It’s spring in Arizona and we’ve got a hummingbird nest in our yard! We’ve been putting out hummingbird food for many years. We’ve never found a nest in our yard though. Until this week! I’m so excited! We even have our spotting scope set up in my yoga/art studio to watch her and the nest. This is pretty special.
When time to make her nest, the female hummingbird will go around gathering spider webbing. She then uses that spider webbing to attach her nest to the branch, as well as to use in making the nest itself. She will lay two tiny eggs (which always remind me of a Pez candy). As those two eggs hatch and the babies start to grow, because of that stretchy spider webbing, that nest will go from round to more oblong to accommodate those two little guys as they grow bigger.
It’s spring in Arizona and we’ve got flowers! This is always such a beautiful time of year, and this year I’ve been so excited because I have Scarlet Flax and Desert Marigolds for the first time . . .
Lots of our Sonoran Desert native, the Desert Bluebells (Phacelia campanularia) . . .
And the cactus! Really showing off their beauty . . .
It’s spring in Arizona! May you enjoy your spring.