Well, they are loaded for bear here! Six of them were all around me late this morning. So close at times, I couldn't get the camcorder on them. At one point, sitting in my chair whistling The Croppy Boy, one large male zipped straight at me and hovered about 1m from my face. I finished whistling the verse, he chirped and went to the first hanging basket of mini-petunias and proceeded to feed for a few miutes, just over 2m from me, with his back to me most of the time. Now, that is trust.

I can't help but think that there is not much time left to enjoy them. The males will begin to leave around the full moon and the females and young will do the same two to three weeks later. >:-(

Add to that the Bald Eagle I watched at the same time, rising on the thermals, as if practising for two moons from now. Unless they too will begin south in about ten days on the next moon? And, we had Blackbirds here a week ago. And, about then, we had a NW wind. The first one in about six weeks. Less than two weeks ago, we had 48H (Humidex temperature) and yesterday, I almost fired up the wood stove.... 17C, wet and windy... from the NW.

I predict an early fall here... long, cool and dry. At least, that is what I ordered.

Of course, I put in a request that the hummers would stay a bit longer, but....