Date: 09/17/2023

Number: 3

Picture taken this Sunday morning @ 9:04 am.

The morning started off with a nice cool 66 degrees and the high is expected to get to 91 degrees. Pretty blue skies today.

There was three very active hummingbirds putting on a show for me this morning, they flew right past my face so many times. One or two would come down to the Turks Cap flowers and another would come and chase it away or try to chase the other away. I got lots of good video of them doing this. When they would take a break from chasing one another, they would sit on the electric line (right above the Turks Cap Flowers) or go up into the Bald Cypress Trees right on the other side of my fence or sit on the fence. I only seen a hummingbird go to the feeder once while I was out there getting pics and videos of them this morning, the rest of the time, they were at the Turks Cap flowers or trying to get to the flowers.

The flowers I have available for them are: Turks Cap (I have two groups of Turks Cap, one located on the side of my house and one at the very back of my yard, Tall Purple Mexican Petunias, Rose Mallow Bush, hanging basket with Red Petunias, a container of Red Pentas that sit in a tall plant stand and Garden Phlox.

One of the three hummers I seen today could be an immature male, I think this because when it was sitting up in the Bald Cypress Tree, it's tail was forked, not rounded. I didn't see any red on the throat.

Irving, TX

Latitude: 32.8 Longitude: -97

Observed by: Barbara
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