Monday, August 29, 2011

The Mantis Menace

Yes, that's a praying mantis on the hummingbird feeder. I happened to look out my kitchen window to see this huge guy on the feeder. Soon I observed the hummingbirds dive bombing him to try to get him to fly away. However, he was determined to stay and actually did stay on the feeder for 3-4 hours. Finally, after fighting numerous wars with no winner, he flew away in hopes of finding easier prey.

PS: Something has happened to my blog site and I am not able to manipulate my pictures nor am I able to comment under each one. I'm going to have to work on this and call my IT expert, Erin. Hopefully by my next blog, things will be worked out.

































2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry I wasn't there to see that from my favorite chair. Made me think of my Dad, he was always finding a praying mantis and bringing it in for us to put in a jar and feed bugs. Interesting. "O"

Mark and Lori said...

Wow! Awesome pictures of the hummingbirds!! Darn mantis! I'm glad he didn't completely scare away the birds! They are such a pleasantry!