Who Needs the Weather App?

I know I’ve written about it before, but birds seem to have barometric brains. I saw it displayed again just the other day!

A young Ruby-throated Hummingbird paid a visit to the Zinnias, but instead of his typical darting in and dashing off, he was intent on sticking around to gather as much nectar as his tiny tummy could hold. He ate from the orange flowers..

…and he ate from the white flowers…

…and he ate from the red flowers…

…and he ate from the yellow flowers.

He even sipped from those flowers whose petals had previously been plucked by the Goldfinches!

Although he showed no major flower favoritism, he did seem to have a slight penchant for the pink!

This fellow (you can tell he is an immature male because of the streaks on his neck) was not the least bit concerned with my presence, and was thoroughly focused on getting his belly full. His behavior was so odd that I shot Rick (aka “hubby”, aka “household hero”) a text at work and told him to be on the lookout for pop up storms.

Sure enough, as soon as I got back in the house and packed the camera away a crashing BOOM resounded, the skies darkened, and the rain came pelting down. The winds whipped up out of nowhere and were such that on his trip home, Rick had to dodge a trampoline that had been lifted from someone’s lawn and was now residing in the middle of the road!

It was such a treat to have a pre-storm photo session with this handsome fellow.

And in case you’re wondering why I didn’t just check the weather app to see if bad weather was headed our way, our internet had been taken out by a lightning strike the day before and still wasn’t working. But really, who needs the weather app anyway when you have such reliable little forecasters!

By the way, I hope you’re not getting sick of seeing the Zinnias that are popping up in all my recent posts. They are enticing a lot of beauty to come their way and are sure to be seen several more times before the season ends.

Published by kathydoremus

Unknown's avatar

Amateur nature "photogriter." One who still marvels at majesty.

7 thoughts on “Who Needs the Weather App?”

  2. ….who knew what that old fashioned annual could entice and woo? Like your (gorgeous) photographs chronicle, ours bring a host of swallowtails as well as our British Columbia species of hummingbirds, to the point where I’m going to feature them next year, and have located a few specialty zinnia seed companies, like this one: https://zinniaseeds.com/. I never knew there could be so many types and colours of a flower often thought of as ordinary.

    1. They have become my favorite flower – maybe tied with sunflowers! I’m gonna have to check out that site because I was just telling my husband we need to plant more next year! Thanks!

  4. I wholeheartedly agree with your thoughts on wildlife being much more attuned to impending weather than we are, Kathy. Here hippos and crocodiles moving out of and away from the larger rivers is a sure sign of flooding being a few days from coming. Of course they’re not nearly as attractive as this little weather forecaster of yours!

Comments are closed.