A nice leasurely stroll through Buskett Gardens. Not many birds in this sequence, but that’s not the point. The point is that there are no gunshots and no hunters giving us grief. One day, most of Malta may be as tranquill and as idyllic as this. As more and more birdwatchers go to Malta during the spring and autumn migration those days will come sooner rather than later.

Osoyoos area in South Central BC has the only desert region of Canada and that’s where we found these beautiful yellow birds. When we got home from our trip we Googled ‘Birds’ and found out what kind they were. In all my years I never appreciated the variety of colorful song birds that can be seen around us, they were just ‘birds.’

I placed a Bluetooth wireless mike in the lilac bush and from 2 — 3 feet away I got this video of these incredible little hummingbirds.