Standing
at the back gate, admiring the leaf litter and compost on the ground of our
thicket of native plants, I eventually noticed that little lump on a branch of
the Mexican Olive. Not right away, I wasn’t looking for birds, I was
admiring decaying vegetation.
I
was just working in the yard, so had no camera with me. I did have a
cellphone. I don’t know why I had one while I was doing yardwork, but I
pulled it out a snapped a photo as best I could. I knew I couldn’t get
much resolution, but I zoomed in a little and snapped another.
That
came out surprisingly good, so I tried a real close-up.
What
the heck! Pretty good for a cellphone snap. Standing motionless on
a branch, keeping an eye on me, resting up for his next attack on the nearby
nectar feeder.
Buff-bellied
Hummingbird. Nonmigratory. A year-round resident from the tip of
South Texas all along the Gulf of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula.
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