Today's Backyard Wildlife

I saw a hummingbird essentially taking a bath in the water droplets our sprinkler left on the leaves of a potentilla bush. I've never seen one do this before. The potentilla has small leaves but pretty densely packed. The sprinkler left water drops all over the surface of the bush. A juvenile male Anna's hummingbird was walking around, not flying, on top of the bush and rubbing his head, chest, neck, wings, everything except rolling over. The only thing I can think of is it was using the drops to bath in. Kind of cool. And I now can get the chickadees to come to the feeder while I'm holding it in my hand. Well, at least one chickadee trusts me enough to come to the feeder.
 
Nubsnstubs said:
Not my yard again, but the same customer with the large flowers in another post. This bird was hatched here and hasn't left yet. It may never leave as there is plenty of wild food for it. I don't know what kind of hawk it is. It's also not too squeamish about people less than 20 feet from it. It's in a large Mesquite.
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Here it is again. It is allusive. It's been living here about 6 months I know of. Could have been hatched here, but there is plenty of food, so no reason to leave.
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