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June 2, 2008

Hummingbirds

Each year I put out a hummingbird feeder or two, and I always get a small number of the birds in residence as a result.

This year is radically different. This year I have huge numbers of them. Enough that they will drink the feeder dry within hours. They hover around it, they argue over it, and they take advantage of any opportunity to drink from it.

Yesterday I filled it, and then just stood with it in my hand and they were actually drinking from it as I held it. Simply amazing.

Equally amazing is the fact that I have another feeder twenty feet or less from the popular one. It gets virtually no use at all.

Funny, yet amazing little creatures.

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