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Really cool distraction from the current madness. Hummers really do rule!
1 posted on 08/24/2020 3:38:48 PM PDT by fwdude
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2 posted on 08/24/2020 3:45:07 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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I’m amazed!


3 posted on 08/24/2020 3:50:57 PM PDT by loucon (Quarintine by choice is freedom. Quarintine by mandate is ... well you know ... that thing ...)
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A Japanese photographer had a camera lens so fast, he could actually film women’s lips not moving. (this is where I run for cover)


4 posted on 08/24/2020 3:56:13 PM PDT by umgud
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Watching hummers at our feeder is one of my few pleasures in life.


5 posted on 08/24/2020 3:58:41 PM PDT by buckalfa (Feed Your Head ! Feed Your Head !)
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Really cool little birds, and they defend their nectar feeders and flower areas aggressively.

How the aviation engineers wish they could design an aircraft that could perform as hummingbirds do in flight, evasion, speed, braking, hovering and fantastic gyrations. Partly because no human (even in a G suit) could survive the G forces of these kinds of maneuvers. The physics of the stressors on hummingbirds in flight are phenomenal.

Sort of like— “if human beings could lift what an ant does” kind of analysis.

Marvelous little birds. Their annual migration back down to the Mexican Gulf Coast and further south, following the flowers (and sometimes they go straight across the Gulf— with so little reserves on board, a marvel. There are videos on oil derricks in mid ocean who put out feeders and they are swarmed— really helping the little guys make it).

Wife loves them because they eat a LOT of mosquitoes and bugs, beyond their nectar seeking.


6 posted on 08/24/2020 4:00:09 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Hmm. That went swimmingly.

7 posted on 08/24/2020 4:09:57 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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“Hummers really do rule!”

Bubba Clintoon agrees.


10 posted on 08/24/2020 4:23:21 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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Amazing


14 posted on 08/24/2020 4:40:02 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Ours often fly through the hose spray while I am out watering. Some repeatedly.


15 posted on 08/24/2020 4:40:15 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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At our hideout in Arizona, they land on our fingers held out next to their feeder.

Very cool little birds.


16 posted on 08/24/2020 4:47:40 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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We had about a gazillion hummers every summer when we lived in the mountains east of Pocatello, ID. Two years in a row there was a retired USAF vet who came around to trap them, take measurements, band them (really, really tiny bands), and release them. Some days we caught the same ones twice. They are SO tiny - absolute wonders of nature. We don’t have as many in north Idaho but we’ve got plenty!


17 posted on 08/24/2020 5:18:40 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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I’ve tried for years to attract hummingbirds to my home by putting out feeders and growing flowers they like. It wasn’t until this year they showed up. Now I’m seeing them everyday and enjoy it immensely. I never grow tired of watching them.


20 posted on 08/24/2020 6:18:16 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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Just Wow!


21 posted on 08/24/2020 6:47:10 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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whoa! that is nice.


24 posted on 08/24/2020 7:16:53 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins #150Kclub)
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bttt


25 posted on 08/24/2020 7:26:59 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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Welcome to Texas in the Summer.

The hummingbirds will fly through lawn irrigation as a bird bath.

When watering the leaves of my trumpet vines with a waterhose, I've had hummingbirds fly into my spray.

26 posted on 08/24/2020 7:54:08 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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Amazing carbohydrate burning machines.


28 posted on 08/24/2020 8:12:13 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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Amazing!


31 posted on 08/24/2020 9:09:27 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.)
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