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It's a known fact humming birds are the racists of the bird world. =)

They make this high-pitched squeal/screech when they attack, too. When I was in HS, living at my dad's house, I had a basketball hoop in the driveway. I was out playing one day and the ball rolled into the yard by the humming bird feeder. As I bent over to pick up the ball, I heard EEEEEEEE!, along with that harsh buzzing noise their wings make, shoot over my head.

As I stood up and looked around, I spotted the little guy hovering about 8' up. He made the screech again and darted back and forth. I got the ball and got the hell out of there. I'm sure he couldn't seriously injure me, short of taking an eye out, but who wants to be poked full of little holes?

>> ^rychan:

"...her agency has created by not worrying that they might fail."
Well, that is completely contrary to what I know about defense research funding.


That is why DARPA exists.

I was most curious about the gecko-like sticky pad. Too bad I got no questions about that. I also liked the image of the internet. I would love to work there as I have some unique insights and stuff I'd like to try.

the world needs more humming birds !

hey wouldn't they do the same thing bees do? I mean pollinate . YAY HUMMINGBIRDS.

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Humming Bird

by D.H. Lawrence


I can imagine, in some otherworld
Primeval-dumb, far back
In that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed,
Humming-birds raced down the avenues.

Before anything had a soul,
While life was a heave of Matter, half inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems.

I believe there were no flowers, then,
In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of creation.
I believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak.

Probably he was big
As mosses, and little lizards, they say were once big.
Probably he was a jabbing, terrifying monster.
We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of Time,
Luckily for us.

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>> ^volumptuous:
A hummingbird flew into my house two weeks ago and couldn't find his way back out.
I cornered him in a windowsill and he landed and stopped trying to fly. He was completely still and let me pick him up in my hands. I brought him outside, set him on the ground, and he flew away.
The whole time I was thinking to myself: " HOLYSHIT IM HOLDING A HUMMINGBIRD!!"

(and yes, in my world all hummingbirds are male for some unknown reason)



I had the same experience with a Cardinal. The little guy (I know it was male in this case) woke me up from a nap flapping against my window. He looked so terrified as I was carrying him through the apartment, but flew off just fine.

I put up a humming bird feeder in my years 3 years ago, and they're still not used to me. I see them feeding from it through the window, but if I'm outside, they won't go near it.

>> ^rougy:
Sorry to hear that, BT.
I don't mind the singing birds in the morning, but the "Caw! Caw!" types drive me nuts.
Around here we have doves that sound like "koo-koo-cachoo" just before sunrise.


I think you might have a Bill Cosby in your garden.