New friends: Hummingbirds. #1
I watched #CraigFoster's #myoctopusteacher a few days ago. Very captivating, inspiring nature documentary. I don't have a store of that level. However, I find myself with Hummingbirds this year, and I want to talk about them over the next few days.
Thanks to #COVID19, I am not on the #405 freeway and inside some corporate walls most of the days. I get time to go out and walk, hike, bike, and roam around in our backyard. This is an unintended gift of the lockdown. Everything has two sides- good and bad. This year, Hummingbirds- these little birds have become a part of my world. I am going to introduce these little friends, and share some part of my world with you all over the next few days.
Ch 1: New Affection.
I go on #MtMcCoy hike most of these days. It is my new oxygen. I feel suffocated if I am not out in nature at least once a day. At the beginning of 2021, I used to go in the mornings, and in this particular segment of the trail, I would see this Hummingbird. I saw her (not sure him or her but I like to believe it is she) almost every morning. If she was not there, I would wait 5 minutes and she would come! She would sit proudly on these dry branches, and always on the top, overlooking #SimiValley, and probably waiting for me Haha. Hummingbirds are solitary. I have never found two birds sitting on a single branch, next to each other. Here was this bird. Always there, and always alone.
There are multiple trails on this hill but I would always come back the same way, to say hello to this little friend. This was something I would look forward to every morning.
Now I know why she was always there during the early part of 2021. I think January-March is the time period when these birds are relaxed. No nesting. No babies. No responsibilities. Not sure where they sleep or what they do during the day but this little bird was always there, every morning looking over Simi Valley. Making sure the world is safe. (I wish I could do that few months a year: do nothing, be in the flow of the life how nature intended it to be on this planet. No 8-5s, no bills-mortgages, no stocks, no screens, no have tos..)
Here are some photos of my friend.
