Do you remember the day the male Rufous Hummer was on the feeder but by the time I ran to get my camera, he was gone and did not return? The day the female visited as I waited, so she had her time in the spotlight? They say all good things come to those who wait, and while I am not good at waiting, sometimes I get very lucky. Lucky I was the other afternoon, when it was warm enough and I had done enough during the day that I felt I deserved a beer on the front deck before I started dinner. I was smart enough, this time, to have my camera with me when suddenly I heard the hum of little wings moving faster than the speed of sound (okay, so maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I did hear the hum of little wings), and when I looked up, there he was! Come back to my diner to slurp and give me pleasure.
I used the burst mode on my camera, and to avoid losing the effect, I shall simply show you the pictures, all in a row.
He was in the shade, so the bright color of his collar is lost, but we take what we can get.
Now I have a wee bit of a complaint, and a question. I have noticed lately that when I post a comment on the blogs I read I start getting email notices of other comments posted. That’s because there’s this little default checkmark in that box on those blogs, and I seem to be unable to remember to check that before I submit my comment. Just a tad annoying, as I’d really like to make that choice for myself. But since this has just started, is this a WordPress controlled thing, does anyone know? And am I just being a grumpy old lady that it bothers me?
To keep you completely up-to-date on my exciting life, yesterday was a perfect spring day and the pine cones were calling me, so I loaded up four five-gallon buckets and one 15-gallon pot into the trailer, hitched the trailer to the lawn tractor, grabbed the pine cone picker-upper-thingy and off I went, to the south side of the yard. Four or five trailer loads later, my hands were saying they were done squeezing the thingy to pick up the pine cones for that day. There are still a few more on the south side – and probably more have fallen during the night, although when I asked the trees if they were done depositing their fruit on the ground now, they all said yes, mom, we are – and the north side has an abundant supply, so I suspect I will be spending several more hours out there repeating this action. I’ve decided deciduous trees are better – at least with them you can mow over the leaves, creating instant mulch.
My hope is that I get the cones picked up before the pollen pods begin their production of pollen that colors my world yellow and is followed by the dropping of those little red pollen pods.
At least there is consistency.
I Love the shots of the Rufous! Your patience has paid off. That burst mode is cool. I’ll have to see if my camera has it.
I see the notify box you are talking about. I thought it was to let you know if someone replied to your reply- as in if you reply to my comment, I will be notified so I can read your response. I guess you can always uncheck it if you don’t wish that to happen.
If that’s what it did, I would not be unhappy, and yes, I can check it so I don’t get an email every time someone comments on that post – if I can remember to do that!
Yay, you got him!
Those pine cones are a full time job! I haven’t gotten to mine this week, but I’ve got to get them before I mow…putting it off as long as I can.
I put it off, until I could no longer because I need to mow!
So glad you caught him, and those photos were well worth the wait! Thanks for sharing, Carol.
Girl, you were waaaaaaaaaay more than ready — this is amazing!
Excellently done, be prepared you certainly were.
If you go into Dashboard – Discussions – Comments,- you can un click one of the options (Notify me of follow up comments) and apparently this stops WP’s default tick in comment box.
I’m not finding any option in my dashboard to prevent receiving email notices when someone comments on someone else’s blog after I have commented on that blog, but I will keep looking.
Thank you!
Carol
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Carol – Go to DASHBOARD, then scroll all the way down and on the left side you’ll see SETTINGS. Click on that. Within setting you’ll find DISCUSSION. In the “email” section, UNcheck anything you don’t want to receive an email about. (I only figured this out today – it’s been a pain in the wazoolie)…..
Settings first Carol…
Forgot,, Settings first…Carol good luck..
Okay but don’t those settings apply to MY blog rather than, say, your blog? Am I being particularly dense here?
Good job on getting so many shots of the little hummingbird, Carol … not an easy feat. It does look like your patience paid off though.
Those are great pictures!
And if you are a grumpy lade about those comments, so am I. This is definitely a new thing WP is doing, and it makes me say unkind things. (But, I am glad that you harped on it in this blog – now I’ll remember to uncheck!)
Carol – When I UN-checked “email me every single bloomin’ time someone comments” (or something along those lines), I’m now only receiving emails from the blogs I want to see all the comments on. And it’s making my email inbox oh-so-much nicer.
I’m with you Carol – I want to receive emails when someone I follow posts but not every blooming time someone else makes a comment on their blog! The Dashboard/Settings/Discussion does not seem to have anything to address this. The ‘email me whenever’ section seems to apply to our own blog. I’ve been ignoring this dump into my mailbox – just doing mass delete – and expecting WordPress to fix this …. I figured it must be their doing since it just suddenly started. I’m going to go check the forum …
I know this is somewhere because I had to deal with this setting when I first started my blog. I just spent 15 minutes trying to find it again. I don’t know where it is now but I think it is possible to fix your problem.
I can control whether or not I get emails when someone comments on my blog – and I do definitely want those! My complaint was when I comment on someone else’s blog, suddenly I’m getting emails whenever someone else also comments on that blog, which makes the inbox fill up wayyyy too fast. I think WordPress has done something to make it a default to receive those comments (if you’ll note when you comment on my posts, the little “Notfy me of follow-up comments via email” box is checked, so you’ll receive an email every time someone else comments on my post) so the control is in remembering to uncheck that when I post on a blog. Like now. Today I managed to do that on every one, except the very last one.Go figure!
PS. Nice photos
PS – thank you!
Little Mr. Rufous Hummer is gorgeous! Did you have your camera on a silent mode, so he wasn’t startled by the clicking sound?
I’ve just unchecked the box below where I’m adding this comment, as you make a very good point, your inbox becomes filled with every single future comment made, on every single blog you comment on, after you comment! Now, I’ll just have to remember to check back here, to see if you have replied to ME! Lol.
Now that you’ve asked that, I think my camera doesn’t make any noise. I may have set it that way but I no longer recall.
I’m looking at cameras at the moment Carol (I’m about to update mine) and have learned that some have a setting which can be used to silence the camera. Maybe you have that setting. The birds you take photos of seem quite happy about it.
I can’t wait to be able to sit for (seemingly) hours with camera in hand to catch these little beauties. And yes! I think WordPress decided to default everyone to receive every comment ever written. So annoying. I’m hoping it’s just a glitch and their inbox is flooded with complaints. Guess I’m a grouchy too!