Weekend walk report: Super what?!

It's game time and looks like I'm not watching. I did however check in for a moment to see the game go 17-zip in favor of the Philadelphia Eagles. Really don't care, really don't care, don't care, really don't.*

Here are some pictures from walks on Saturday, February 8th and Sunday (today), February 9th. I was so happy to see some hummingbirds again today.

 Saturday, February 8th

I believe these are Senecio elegans, known by the common names, purple groundsel, wild cineraria and purple ragwort. 

Some variety of Geranium.

Dianthus barbatus, AKA, the sweet William.

Salvia Greggii 'White', AKA, the autumn sage.

Gaillardia pulchella (Indian blanket).

This is a canna lily Flower. My bad, I knocked it off the stem by cutting off a piece of dead debris with my pen knife.

 Sunday (today), February 9th

I want to thank Docken for joining me over the phone today. It made things a lot nicer and I probably wouldn't have had the patience to stick around if she wasn't there. A couple of women decided to hang out nearby and if I didn't have Docky on the phone to complain to I certainly wouldn't have had the fortitude to endure their cackling off in the distance.  Also, in making sure I didn't cross paths with them, that put me squarely next to a flowering Eremophila racemosa shrub loaded with flowers and very attractive to several hummingbirds.

 A couple of different Setophaga coronata (warblers), AKA, Butter Butts.

Bees on some variety of Acacia shrubs.

The stars of the show. There were at least two but I think three male Calypte anna (Anna's) hummingbirds, two are shown in these images and there was also a female Selasphorus sasin (Allen's hummingbird). The fierce competition over this rather large Eremophila racemosa shrub made things really difficult for the photographer. They spent more time chasing each other away than they did seeking nectar. I don't recall this bush ever flowering so prolifically before, although it's relatively new, maybe in its third year in the garden.

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