Hummingbirds are feisty little birds.
I sat on a screened porch looking out over his parched yard into the hundred degree heat, the browns outmatching the greens following almost three years of drought. But as far as wildlife is concerned, this could have been a yard in western New York. A cardinal occasionally flew by. A pair of titmice and a lovely bluebird visited the long-needled pines between this house and the next. A praying mantis sat quietly on a hedge twig.