As of last Sunday, all the adult hummers have left us! Just as I predicted. We just have the juveniles now and they really are little delinquents! They fight and screech all day long as they, too, fatten up for the long migration in a few weeks. So it appears that we won't be having any hummers around here by the first of October, like usual.
The Lesser Goldfinches seem to have moved on too. There was a juvenile at the feeder on Monday but not since.
Last summer we had a flock of Sandhill Cranes that would hang out in the fields of some neighbors but not this year. We are in the monsoon now and everything is still pretty green. Maybe they will show up once the crops are harvested. There have been some great photos of them taken here in the past and published in the newspaper, but I am trying to get my own photos to use.
One great thing about this time of year is that its Chile Season! Half a block away is a little produce store and they have a chile roaster in the parking lot. I just love the smell of the green chile roasting. Soon the red chile ristras will be everywhere. That is New Mexico to me!
Stay tuned.
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