September 14, 2005 [LINK]

Nice evening stroll

The hummingbirds have stopped coming by our feeder on the back porch, sadly, but they are still in the neighborhood. The hummers like sipping nectar from these pale blue flowers, which are from a mystery "volunteer" vine [*] that keeps trying to strangle our basil plants, whose tiny flowers the hummers also enjoy. Here's what I saw on the trail behind the Staunton-Augusta Rescue Squad while taking a walk to enjoy the beautiful weather just before dusk yesterday:

• Ruby-throated hummingbirds (F/J)
• Brown thrasher
• American redstarts (F/J)
• Black-throated green warbler (F/J)
• Eastern wood-pewee
• Least flycatcher (FOS)
• Downy woodpecker (F)
• Hairy woodpecker (M)

UPDATE: I later learned that these are Morning glories!