DAN TRUE

    Hummingbird Gifts are the #1 gift item in America. 

Your loved ones will enjoy watching mama hummers build nests, have babies and

return year after year, bringing with them their young who are now adults. 

 

Hummingbirds captured my attention by way of a female golden eagle in Texas.  One April morning, I sat in a small  blind atop a house-sized flat boulder down in the Panhandle's Palo Duro Canyon.  My cameras were poised, awaiting action in an eagle’s cliff nest.  Mesquite, cholla cactus, yucca, and juniper grew in the canyon.  A hundred yards to my right was the edge of a stand of tall red cedar covering several acres on lush ground watered by small springs oozing from the canyon’s walls.  Behind me a quarter of a mile, sunshine sparkled a ribbon of rippling water meandering along the canyon’s grassy floor.   

 

Off and on I had spent twenty years in the Palo Duro Canyon.  Eight of those I lived in the ranch headquarters house of the 16,000-acre spread that included much of the canyon.  Throughout that time I saw only two hummingbirds; one was perched on our chicken lot fence, the second briefly hummed around the head of a female golden eagle I was raising.  Both sightings I dismissed as stray migrants that might have been blown off course by unusual weather.  I did some necessary research, bought and mounted a feeder and filled it with fresh liquid every few days.  After several weeks, I was gifted with visiting hummers.  My life had just taken a drastic change.