successful fledge

need to go to werk. do not want. but it's only for a couple of hours. and i'll make back what i spent on food today so yay (unenthused).

the hummingbird babies all fledged. i never got to check on them yesterday so I have no idea if they made it or got eaten by the lawn mower or leaf blowers that come on mondays or if they fledged this morning maybe? i dunnoooooooo. the last i saw early monday morning one was perched on the side of the nest, so, probably yesterday. i kept my sign out there though so hopefully they didn't get hurt, the landscapers were aware of them.

all one can do is hope.

that seemed so short a time for babies to be born and grow up.

mama did awesome, whatever happens.

i will keep an eye out for them around the feeders, mama will keep feeding them for a couple more days, and show them around, if they made it.

can't stop spoiling

had a nice day, tough, emotionally, but how can i complain when everything is fine but my brain just decides it hates me? i was sooooooooooooo miserable on the ice, this morning, i'm just so distraught and alone out there, i hate that feeling, i don't have any focus, what is the point other than "skate" which is way too vague and open-ended, i have no goals, no accomplishments to work toward, no reward at the end other than "i made myself skate," it pretty much is just torture. but i remember it being fun, once upon a time, and i keep thinking maybe one day it will be again.

my shoulder is so messed up that my left arm was cramping during a spin. a SPIN. wth. that has literally never happened to me.

ageing SUX.

*pout*

there's this line in the Matrix (spoiler) where Niobe says, "I know it doesn't seem fair, but neither does getting old, and you don't hear me complaining" that's fine for you Niobe but I am whining my ass off about it, lol.

hummingbird rearing redux?

went out to the courtyard with lunar and tried to find mama hummingbird, was hoping to catch her feeding her babies so I would know she made it. saw one squeaking in a tree, followed her at a distance to the feeder, then a rhododendron bush, then a camelia, then she settled into this bush I don't know what it is but has big wide leafed palm looking leaves and these weird seed ball things of perhaps budding flowers of some sort?

and saw her in there, sitting on a nest.

no babies.

a totally different mama on a totally different 2nd brood nest.

omg.

now i have another family to follow, eeeeeeee.

Luckily there's no more pruning this season, and apparently her nest survived the gutter cleaning so far, I might put my sign under her nest tomorrow because they might not be done cleaning all the gutters yet?

never saw previous mama or her babies anywhere, but I'll keep an eye out. it's possible they've already left the courtyard in favor of friendlier, quieter, more flowery places. a few yards around here have lovely flower gardens and there are lots of feeders in the neighborhood.