Baby peacocks should arrive any day now!

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Going back through photos I've taken in the spring over the years, I found that the earliest arrival [in my yard] of baby peacocks was on May 14th. Today is May 11th...so they should start showing up any minute now. I can't wait! My new camera, a Nikon D5100 with its 70-300mm lens attached, will be ready and waiting. As soon as I see the first chick(s) and their mother peahen(s) I'll be snapping photos like crazy.

Meanwhile, be sure to check out our baby peacocks post, which includes a lot of photos of peahens, peachicks at various stages of age, and young/immature peacocks and peahens.

Hummingbirds in my backyard

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It's fun, and noisy, having peacocks roaming freely in my yard--see my posts on baby peacocks and peacocks during mating season in my yard for lots of pics and info on that! At the opposite end of the size spectrum, though, I'm also blessed with hummingbirds.

They're attracted to numerous plants in the yard, including Bird of Paradise flowers, orange/lemon/tangerine blossoms, mulberry trees, Buddleia plants, many varieties of flowers, and the nectar feeder. I like to sit on the patio with my camera at the ready and snap photo after photo when a hummingbird comes to the feeder. I currently have the nectar feeder positioned so that the shots I get from my usual seat at the patio table have a nice background of bougainvillea blossoms.

Here are a few recent pics, taken with a Nikon D5100 DSLR camera; each photograph is followed by a closeup crop from it:
















I never get tired of seeing these cute, tiny birds who dart back and forth so quickly...if you blink you can miss them. So it's HARD getting good shots of them!

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