V Agent for Breakfast: King of the Rake

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Finally got a few shots of the little guy that likes to perch on my leaf rake so he can keep an eye on the feeder with the broken flower.

At 12:06 AM, jin said...: Awww...cute!!!
I SWEAR he just telepatically asked me to ask you to fix that broken flower.....
At 4:03 AM, CCCCppppCCppp said...: PK

Why are you still stalking this poor little thing ? He'd be barely a mouthful, besides I heard they taste just like soy!
At 8:36 AM, Is it sync'd yet? said...: That bird scares me, it has a crazy eye.

Gnat.
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At 10:08 AM, Sarah Letnes said...: You got him! Is his throat purple?
At 7:30 PM, Sugarfoot said...: SL, only after drinking grape nectar from the feeder with the broken flower.
At 9:08 PM, The Phosgene Kid said...: Jin: the broken flower is his favorite to drink from, only the female humming birds have a hissy about the broken flower.

FS: Hummers aren't for eating, they're just for looking at. Even the pups ignore them, though Yukon did take a cut at a black bumblebee the size of a small plane the other day. I think that would have been a real mouthful if he would have connected.

Gnat: He was eyeing me up... The little devils aren't too happy about me lurking around the feeder, hence the crazy eye. I was out this evening trying to get some shots with my dad's old camera so I could get a bit farther away. They still spooked at the click of the shutter.
quite right for me to catch the
SL: Purple it is, the light wasn't flash though.

SF: Interesting theory on the throat flash...