Volume 11 , Issue 19

Dear Duchess

Happy Mothers Day to All those mothers out there! It is good to be back in cool, SW Colorado mountains again!

Saturday afternoon one of our Pine Siskins invited it's way into the house through an open patio door that NW Okie left open for us Pugs to go in and out of here in SW Colorado.

We did finally get it outside safely, but not before NW Okie snapped this photo of the Pine Siskin perched on a basket on the kitchen shelf.

We have began again filling our wildbird feeders and the Siskins and other birds and grey squirrel are slowly finding their way back to our feeding ground. Even a juvenile raccoon did a trapeze act on the railing around the back patio one evening that awoke us Pugs from our nightly snooze.

The hummers are gradually partaking of the hummer juice that NW Okie made up. So far we have seen a Ruby-Throated and a Rufus. BUT ... the strangest thing is the Ruby-Throated has become the aggresser and chased the Rufus away from the feeders. Usually it is the other way around, isn't?

You can catch our Hummingbird feeders on our webcams at the the following links, but there is not much action this week. Once the word gets out I suppose the action will pick up to some extent. OkieLegacy Webcams: SW Colorado Backyard Cam I - SW Colorado Backyard Cam II - SW Colorado Frontyard Cam.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all those mother's out there on this second Sunday of May 2009!
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