Close call, glad to here your OK.

Glad you can out with too many scratches. I know you were proud to get the rain.

thanks for the update, cat. glad to hear you and yours are ok.
how are you doing, lt? did you make it through ok?

Nice to hear that you are safe.

Glad that you get the benefit of some of the rain without all the wind! Hang in there!

Glad your okay! Sarah

I got home a few hours ago (they gave us an option to take leave or stay as part of the skeleton crew - so of course, I booked it out of there!!!)

It was extremely windy with torrential rains buffeting my car on the drive home!!! Lots of flooded roads and many detours. Good thing I drive an Xterra!!!

Got home and checked around the house and yard. I could hear the hummies squeaking up in oak tree by my garage again.

All the feeders were empty! Guess hummies do feed in between the rain and wind afterall! Anyway, I hung up two of my 32 ounce feeders from the beam of my backporch - it's sheltered by about two feet of porch eave so they stay dry and out of the brunt of the wind.

I often make a 'kissy sound' (for lack of a better description) whenever I'm out filling feeders - sort of my way of letting the hummies know fresh nectar is here. I hadn't even made it into the house when I heard a hummie happily chirping at the feeder!!! I stood by my sliding glass door and watched it feed. It was making lots of noise so I hope the others will hear and come investigate.

I tell you, it didn't take that hummie but about 10 seconds to show up!!!

That was several hours ago when it was still raining too. I just stepped out on the back porch to check the feeders and counted four hummies zipping around the yard. I think the worst is past us now. The wind and rain has let up. I can also see doves and mockingbirds flying around and sitting on the telephone wires too.

Whew! That was a close one!!! :o)

~ Cat

Glad you and the birds are okay! Sarah

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! I spoke too soon! It's raining again! Windy too! Must have been the lull in the storm from one of those arms of the hurricane the weatherman likes to talk about....GRRRRRRRRR!!!!

Oh well, the hummies still come to feeders under the backporch. The lull in the storm was nice...while it lasted!!! I was standing on a step stool right next to the feeder. You can see part of my rain gutter in the far corner - the hummies don't seem to mind being so far under the porch roof when they're looking for food :o)

Saw one pecking at a pink whirlygig pig fan pull I have hanging from my ceiling fans back there. Too funny!!!

It was too fast for me...but this is what the pink pig fan pull looks like. My porch is a mess - I stockpiled all my patio furniture and stuff to keep it out of the hurricane's path - had to crop out the junk of course :o)

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~ Cat

Glad you didn't have any damage from Emily.

Those pictures are adorable! Be careful! Sarah

Cool pictures.

Glad that you didn't have any damage from Emily. SPI looks pretty torn up though.

We got lots of rain, some wind and a high tide from the feeder bands of Emily, but nothing to complain about. We hadn't had any rain out here since May 29, so I welcomed the 3" of rain that we got over several days. DH is very happy for the rain since the water company called this morning to tell him that last month's water bill was over $700.00. Hey, I had to keep my plants happy, and the birds loved the sprinklers going daily too.

This morning I looked out back to see a little hummer at the feeder. I guess the wind caused all of the solution to run out, and the feeder was empty. So I cleaned and refilled both of my feeders, and the hummers were back eating immediately.

Glad to hear that y'all are all ok after Emily. We were watching the storms route since I have a lot of family in and around Houston, San Antonio and Floresville.

Penny

tPP, my mom, 78 years old lives 15 1/2 miles from the mexican border. South of La Villa on FM 491
i go "visit" her about once every 6 weeks. go to mexico, ie progreso when i am down there i was born and raised there. went to Santa Rosa High School
mom has lots of banana plants, which she sells to a man for 2.50 each. this april she sold about 350 of them. He then takes to Dallas and re sells them there

i am into fruiting plants/trees.
planted some peaches and nectarines. she planted some figs
and avos.
i want to plant moe avos
if u want more info on avos let me know. i know most ppl in the rgv that grow/sell avos.

do u know which hummers u have? if not then here is a link of info on hummers in texas
look at the hummer wheel

Here is a link that might be useful: hummer wheel

The "Hummer Wheel" appears to deal mainly with adult males. It's the identification of females and juveniles that separates the experts from mere "birdwatchers."

For each bird, the wheel tells you its range in North America, habitat type, and distinguishing features of both males and females.

and yes i agree, it takes a while to be able to distinguish between all 3 states, male, female and los ninos

You need a wheel to id hummers in Texas amazing. Glad everyone is okay from emily although I heard mexico got flooded with 15 inches of rain. Hope everyone there's okay too One of these days I'm going to Mexico to see all those hummers! Sarah

Drats! Can you believe we are back to hot and humid weather?! Why only yesterday we were in a hurricane's path! Talk about freaky weather!!!

Everything is fine out here...the hurricane hit further south which was a good thing for Texas. We are still expected to get some odd showers though.

All the hummies are fine. They were zipping about when I left for work this morning and they had emptied the feeders by the time I got home. I really wish ya'll could be here when I'm filling the feeders up...there is one hummie (Maxine) that starts chattering when I walk out with the bottle of nectar. She's also quite brave and hovers by me as I fill the feeders. I barely hang it up and she's on it in a flash!

I really don't know what that hummie gets so excited about - I mean there are plenty of flowers in bloom all over the neighborhood.

Ah...I've seen that hummie wheel before too...but alas, I don't use one to identify the hummies here...the regulars have names :o)

Why, there's Greenie and Gray, Piggie and Pudge, Fluffister and Meanie. Meanie is very territorial and a bully with other hummies. Then there's Maxine (the matriarch of the bunch who I mentioned above). Am not sure how old she is or how many years she's got left - but she showed up in April of 2004 and never left. (Meanie also did not migrate out last fall)

Those few I listed are my regulars. Many others come and go and that I never give names to.

~ Cat