As you can see from the video filmed yesterday Gumbo has repaired her nest to her satisfaction and is now quietly and proudly sitting on her eggs. If I approach too close she will immediately fly off, and then "attack" me, or at least try to distract me. The weather has been perfect for 3 days now, although it might warm up a bit (high of 83?). There's a perfect breeze across Calypso pond, and, like Gumbo, we've been preoccupied with various minor repairs and improvements (repainting is an ongoing perpetual project here, rather like those bridges where repainting has to start at one end as soon as it's finished at the other (see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge#Maintenance).
A blog that provides up-to-date information about the world's leading (according to Google) hummingbird sanctuary, on high bluffs overlooking Long Island Sound, Riverhead, New York. The sanctuary is private and not open to the general public. Paul's Email: paul.adams%stonybrook.edu. We sometimes livestream from the sanctuary, at youtube.com/channel/UCvTj9WdD0zItyBLI6m-U9Og/live
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Gumbo has fixed her nest
As you can see from the video filmed yesterday Gumbo has repaired her nest to her satisfaction and is now quietly and proudly sitting on her eggs. If I approach too close she will immediately fly off, and then "attack" me, or at least try to distract me. The weather has been perfect for 3 days now, although it might warm up a bit (high of 83?). There's a perfect breeze across Calypso pond, and, like Gumbo, we've been preoccupied with various minor repairs and improvements (repainting is an ongoing perpetual project here, rather like those bridges where repainting has to start at one end as soon as it's finished at the other (see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge#Maintenance).
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