There is something I love about hummingbirds. It just happened that I received a message about birds after asking "when do hummingbirds return to Sumter?" I received the message the day before they were expected back here...20 March is their projected arrival. I made up a batch of hummingbird food on the 21st and put it out. THEN, low and behold, I was sitting on the loveseat reclining after our Zoom Sunday School class and THERE WAS A HUMMINGBIRD at the feeder! A week late, but...maybe not. Of course, I don't spend all day every day waiting for a sighting so I might have missed a visit. Next, on Tuesday afternoon Dear One was reading on the deck and in came another, or the same, one who had no concerns about people sitting there five feet away. I am so happy.
If you look at the bottom right of the red "dish" you can see the little guy feeding. Delightful.
Sunday morning on the way home from picking up a lady for church we saw quite a sight! When I came back from dropping her back off at her home after church I promised myself to stop and take a picture if they were still there. They were.
Yes, you are correct! These are black vultures. They were "cleaning up" after a car accident had taken a life (a big white-tailed deer). They were having quite a party. This was a small part of the group. The carcass did not interest me but finally I have a picture of one of the two types of vultures in South Carolina. Not very pretty, but... I had seen one up really close a couple of months ago but on a crooked narrow road where I could not safely stop to get a picture. Now we have a picture.
