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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanJan 24, 12 Comments Off
Good evening readers, this morning as Aimee and I left the house our next door neighbor pulls up in her car and says, “I just saw the cutest thing ever”!! She said there is hummingbird in her yard laying on two tiny little eggs in a small yucca bush and that we just had to see it!! We quickly ran over and quietly peeked into the plant and sure enough there it was, a tiny little nest with two eggs the size of jelly beans, but no hummingbird? Since we were running late and we had to go I told our neighbor and Aimee I will go back later today and check again and try to get a few photos. So after doing a sub dive I took off back to the house for lunch and to let the dogs and to go check on the hummingbird. I grabbed my camera and tripod and took off and immediately saw from a distance that the female hummingbird was now home and sitting on the nest. I ever so quietly moved in and was shocked at how trusting this bird was, it never really moved at all! I honestly sat about two feet away from the nest for around 30 minutes and never once did this small little bird show any signs off stress, really amazing. This is a Common or Blue-tailed Emerald Hummingbird, Chlorostilbon mellisugus. The male is a glittering green (emerald) color while the female (seen here) is duller with grey under parts. I will keep you posted on new developments, so stay tuned!
At 5:00 Stijn and I took off on our weekly Tuesday night ride. About 15 minutes into our ride we passed two nice local dogs on the beach and we figured the owner must be here somewhere just out of view. My gut feeling told me to stop and to make sure that there was a person here so I yelled at Stijn to hold-up and lets see if we can find some owners!! I called the dogs over and Stijn went to look for a human but sure enough these were two lost dogs! I immediately called Aimee and told her to grab some leashes and get down here to the beach ASAP and help me get these dogs back to the car, I figured at least they would be safe at our house. Well, as we were holding them and petting them we noticed they both had a phone number written on their collars! I grabbed my phone and called and prayed someone would answer! The phone rang and I said, “are you missing two dogs”?? A woman’s voice came on and said YES, where are you?? Turns out the dogs were a long ways from home and had been gone for days! Aimee showed up and put them on a leash and we all went back to the car where the dogs owner was waiting! It was a great reunion, talk about a happy ending, those two dogs will sleep good tonight!
It’s off to bed, still raining here!! See ya, Barry
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