That Dave's picture looks like a pear to me. Somebody probably found some Callery pear seedlings growing as weeds and misidentified them as a native crabapple. Assuming the plants native to a particular area are all you will see growing wild there seems to be a common mistake.

Great pics patsi! I too have had minimal hummer activity. In the past, regardless of the racket the starlings made at the suet feeder, or the large number of goldfinches at my feeder and on the plants, I'm only seeing a hummer, once a week IF I'M LUCKY! I've only seen one male and one female. The last few years, I'd see at least one once a day. This year it's definitely killing me, not seeing them daily. I've had a robin nest in the forsynthia, which is only a few feet away from my feeder, and that never bothered my hummers. I haven't even seen a monarch butterfly yet! Overall, butterfly activity is alot less as well. Few cabbage whites, sparse Eastern Swallowtails, although I have seen a few Black Swallowtails that were kind enough to leave me a load of caterpillars, most of which have been eliminated, probably by wasps. I have already released 2 butterflies & have 5 more chrysalids & 2 more cats still feeding. At least the mosquito population is up (yes, sarcasm), but it's keeping the bats happy, which too, appear to have had their numbers dwindle too :(

Sweet! Another one to brag about with a friend. Thanks, Dax

12 lbs for the 2 of us, lots and lots of leftovers. dh insisted on trying publix family turkey dinner this time and it was blah... he was tired of spending all day cooking for just the 2 of us usually. not to mention, the last 2 times we did the turkey on the grill rotisserie and the turkeys were a bit too heavy at 12 lbs lol so it didn't work out well...too hard to find small birds. sooo now we will be going back to baking our turkey, MY WAY LOL. ~ liz