Yesterday morning, while out on a bird walk with the local Birding Group, my friend Truman called to tell me that the Rufous Hummingbird, a photo of which he’d shared with me the day before, was visiting his backyard feeders. Most of the few birds we’d seen so far that morning were far away and even viewed through the spotting scope they were microdots. I excused myself from the group and drove to Truman’s house just a couple of miles away. Within the first ten minutes of arriving I’d photographed Western Bluebirds, White-crowned Sparrows, Lesser Goldfinches, Black Phoebes, Anna’s Hummingbirds, and Bewick’s Wrens. And, as if on schedule, not one, but two adult male Rufous Hummingbirds made their presence known, bullying the Anna’s Hummingbirds and claiming dominance over the feeders. One watched from a high perch near the feeders and one watched from a lower perch in a nearby Olive Tree. All in all, it was a great morning for birding.