Importance of Community Scientists and Native Plants
You too can participate in helping our feathered friends and scientists! For information click on this: https://www.audubon.org/content/h...
Hummingbirds visiting
With all the plants starting to bloom, more pollinators, including hummingbirds are visiting. This is an Anna's hummingbird sipping...
Ultraviolet light, flowers and pollinators
What a fascinating article and equally fantastic photos by Craig Burrows, of flowers and how they appear to pollinators. The pollen of...
Respite for the birds in the garden
The birds are surviving the toxic air that has been surrounding us for more than a week. Fortunately we aren't too close to the...
Anna's hummingbird sipping
Here in the Bay Area, this month has the nickname "Fogust". It's foggy until midday, then the sun breaks through. While the temperatures...
Anna's Hummingbird sipping from a California Figwort blossom
Now that the California Figwort Scrophularia californica is blooming again, the hummingbirds have another nectar source in our plant beds...
Rufous hummingbird visiting the Hummingbird sage
A rare sighting, a Rufous hummingbird visiting the plants around the patio. Usually Anna's hummingbirds are the only ones we see around...
Blooms on the Hummingbird Sage
After heavy rains, the California hummingbird sage Salvia spathacea is producing its first blooms of the year. This plant is native to...
Anna's hummingbird in the drizzle
It's been raining non-stop for several days now. During the heavy showers the birds are hunkering down in the trees. But when the rain is...
