Meep! Meep!

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Elusive quarry

evades paparazzi tricks

just one photo, please!

-o.o-

This famous fellow was meandering past my driveway yesterday morning. A rare sighting, and he is awfully fast…

Redhead

A summer’s heat flush

can only be remedied

by fresh nectarines

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This chap (along with quite a few others) was nibbling on my nectarines last week, hanging upside down and taking bites out of them.

Aflutter

Startled by unseen

motivations, even the

steadfast will scatter

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(note: for some reason, this post did not publish when I hit “publish.” So I might leave it up for tomorrow, too.

That’s what I get for not checking…)

RIS, Woody

Remember this guy? I discovered him this morning, after hearing Lyra prance around in circles on the patio, searching for something. It appears the poor little fool got his claws stuck on another part of the screen, tucked away between it and the post where I couldn’t see him. I don’t know when, but I did wonder why I hadn’t seen him doing his funny stealth maneuver the past few days.

Too clever for his own good, alas.

The Rightful Recipient

With delicate sips

he takes in the nectar and

tastes woodpecker spit

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A Mystery Revealed

So for the past few weeks, I had been noticing that my hummingbird feeder was emptying much more quickly than it did this past fall, draining in a week or less where before it took at least a couple of weeks. Chalking it up to high winds or hummers being hungrier in the winter, I didn’t think much of it, until today.

This woodpecker cruised up, and clung to a nearby latticework to check out the scene, then hopped right on over and, in a feat of remarkable flexibility (to me, anyway – no way I can assume that position…), helped himself to the last remaining drops of nectar.

Check out that tongue!

What a stinker – I’m torn now on whether I should fill it up again. Then again, it is rather funny, and better than him hammering away at my chimney…

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