Amongst the unexpected gifts from the sudden onset of heat this week-end was the repeated visits from of my favourite and littlest feathered friends. Having always been quite curious about their marvelous flying abilities, I was quite excited when one of them, decided to stay on the branches of this dead tree, long enough for me to capture it in my viewfinder.
Our neighbour from across the garden has a hummingbird feeder on his balcony and this helped increase the visits of those tiny flying miracles in our backyard.
Hummingbirds are such astonishing creatures to observe and I felt so lucky to be able to observe him/her this week-end. I hope it’s the beginning of a beautiful friendship 😉
Far Away In The Sunshine 
Have never seen a humming bird in the wild … I’m envy now. *smile – we don’t have them over here.
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I had never seen them in France either…they are such a wonder to observe 🙂
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Feathered enchantment.
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I love this Soosie 🙂
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Exciting Anyes. Hummingbirds bring good tidings.
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Oh Elena…I could totally use good tidings 🙂
Thank you xo
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I have a shrimp plant outside my window which entices them and they come more often than when we didn’t have it! I love them. In French they are called “oiseau-mouche” Bird Fly’s ! I love the noise their wings make when they come near…
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Les oiseaux-mouches cela fait tellement longtemps que je n’avais lu ce mot Merci Lisa
Such a long time I had not read this word “oiseau-mouche” Thank you Lisa 🙂
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Hey thanks for removing me from spam. having some issues with WP and hope it gets fixed. You write awesomely:)
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I am glad it is fixed and I am looking forward to your visits and will come over to your place too 🙂
Than k you for your kind words
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Here in Mexico we are staying in a place with a beautiful lush garden and see hummers just about every other day. One day one of them sat still long enough for me to get a shot, but they’re so fast I’d never get one flying. How wonderful for you that they’ve returned to Van – Spring has sprung!
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Spring has sprung and it is about time if you ask me Alison 😉
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I was never a “bird person”. My great grandmother had a budgie and we “baby sat” it from time to time…I just thought it was “messy”. My mother worked in a kindergarten for years and on holidays would bring home the budgie from the classroom…another “messy” visitor. I paid neither of these birds any attention but cleaned the cage when asked. And what do you think those birds learned to say while in my presence? MY NAME!! lol!!! Now of course I am more in tune with birds…we had a robin make a nest right outside our front door a few years ago and it was so awakening to watch the life process. I had a hawk land in the tree outside the front of our house a few months ago and a hawk is rare in this area. And I stand so still in order to watch them and hopefully capture photographs. May you have a wonderful experience with your birds this year! xo
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I am brand new watching birds and somehow I could really see the attraction. I hope to be able to capture more on photos they are such lovely creatures 🙂
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Its such a beautiful post and I love watching them. It is a treat:)
Vishal
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Do you have a lot of them where you live Vishal?
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ah very cool….once the season really changes i hope we get ours back from last year….used to watch them flit about off the back porch….
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This is the first year I have actually seen one Brian and I am in awe of how marvelous it was looking, buzzing around so fast 🙂
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