Click Click Zoom

It's been an incredible year for hummingbirds in my yard. I started the summer with just one feeder, but as the summer went on, and I watched how territorial the little boogers are, I added more and I'm up to four now. Every morning when I wake at 5 a.m. to exercise, I can hear them outside my bedroom window: "Click Click ... Zoom." I've always heard you are supposed to take down the feeders at the end of the summer, but I was talking with a neighbor today who said the Anna's hummers are just arriving and they winter over here, so she keeps one feeder up all year, and makes sure it's not frozen in the winter. So that's why I spotted one twice last winter -- once in January and once in February, and couldn't believe it. Kind of nice to know we have those little visitors year round. I keep them in mind when I'm planting flowers, and ... I'll happily keep them well fed with nectar through the winter.