braids, birds, and blue ink
Today my husband learned to braid hair. If you have long, braidable hair that doesn't braid itself when you feel crummy, I can highly recommend a husband-made braid. His first effort was hilarious, and we've been lacking in hilarity recently.
In bird news, I still don't have a picture, but the hummingbird parked intermittently in a bush on our front walk is a Costa's hummingbird. Those and Anna's hummingbirds stay the winter around here, and no one on the web appears to like to take pictures of the girl birds, and this is clearly a girl bird. We're expecting baby birds in just under two weeks, assuming she didn't sit on the nest for a week before we saw her.
In dryer news, we took the dryer back apart this morning, and my husband boiled the drum seals four times for an hour each while I attempted to scrub the drum. I learned that if you accidentally sent a pen through the dryer about 10 years ago, and it left residual blue marks that never came off, you can get them off with Bon Ami if you scrub hard enough. The drum is in better shape, but it took a long time because I had to keep going to sit down. This better go away soon, but I think I said that last week, too.
In bird news, I still don't have a picture, but the hummingbird parked intermittently in a bush on our front walk is a Costa's hummingbird. Those and Anna's hummingbirds stay the winter around here, and no one on the web appears to like to take pictures of the girl birds, and this is clearly a girl bird. We're expecting baby birds in just under two weeks, assuming she didn't sit on the nest for a week before we saw her.
In dryer news, we took the dryer back apart this morning, and my husband boiled the drum seals four times for an hour each while I attempted to scrub the drum. I learned that if you accidentally sent a pen through the dryer about 10 years ago, and it left residual blue marks that never came off, you can get them off with Bon Ami if you scrub hard enough. The drum is in better shape, but it took a long time because I had to keep going to sit down. This better go away soon, but I think I said that last week, too.
posted by missmolly at 9:08 PM
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The Anna's Hummingbird is the most common hummingbird found in Southern California. It is also one of three species of hummingbirds, along with Allen's and Costa's, that are permanent residents of the U.S. or Canada. Also, unlike most other species of hummingbirds, they have a minimal song.
Here is a very interesting fact about the Anna's Hummingbird: it was originally only found on the Pacific slope from Baja California to San Francisco. This bird has increased its population and expanded its breeding range in recent years to Vancouver, British Colombia, east to southern Arizona. This expansion is believed to be due to the introduction of exotic flowering plants, especially Eucalyptus, red-hot-poker and tree tobacco,and by the proliferation of hummingbird feeders.
The Anna's Hummingbird likes to use the bird bath. They like to get a drink on hot days. They especially like bird baths that drip as they can hover and sip water as it runs over the edge. They will also perch on the edge and drink as other birds do but they only sit still for a minute.
Anna's Hummingbirds have an unusually early breeding season. It is believed that the plant gooseberry and the hummingbird have evolved together, which may help explain why a favorite native food source of the Anna's Hummingbird is red gooseberry, an abundant plant that flowers early in spring. This species of hummingbird also consumes more insects than any other North American hummingbirds, catching small flying insects on the wing in the manner of a flycatcher, or by hover-gleaning among the leaves and twigs of trees. Or they find sustenance at the sap wells of sapsuckers or by pilfering insects from the webs of spiders. The Anna's Hummingbird eats more arthropods than most hummingbirds.
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I do hope you will be posting pics of the chicks! I guess because the males have the colorful gorget, they're the ones that get photographed all the time. I do look forward to you posting a pic of the mom and babies! - Oh, and don't forget to hang hummingbird feeders for them. Mom will need lots of nourishment and eventually, so will the little ones.
On another note, your comment amount the husband-made braid cracked me up. I also have my husband braid my hair - just for fun. But, I never go out in public with the "do".
I'm looking forward to your update about your little hummies! Thanks!!
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