A New Trail Found...

More than once I've noticed several cars [not at the same time] parked in an area of Bazemore Park where the Nueces river is...I walk this park many times a month....anyway, I saw the other day that there were no cars there, so, I ventured up the hill and found a marble plaque saying that there is a nature trail in the vicinity. I found the opening to the trailhead and started climbing. Several smaller trails veered off the main trail...tho, I was quite leary of taking any of them since the grasses were high and a lot of this growth was on the trails themselves...we have ticks in the area this time of year - and naturally, found in uncut grass. I stayed on the main trail!!! Boy oh boy was that ever a work out!! A small incline all the way up, and steps galore. One step in particular I nearly had to get on my knees and hoist myself up to continue on the path...

I was there at the park in search of a rare Calliope Hummingbird reported seen near the Hawkwatch Platform. I'll get to that after I share some more of the 'new' hiking trail in photos...

Well, as far as I know I didn't see the rare hummingbird. I really can't say. Why? 'Cause while I was at the hawkwatch platform [where all the hummingbird feeders are - 8 of them], I saw, literally dozens if not hundreds of hummingbirds!!! It was early in the morning, when hummingbirds are active, feeding. And I just couldn't keep track of ALL the feeders at once. They were at the nectar stations by the dozens, they were flying around my head, whizzing by so quickly...they were even zipping in among the tree canopies galore!! Naturally, I took several photos. But, I was anxious to get on the park road and walk. I'll share just one photo of a single ruby-throated hummer that I took in my photos app on the laptop and added rainfall effect. I don't know it the video will work tho, 'cause I'm loading it here directly from my computer instead of youtube - in case of not running correctly, I'll add the original 'still life' image first...

addendum: It didn't work properly when I published and tested the short effect video, so youtube it is. It'll probably take longer to load than play - it's only 5 seconds of rain coming down...