”，我來預見一下兩種可能：
1，資源豐富了，和平共處，共享甜蜜。
2，引來更多的鳥，為了爭食，大打出爪，引起一場鳥界大戰。
哈哈，新編《快樂的小鳥》，《憤怒的小鳥》。。鳥故事圓圓不斷～～
徒兒周末愉快！
是的，火龍果是寄給女兒了，本來今天就該到了，結果網上一查還沒有出加州，唉。
謝謝淡然，周末快樂!
還是說開心的，你們自家種的火龍果好棒哦，就猜到暖冬會給女兒寄，希望這次包裹能順利早到你女兒手中！
不說了，幹活幹的也累趴下了。不寫了，秋水周末快樂!
片片抓拍的好！花架子也好漂亮！攀藤的是什麽葉子？喜歡：）火龍果看著就好吃啊，咽了下口水：）
暖冬周末愉快！
問好暖冬，周末快樂！