Mellow yellow, that's right you heard right the theme for tonight is yellow. As I wandered around the local botanical garden today I quickly realized, a lot of stuff was suddenly blooming and a great deal of it was predominantly yellow.
While I was bopping around my local garden Docken was bopping around the one near her and so we bopped together over the phone. Thank you Dockie!
Here are the images I chose out of 492 taken.
Encelia californica.
Last week I mentioned male Calypte anna hummingbird, Dusty, perhaps knowing when I arrived in the garden. Today, I kid you not, he wasn't on his Caesalpinia gilliesii bush so I called him and sure enough he came flying in and perched himself right down.
These are all various types of Acacia bushes/trees. I'm not feeling especially inclined to label them after spending about 3.5 hours editing photos. If you feel tremendously curious you can hover over images or open them on their own window and probably see the name I gave them. Always remember you may click to enlarge. Personally, I go look at the images on a 43" TV right after I post.
Grevillea laevis.
Another Acacia.
Another male Calypte anna hummingbird (not Dusty) on a Senna bicapsularis shrub.
Leucadendron.
There's always a mockingbird, this one on the Senna bicapsularis shrub. It looks like she might be with egg(s). Mockingbirds usually nest twice a year sometimes 3 or 4 times when conditions are favorable.
Eremophila glabra.
Dusty and I got together three times for some pictures.
Allocasuarina torulosa, AKA, the forest oak.
Beautiful, sunny and bright. Even the chubby little mockingbird is feelin' all mellow in yellow. Loving Dusty doing his best Darth Vader impression... only with a lot more color and flare. He's showing off for his favorite human.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed these pics. The clarity is just amazing. Dusty just might be the world’s most talented hummingbird 😎 Anonymous Trey
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