Since Birdman and I went to my sister's for a fabulous Thanksgiving celebration, our birds decided to hold their own. Our three black masked lovebirds seem to have been the hosts this year. I haven't figured out how they managed to get the word out to all the other birds, but they did. Teenage girls with cell phones have nothing on the bird communication network.
Our guest birds began arriving on Wednesday. The first to arrive was a Baltimore Oriole. He was absolutely gorgeous! He spent a good 40 minutes hanging on the outside of the black masked lovebirds avairy chatting with them. Our lovebirds were such gracious hosts that they got off their perches and hung on the side of the avairy for their conversation.
I wish I had been able to take a picture of them for you. The lovebirds are in a wooden octagon shaped avairy that Birdman built for them. It has a lovely wooden scalloped roof. This is the avairy that is placed next to the red firecracker plant that grows besides our pond. The colors of the birds, plants and avairy combined were breathtaking.
After the Oriole decided that he had other social obligations to attend to and left, our next visitor arrived. This guest was the beautiful emerald hummingbird that has paid us a few other visits. He went straight to the firecracker plant and then to our purple flowers. Again I wish I had been able to grab the camara for some photos. While the hummingbird didn't stay nearly as long as the Oriole, we weren't upset. We know that he will be back soon.
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