Thursday, May 17, 2007
More Hummers Than Ever
I have never seen anything like this, perhaps at least 50 humminbirds fighting over my feeders now. It feels like the Alfred Hitchcock movie 'The Birds.' They roost in a tall bush next to the house, sometimes six on a single twig! There is no way to count them other than to look at the bush and then the feeder and make a guess. They have a distinctive yee-hee-hee-hee language that when dozens do it all at once can be quite disorienting. I'm putting out at least a pint of sugar water every morning now, sometimes to a very demanding client! It's a good thing I change the feeder everyday because old sugar left in the bottle can ferment and turn into alcohol - can you imagine that many drunk hummers? Fortunately, none have decided to move in the house yet.
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Hey Sam, What color is your house? Maybe all those hummers think it is one gigantic flower! I am soooo jealous! If I get one or two hummers all summer I'm tickled pink!
P.S. I just love the "word verification" letters that come up now and again. These are the ones for this comment. LUZFGET. uh, being and old Navy dude, it suggests unpure thoughts too me!!
Many headed on their way up north this morning, although a dozen stragglers are still in the area. I tried to tell them to head up to Block Island and they giggled and said LUZFGET ... and then demanded more dang sugar water!
The noive, the sheer noive, I tell ya.
I thought you meant Hummers, as in those big, stupid military-type vehicles that people in the wealthy suburbs (at least up north here) seem to think are cool to drive but which embarass me. Thank heavens you meant hummingbirds. We're happy if we get two at a time at our feeder. Are they all one species?
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