This year we had Hummingbirds enjoying nector from our tree's.  What a surprise.  In the past I have only seen 1 Hummingbird in our back yard.  This year I dug out our old hummingbird feeder and they found it, but they weren't coming  back for more.  I bought another one the whole family started counting Hummingbirds.  We counted 6 different color variations.  We watched in awe and soon notice how territorial they get.  So we bought another feeder that was a little different.  Now the activity picked up.  We put their favorite feeder by the window so that we can watch them more often, One over the pond by the back deck and one on the front deck. 

We have a couple of bird houses that the squirrels kept knocking off the fence.  Someone decided to pick the house off the ground and they stuck it in the pear tree.  A couple built a nest in the house and it was so much fun to watch them build it.  We also put up bird seed feeder and enjoy the birds eating from the feeder.  The most entertaining was watching the couple trying to put large pieces of grass into the house.  He had a hard time,  but he was determined to get it in there.  One morning the dog found the house on the ground and nosed around in the nest.  I picked it up and carefully put the material back into the nest and them put the bottom back on the house.  I grabbed a butter knife and carefully pressed down the nest material.  The couple came home and was not happy.  We are not sure if the couple are still nesting there or not.  We sometimes see them flying to the house.