暖冬cool夏
这里一年四季温暖如春，没有酷暑没有严寒......
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?
蜂鸟抓拍的真好，清晰又动感十足，仔细看，蜂鸟很漂亮呢，赞！
我也曾经想放一个糖水喂食器，你这篇妙趣横生的蜂鸟图，让我的这个念头又复活了。
哈哈哈，还真看到了鸟的斗争，片片拍得太好太有意思了。好馋你的火龙果，女儿真有福！
谢谢小小的共鸣，我们都想清清静静过日子，多一事不如少一事:)
上不上首页不要紧，我这些都是些家长里短的生活琐碎，比我写得好大有人在。
谢谢小小一回来就来看我，好好休息吧，明天又该上班了。祝新周快乐!
同感，我也不敢养宠物，一旦有感情，经常的出差怎么办呢？家里离不开人~~~，而且万一失去了，那多伤心啊~~~
我家后院也曾有蜂鸟来做窝，但后来被一次飓风吹落了，心疼半天。
暖冬家的火龙果心里美，我也有一颗红色的火龙果，期待着早早开花结果：））
外出游玩到最后一刻才回来，假期总是太短，明天上班了，问好暖冬，新周快乐！
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 ;-)
谢谢麦子临帖阅读，周末快乐!
谢谢！
Luckily the intensity ebbed after a day or two 里，ebbed 就很妙。
火龙果的色泽真好看！
你在外州度假还这么忙啊，还记得你说要睡上三天三夜的，还是要及时补充睡眠，Oncemm辛苦了!
火龙果是好吃，汁比较多，还不知道会不会到女儿嘴里呢，剩下的红肉的果子不多了，也很小。Oncemm周末快乐!
从鸟类动物界看人，也很有意思。前不久看来Netflix上的penguins的记录片，也是感慨，人和动物世界一样有温情，有无赖，有艰辛。
今天想着去再买一个过来，不知会不会出门一趟? 谢谢师傅临帖留言，我有故事接着写:) 师傅周末快乐!
赞同暖冬的先生：“打架就打架，总好过没有吃的了”。至少那只霸道的在你这里霸道了，附近的花蜜就归属了那些不霸道的蜂鸟们。:-)
暖冬心地善良，为鸟着想，没想到有一个不是好鸟的鸟出现了！这么自私霸道，哈哈，看来人类鸟类都会出现“不是好鸟”的状况，这个世界不完美呀。
你问：“想着再买一个feeder， 情况会如何”，我来预见一下两种可能：
1，资源丰富了，和平共处，共享甜蜜。
2，引来更多的鸟，为了争食，大打出爪，引起一场鸟界大战。
哈哈，新编《快乐的小鸟》，《愤怒的小鸟》。。鸟故事圆圆不断～～
徒儿周末愉快！
是的，火龙果是寄给女儿了，本来今天就该到了，结果网上一查还没有出加州，唉。
谢谢淡然，周末快乐!
还是说开心的，你们自家种的火龙果好棒哦，就猜到暖冬会给女儿寄，希望这次包裹能顺利早到你女儿手中！
不说了，干活干的也累趴下了。不写了，秋水周末快乐!
片片抓拍的好！花架子也好漂亮！攀藤的是什么叶子？喜欢：）火龙果看着就好吃啊，咽了下口水：）
暖冬周末愉快！
问好暖冬，周末快乐！