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29 August 2006

yesterday with nature. I saw 2 hummingbirds zipping in & around our trumpet vines. They were green, and made me smile.→[More:]I told a friend about it over a beer later, and he said he was walking to work and felt this buzzing things in his hair. He thought it was a big bug, but when he pulled it out it was a freaking hummingbird. He has the best stories.

post by: chewatadistance at: 20:14 | 13 comments

Heh. Yesterday I was watering my plants and I was standing directly underneath my hummingbird feeder, which was a few inches over my head. (I've got a family of 3, and they empty the thing within a matter of days.)

The male came down and eyed me a bit from about 3 feet away, then zipped off. A few seconds later, he landed on my head.

Hummingbirds are actually really curious creatures, and they're not really afraid of us.

posted by mudpuppie 29 August | 20:18

Yeah, tonight I sat down near my butterfly bushes and a couple were flying around feeding on the bushes and other various plants. They buzzed me a time or two, trying to figure out what I was.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 29 August | 20:34

I have never seen a hummingbird.

posted by gaspode 29 August | 21:20

No fucking way, gaspode!

posted by mudpuppie 29 August | 21:25

I have a pair of territorial fighting males at my house I think. I had friends visiting from Brooklyn with their three year old and it was cool to get to show her a pair of hummingbirds.

posted by jessamyn 29 August | 21:32

oh so way, pupster!

I'm pretty sure we don't have them in NZ, and I've only lived in downtown B'more and Manhattan in the States...

posted by gaspode 29 August | 21:32

I have also never seen a hummingbird. But that's hardly surprising, because I don't think I've ever been to a country that has them.

posted by dg 29 August | 21:37

Wow, I'm surprised that there aren't any hummingbirds down there.

Y'all can come to my house.

posted by mudpuppie 29 August | 21:45

A hummingbird once hovered for a moment inches from my face at an exhibit at the Indianapolis zoo, where I was skippin' out on yet another temp job. I just went right on by my work exit and kept on drivin', from Cinci to Indianapolis. Quite a nice day. (My husband at time was not pleased, however.) I ate lunch at the war memorial statue at the center of town, surrounded by office workers in white shirts and pumps.

posted by Pips 29 August | 22:11

We have them at our feeder, here in Houston. They are small and metallic green, and very fast.

posted by sarah connor 29 August | 22:13

I saw my first hummingbirds last summer, when we stopped at a restaurant in Pennsylvania. They had a beautiful garden with a huge pond, some swallow nests and a couple of hummingbird feeders. I was thrilled to see them, even from a distance.

posted by essexjan 30 August | 02:05

We put a feeder on the porch after one put his little beak in the back of the vacuum cleaner... so cute :) Here's a cool hummingbird nest link my daughter sent out... it looks kind of like a regular nest until the last page.

posted by auntbunny 30 August | 07:13

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This little lady was at one of my three feeders in my yard. It gets so crowded, with about 6 or seven of them all chasing each other around. I was filling one of my feeders when they came right up to me. They were less than an arms length away, and even chased each other around right around me. I could have stayed all day, hoping one would land on me.
This is a female ruby-throated hummingbird, by the way, the only variety on the East Coast.

posted by redvixen 30 August | 20:16

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