No Hummers This Year

I'm sad. Not because we aren't able to buy a big, ugly SUV this year...


I don't have any hummingbirds.


Last year, we had three or four in our neighborhood. One bird would come and sit in the ficus tree on our front porch, guarding the feeder that hung out there. Any other poor, hungry bird would immediately get chased off whenever its beak got too close. I would sit and watch for minutes on end. (Moms don't have hours to sit and stare.)


This year, perhaps due to the late frost or some other unknown (maybe Finley screaming at the first hummingbird that approached as we sat on the porch), my feeders have remained without patrons.