On Sun, 9 May 2010 09:56:19 EDT, Galen Hekhuis
wrote:

So I've pretty much moved to the shed at the back pond. Now the
"shed" has sliding glass doors and an air conditioner and a few other
things that make it a kind of a "luxury shed." One day I'm parked in
front of one of the doors staring out at the pond through a pair of
binoculars looking at turtle heads poking up through the duckweed when
this blur appears out of focus in the binoculars. I put them down and
there is this hummingbird not a foot away staring at me. It wasn't
just a one time thing either, the hummingbird have been coming around
for about two weeks now, first hovering and looking in through one
door, then flying around to look in the other. It's a pair of
ruby-throated hummingbirds, the female coming by much more frequently
than the male.
.
To them, you're a fish in a glass aquarium. ;-)

Btw, I had some nice duck weed growing in my small living room pond. I
ordered 3 Tropical lilies and got them potted after I put the taro out. The
pads were getting aphids that over wintered with the taro, so I did what I
had heard worked, but never recommended if done where the sun hit. Inside
no worries there, I sprayed the pads and duck weed with Pam (cooking oil).
The pads did fine, the duckweed... every bit of it died. The aphids? If the
Pam didn't do them in, they've starved to death. ~ jan
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Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us