We have hummingbirds around here... they are incredibly cool to watch in action.
Hummingbirds are beautiful in everything they do. Another reason I believe in a Creator.
They have good memories also.
Every spring around mid-April I will see them just hovering, staring at the hooks I hang my feeders from.
My college grad CPA is bugophobic. The sight of a wasp or other bugs causes her to freak out to the point of almost hurting herself to get away. Last spring she came running in the house screaming, “ OMG, there is a HUGE wasp on the front porch”. So I went to investigate. It was a hummingbird buzzing her for getting too close to the feeder!!!
College kids, oh brother....
I’m watching 4 fight over my feeder right now. It seems like the females outnumber the male’s about 5 to 1.
I’m on the west side in the Cascade foothills in Washington St. close to I 90. The’re like little jet fighters that can stop on a dime and even fly backwards on the same dime.
The perfection and beauty of hummingbirds seems almost of another world.
Beautiful birds. Very curious (they actually seem “friendly” and territorial.
It sounds cray cray, but there’s a theory going on about hummingbirds:
Because so many people feed hummingbirds in the southern part of the US, some hummingbirds are no longer making the migratory trip to Mexico or Central America, but are instead hanging out by the feeders and making them the end point of their journey.
Other hummingbirds continue to make the long migration just as their ancestors did, though.
These groups, it is theorized, with someday break into 2 distinct subspecies, or something.
Thoughts? I am ign’ant on the issue.
I remember one year, at a house we lived at years ago, where we had many hummers hitting the feeders. You could sit out on the deck drinking a beer, and watch them fight over the feeder.
It was like watching aerial combat I image. Little fighter jets jinkin and turning And attacking. Aggressive little guys.