RE: The last winter sunset...
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I love that you keep everything straight out of the Canon SX70. The way you describe the light and clouds feels true to the moment when nothing’s doctored. These late cold nights while the days warm up always make me laugh a bit, like the weather can’t make up its mind. Can’t wait to see the sunbird family. Do they favor any flowers in your garden?
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Thank you for the compliment, and the cold penetrated the earth to deep levels, so it will take some time for the sun to warm the earth up again. The sunbirds love tubular flowers, as they sip nectar from it with their straw shaped tongues.
!BEER
Sounds like the cold really dug in, so no wonder the sun will need a bit to warm things up again. Those straw-shaped tongues are wild. Do your sunbirds go for aloes, cape honeysuckle, or red hot pokers, or is there another favorite in your garden? And cheers for the beer.
Yep, agreed and it will take about a week as usual before things will become seriously hot again.
The sunbirds love all of those, and yes, the sunbirds will visit any plants with tubular flowers.
Perfect, thanks for confirming. I’ll plant more cape honeysuckle and let the aloes do their thing, with a small sugar-water backup when blooms dip. Do they care about the feeder mix, or is 1:4 sugar to water fine? And do you see them more at sunrise or after it warms up?
Yeah, they like the yellow and red honeysuckle flowers more. We don't use any sugar content in our water bottle, just plain water.
The nectar that they sip from the flowers are sweet enough.
!PIZZA