Thursday's Bird Watch

This male Anna's Hummingbird was photographed Saturday at the juice feeder on our 2nd floor balcony in the Lodge Courtyard here at Dallas Retirement Village.  His brilliant display appeared to be part of a territorial dispute that continued to go on most of the afternoon as a couple of males and one female vied for dominance of the feeder.  It seemed more vicious than the normal food dispute, and then I remembered that the breeding season is close at hand. Nesting starts for hummingbirds as early as February, so there may be more importance to this tussle than just food.