Flowers, Hummingbirds, and Cow Birds

This flower is the one that the hummingbirds love to land on the stems of, it's called Crocosmia, and the blooms just started opening yesterday.

Not the best shot here but there is a hummingbird sitting on it, will most certainly be trying for better shots, as they continue to visit these flowers. I should be able to get some good ones as long as the deer don't eat the flowers, some years they eat them and others they don't seem to bother them much.

I noticed a couple hummingbirds out by the flowers this morning, when I went outside one of them came and hovered in front of me for a few seconds, and seemed to be eyeing my camera. I'm not certain but it may have been one of the fledglings. Once the blackberries stop blooming, and they're almost finished, the hummingbirds will visit the flower beds more.

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I saw this Chickadee feeding a Brown Headed Cowbird fledgling this afternoon, and managed to get a couple shots of them together.

The Chickadee seems so small compared to the Cowbird. I wonder if it's hard for the Chickadee to keep up with the feeding of this one.

Here's one more shot of the fledgling. Cowbirds lay their eggs in another birds nest, when the eggs hatch I guess the Cowbirds hatchling grows faster, and eats more, then the rest of the hatchlings starve. This Chickadee seems to be accepting the Cowbird as if it is her own.