Baby Hummingbird

Wow, it's been exactly two years since I last posted to this Blog. What's interesting is I stopped blogging soon after getting a new full-time job and now that I'm no longer at that job -- as of last week -- I'm back blogging. Coincidence?

I wish I could blame it on the job, but that's not a very good excuse. I guess it's because I've been "bird watching" but not "birding". When you don't actively go out and try to find birds, you tend not to find birds. Well that and there has been a lot of changes in my life such as moving, job hunting, new software projects and, best of all, my new girlfriend, whom I've been with for nine months now.

I finally saw a Woodpecker in action for the first time a couple of months ago. I still need to go back to the park and properly identify it.

Earlier tonight I was with my girlfriend at the drive-thru of a fast food place and we noticed what looked like a moth eating flowers, and then we both realized at the same time that it was a baby Hummingbird. It was the first time either one of us have ever noticed seeing a baby Hummingbird. It is quite a sight; it was almost supernatural looking, like a tiny fairy straight out of a fantasy novel.