Friday, February 04, 2011

The Big Chill

We have just gone through two of the coldest nights EVER in Tucson. Here’s my pond:
frozen splash2 2-4-2011 8-43-25 AM 3616x2712
Here’s the poor dead hummingbird that succumbed to hypothermia yesterday:
deadhum 2-3-2011 2-24-20 PM 650x640
There are a few hummers around today, fighting and feeding. I think my grapefruit tree is dead. It looks really awful. I can’t even bear to think about the hummingbirds out in the wild that have no source of nectar but frozen flowers. Sad, sad, sad.

2 comments:

  1. Can they hide in holes in saguaro cacti? Do you have saguaros around there?

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  2. It is so hard for birds to make it through the winter under normal circumstances but how hard this winter must be on birds of your climate.
    nellie

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