huaflower's Journal

Reason I'm on iNaturalist. I needed someplace to play with the plants on our land. (And other interesting things.) I love ebird and use it for the birds but there was nowhere for the plants and deer and foxes and walking sticks.

This is a beautiful place especially in the spring when everything is greening up or flowering or both.
We've owned this land since 2006. We are using it for nature. We have a walk trail about a mile long and other possible ways to walk. We've been working on the cactus. It took over. Place was over grazed sometime in past but now only the white tail and the axis graze.

On the 26th, I stumbled upon a male black-chinned hummer who had laid claim to a piece of suvannah near the drive way. Very easy to monitor. Not out 1 km or so. So I decided to watch him.

Photo graphed the location on 26th and on the 27 photographed bird. See ebird. Today at 7:18 pm saw him again at his perch. Looked for him around 7:50 AM no bird.

What I'd like to know is how long do male hummers stick to a territory. This one has indian blanket as most of the visible flowers. But he keeps going off into the live oaks and cactus to the east of his perch. Factor may be distance from house (around .15 km).

Today (April 29) I walked out to his territory early (7:30AM CDT). At first didn't see him but then I saw him on a bush to the left of the "perch" tree. It has rained since midnight, stopped early morning when I took my walk and has started again. Where I saw him was more protected, some low bushes in front of a live oak.

Took a picture of black chinned hummingbirds at our feeders. But my camera isn't very good and I'm still learning how to use it. When I took picture there were at least 4 hummingbirds flying around.