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Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

sipping the nectar-like solution from our feeder, that you can see through our living room window. I was sitting by the door in my wheelchair waiting for a hummingbird to go to the feeder, when all of a sudden one of them flew one-foot from the door and hovered there for 15 seconds, staring at me the whole time. It was an interspecies communication!! Was it thanking me for the false-nectar? I want to think so, but I doubt it. I did smile at the bird and thanked her for visiting me. Damn, I love hummingbirds!

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-throated_Hummingbird

 

An Autumn Hokku

 

Early fall morning;

A hummingbird stares at me...

Hovering close by!

 

To me, and many others who go by the Natural Calendar, Autumn began on August 1st. The equinox is mid-autumn, and fall ends on Oct. 31st, Halloween.

edleathers4.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-wheel-of-year.html

 

 

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Uploaded on August 13, 2023
Taken on August 10, 2023