My girlfriend Heather has a slight obsession with her bird and hummingbird feeders. She even subscribes to Birds and Blooms. Well I have mocked her, pointed and laughed, even chanted the occasional... crazy bird lady in her direction. The time has come to eat crow (no offense to crows) and apologize.
Until a few days ago I had no idea how lovely bird watching could be. We were at Heather's house for dinner and the beauty of the dozen or so hummingbirds we saw completely convinced me that I needed to be the next bird lady and get some feeders.
We put up two regular seed feeders and just got our hummingbird feeder up on Tuesday. Apparently if you feed them they will come! We have been discovered! They come by 2's and even sometimes 3's. It is very exciting to sit really still on the couch and be so close to them buzzing around right outside the window. This hummingbird guy even posed for a few pictures! He has a really pretty bright red throat.



The point is...The BarnHouse is host to more of God's creatures than I would sometimes like to admit. We have seen snakes, lizards, giant spiders, wild turkeys, deer, armadillo, raccoon, random dogs and cats, possums, geese, turtles, nasty killer man eating mosquitoes, stinky gerbils, frogs, and all the other "normal" yard animals. No one will even notice the bird migration into our yard!