A nice warm seat,I hope.

Pretty

Although Anna's are year round residents here, I have never been lucky enough to witness a nesting female. Too many good, secluded places for them to do so!! I just notice that they seem to disappear in March for a short period of time and then magically reappear.

On another note, I have a robin who is busy nest building! She seems to think the exposed rafters of my patio covering deck is a good place (right in front of my sliders!) and so far, has attempted 4 nests there. They are all in different stages of construction as apparently, the first was not to her liking so she hopped to the next opening and tried again. And again and again :-). The last is the most complete and looks good to lay eggs but I haven't seen her around for a few days. Maybe she has decided there is too much coming and going right outside her intended nursery (which there is). And it is only mere feet from the hummingbird feeder as well!

Anna's have nested in our pine tree, but too high to see. However, I can count on seeing eye-level nests at a local nursery--the plants thoroughly marked with Not for Sale! and Caution tape make them easy to find.

The hummingbird feeder activity has really gone down lately here too; I have not made the adjustment from the previous 18 cup batches of sugar water very well, and now have to throw out a lot to make fresh.

Wish that one had given up as well, too close to garden traffic :(, but seems to get use to it, or the baby hatched so standing her ground and not always flying off as I carefully walk by it. Hoping the baby won't get sea sick too easily as mother did not pick the most stable twigs to build the nest.

Sorry for the out of focus pic, taken with a phone from a respectable distance...

Oh that string light seems like a very precarious place to put a nest! Great picture!

Love the nest with the dog hair. That is so cool.

I'm used to only ruby-throated hummers, but the nest on the string of lights seems so unprotected.......but I have to assume they know what they're doing....?

And as to the dog hair nest......whenever I "furminate" my doggie, I always save the fur and put it outside, where it might get put to good use. :)

Catherinet, that's a good idea. I never thought to do that. I have this visual image of some bird picking fur off my 95 lb dog as he dozes outside, lol!

Here's one on a tillandsia in my back yard. We mostly have Allen's hummingbirds, and they stay here all winter. We get a few Anna's visiting, but the resident male Allen's tries to run them away, even though he is smaller. I have not found any nests, but I'm pretty sure where they are, but I haven't really looked for them.

I have a German Shedder, er Shepherd. This spring I removed probably 25 daily

clutches of undercoat when I brushed her each day. And everyday I'd take those

handfuls of hair out to my yard and leave them. Fast forward to now and every

single little pile of soft undercoat is gone. They found them. And hopefully

are lining the many bird nests popping up in my trees. Maybe the squirrels took

some also. It's amazing to see what squirrels will use to line their nests. Like the

chair seat pad they pulled off, removed the fabric and used the foam like material

for their nest.

So put that dog hair out in your yard and help out the birds and squirrels.

mr1010........About squirrels.......they actually chew the bottoms of the painted wooden posts on our open front porch. They also seem to love stripping the bark off our tulip tree branches. Luckily, they haven't ruined any of our seat pads....yet. I do love the squirrels though.

Michelle Shrade gives us this current Arizona resident enjoying a Mamm.

Looks like they won't be here for long at all.

Another sign of spring - getting ready for some overhead work with the extension pruner. It's really an organic process.

Baby is growing nicely, worried it will try to jump out of the nest too early every time I walk by :(

All great pics, cactusmcharris!