[EBB Sightings] eagle-schmeagle, dickey birds are cool, too!

debbie viess wrote:
> Yesterday at Huckleberry Preserve, I was walking along the overgrown
> upper trail when I heard a hummer buzz above my head. I paused, and
> it (a female Anna's) dropped to stare me in the face. I stared back.
> It then flew a short distance and perched, still looking at me, but
> without alarm....
> 
> I suspect that some of this bold behavior is due to the hormonal
> surges of spring, or gosh, maybe they just LIKE me? Nah...that can't
> be it.

What a wonderful experience - and a grand story!

On the spot, I suspect, I couldn't have helped thinking about one of my 
favorite lines about hummers: if they were even the size of pigeons, it 
wouldn't be safe to leave the house! That much beak with that much 
aggressiveness behind it would be a serious threat. But I'd still have 
been charmed out of my gourd.

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