Thursday's Bird Watch

Dale Pader, Facility Operations Director here at Dallas Retirement Village, stopped us on the street last Tuesday, March 26th, to alert us to a nesting Anna's Hummingbird in the Central Courtyard.  I went directly to the Courtyard, found the nesting bird, and took this photo.  Unfortunately, I lost track of the tree the nest was in, and mistakenly found an empty nest in another tree, which led me to conclude for three days that the bird had abandoned the nest.  Very fortunately, Dale just happened by the Courtyard on Friday the 29th,  and pointed out the bird and the nest to us.  I was both embarrassed and elated at the same time.  Anna's Hummingbirds have an average of 16 day incubation period, so we will be looking for the hatchlings in a couple of weeks