It's still your castle.  I haven't put up a hummingbird feeder (so far) because it also attracts wasps, but I've seen hummingbirds in the park while trying to photograph other birds, like warblers.  Suddenly a hummer will swoosh by my head and I'll think, oh ya ... hummers!  Then immediately return to concentrating on those elusive warblers which require my full attention in order to manage a half *ass result.  Do you think someone that lives in the densest jungle with a complete canopy overhead, at all times, ever really gets to see the sun, or the stars at night?  That gets me thinking of a story about a boy that lives in the deepest darkest jungle and escapes into open Savannah, seeing the open sky and full sun for the first time, then travelling all day to reach the ocean and seeing a horizon for the first time and then when the sun sets, seeing the Milky Way for the first time.  Now, what music would be the soundtrack of that film?  Please send  your submissions for a chance to win ... I don't know ... I'll think of something.

Sounds like serendipity.  An unexpected, accidental close encounter that also keeps flies at bay.  Sun room?  On a deck chair ... eight feet away?  How posh!  Maybe you should invite Charline to make a video tour of your estate.  Any shorebirds on your beach?  I should really go out looking for some.  Just came back from a walk around the neighbourhood and absolutely no one threw anything at me this time.  I heard a wood thrush in the woodlot.  I should return again early tomorrow morning and listen again and if I hear it ... engage.  Sorry, my mind is wandering again .. sun room?  Is that like a greenhouse?  Excuse my ignorance.  It's just that there must be so much glass ... that needs to be cleaned ... frequently. The geek in me thinks of it as a low-ISO-room.  That's a good thing, right? 

 Batteries are everywhere: cellphones, hearing aids, pacemakers, sex toys, but they are seldom included, unless you buy a camera.  My first digital camera was a point-and-shoot and came with one battery.  Buying a second battery was expensive and only came in black, like a Ford Model-T.  I expected more choice.  I started carrying a second battery in the field in case the one in the camera was low on juice, as occasionally happened when I failed to charge it, or worse still when I left it at home in the charger.  My spare was always in a small zip-lock bag in the pocket of my camo jacket and I only removed it when I washed the jacket, or when I tossed it into the dryer after every outing to de-tick it.  Once, I failed to remove it from the dedicated pocket and tossed the jacket into the dryer ... cunk, cunk, cunk ... oops! I quickly retrieved it.  That was close.  Leaving a battery in a dryer set on “high” is not smart, just like watching “The World According to Cunk” can leave you a little bewildered.  I suppose that the noise could have been more like ... dumb, dumb, dumb, but that might have been drowned-out by the noise in my head.
 
 
 My current DSLR has two batteries and I never once tried to torture the spare.  A bird photographer I met in the field was complaining that his Canon R5 Mk II would go through so many batteries that he had to get one of those belts that normally carry shotgun shells and fill it with spare batteries, each costing $125.00.  I don’t know what colour his batteries were.  I am tactless at the best of times and told him that anyone that can afford an R5 Mk II can afford a magazine full of spare batteries.  He really didn’t want to hear that appraisal.  He was bigger than me and younger than me but I could run faster because I wasn’t burdened by the weight of all those batteries. 
 
 
 I believe that he was considering a clip-on battery pack which has a much greater reserve capacity.  I don’t even want to know what one of those things cost. That got me thinking about all power-hungry mirrorless cameras. Sure, they may manage hundreds of frames per charge, but when one is shooting at 20 – 40 frames/second it doesn’t take long to reach their designated limit.  The electronic viewfinder is bright and power hungry.  No wonder this birder needed so many batteries.  I suppose one could reduce the burst rate and save power, but does anyone with a $5,000 camera really do that?  Does a full-frame mirrorless camera use more power than a cropped-frame mirrorless camera?  Does anyone on this forum who owns a mirrorless camera have a battery drain problem?  Does switching to a high-burst-rate mirrorless camera mean getting a part-time job?  Does wearing a battery bandolier make one look pretentious?  How many questions am I allowed to ask? 
 
 

Humming bird at seed feeder
Added video, Not great due to lighting. Wait till end of 10 second clip
https://youtu.be/vE9jvHZY-t4

 <sup>A quick reference to ebird is a great way to assess the liveliness of a site measured over the past few days and since some posts are actually made during those crepuscular intervals before dawn, because you can’t tie an avid birder down, it may prognosticate the level of excitement for the day yet to unfold.  While ebird might occasionally embellish its report with photographs, it is really more about counting birds, something quaintly called ‘citizen science’  so that the real ornithologists can get a better grasp of the health of  species’ populations.
 
 How accurate is this system?  A report of three Wood thrushes at a given site strikes me as fanciful.  Did the birder actually see three such birds, or was it a case of seeing the same thrush three times.  In one case, at Thickson Woods I believe, the report stated quite explicitly that a Wood thrush was heard while in the act of observing one, so that there must be at least two, but I have only once encountered such a fine attention to detail. 
 
 Then there is Merlin.  An app to identify a species by receiving its audio signature.  While not always accurate, this tool is now widely used, although not by me because I neither have a cellphone (and therefore I am app-free) but also because I don’t consider hearing a species as synonymous with seeing a species.  True, it could alert one to its presence ... somewhere nearby, a heads-up if you will.  That could be useful, but I do that anyway with my ears, of which I have two for better balance.  Also, if the bird is in the canopy, or 100 meters across the woods, or on private property, then I cannot photograph it and therefore it might as well be away on-tour.  I have no interest in counting birds.  That numerical protocol does not get me up early in the morning.  Having to pee works every time.

 So, my gripe, and I do have one, for I am a lesser shortsighted camo-bellied griper is that an audio pick-up does not constitute a visual sighting and cannot be used to asses #’s of birds.  Before Merlin became as widespread as peanut butter a sighting was a sighting and am auditory clue was designated as the letter (h) after the species name, or after the number of ID pick-ups so registered.  Now, that is no longer a quotidian practice because Merlin has equated audio with visual but to me never the twain should meet.  I don’t imagine many will agree with me because that would imply that there is hope for this out-dated curmudgeon and the adoption of that notion could label one as a dangerous contrarian.</sup>