Rewilding My Lot

I see Black-Chinned Hummingbirds (Archilochus alexandri) on a regular basis now (several times a day). Their favorite plants to visit are Red Yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora), Standing Cypress (Ipomopsis rubra), Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis), and surprisingly, sunflowers. Surprising, because sunflowers don’t have tubular flowers.

On this particular day, just after dawn, I saw two of these hummingbirds at the same time. Since they were not fighting, I think they might be a pair.

I will need to be more patient and/or lucky to get a good picture of a hummingbird, but in the meantime, here’s a poor one. It’s the blurry thing near the top of the fence!