If you’re thinking about pruning a tree at this time of year in southern California (and a lot of other warm locations), please look closely for bird activity first. It’d be really easy to send this family of Anna’s hummingbirds tumbling to the ground and I suspect most of us can agree that’d be incredibly sad.
Here’s a female Anna’s hummingbird near her nest site in our largest tree, a Peruvian pepper that came with the house. She built it with twigs, spider webs and bits of lichen from our fence which add a bit of much-needed camouflage.
She’s foraging in bladderpod I planted.
Why is a Cooper’s hawk a hummingbird's best friend?: https://www.science.org/content/article/why-hawk-hummingbird-s-best-friend