Every Day

 

It’s another hot summer Sunday and I’ve been watching the Olympics…..alot!!  I should be paying better attention, but I keep getting distracted by the activity outside our living room window. 

What is going on is that I have a hummingbird feeder right outside our front window.  I get a kick out of them.  This year, for the first time ever, we’ve had a sunflower plant suddenly appear, completely uninvited.  Photo below.

This plant has been particularly helpful to the hummingbirds as they perch on the plant waiting their turn at the feeder. 

By sheer coincidence, before this sweetie showed up, I happened to plant some sunflowers in a bed behind our house.  They are now blooming beautifully.

To my knowledge the hummingbirds have not found these, not sure, haven’t seen them on this plant. 

The additional joy of both of these plants is that the Yellow Finches seem to love them…..I mean really love them!!!!  They are feeding heavily on the uninvited plant at the front of our house.  It is a perfect view, we can watch them easily without disturbing them.

I am so thrilled.  You see, several years ago, when we lived at our prior house, we had a boat load of Yellow Finches.  I love them for so many reasons.  Sadly, one day the West Nile Virus arrived.  Suddenly there were no more Yellow Finches.  There were also no more Crows.  No more Red Wing Black Birds….and so many others.   

It has been many years, and thankfully, slowly they are reviving.  I see Crows now, Red Wing Black Birds, and now, right here in our yard, Yellow Finches.  They even seem to be saying ‘Hello’.

I assume that these who are now showing up, have some kind of immunity to the West Nile….I don’t know that for a fact, but it sort of seems obvious, cause I’ve heard that the virus is still around. 

I know it seems like a simple thing, and it is, but it is one that puts a smile on my face….every day.