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...my first hummer of the season appeared yesterday..in my living room, ..a beautiful male who, I'm assuming, had come to check out the blooms on the geraniums I was hardening off on the doorstep.
.. the door was left open and I found him way up in the peak of the prow in our living room... too high to reach I went for a long dip net and as slowly, carefully and un-threateningly as possible, began the attempt to reach him,.. he was panicked and obviously tiring.
Not sure how long he'd been inside, I found him when I returned from weeding my strawberry patch,
The edge of the net was bulky for such a delicate job...after a few patient attempts, for what ever reason he slid his beak into a crevice at the very joint of the beam that crosses the ceiling and just hung there by his beak...poor thing,..so tired, but it enabled me to place the edge of the net in front of his tiny body gently wiggling his beak safely back,...then out to the open air and freedom.
..he must've been exhausted as it was a full half hour before he left the shady spot beside me on the ground and sat, obviously unthreatened, to the branch just a few feet from my face, he rested a little longer then went a few feet at a time between rests till he disappeared into the forest to the north of the house....
jan foley
head of jeddore
Eleanor Lindsay <az678@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
This morning I watched hummingbird behaviour I have never seen before:
It seemed to be having a spat with a chickadee in a tree overhanging my
deck, flying at it, chattering furiously and zig-zagging back and forth
in front of it and very close to it. Every time the chickadee moved the
hummer followed it and resumed its zig-zag behaviour. The chickadee
finally flew off, hotly pursued by the chattering hummingbird.
What would this be all about?
Eleanor Lindsay
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<BLOCKQUOTE id=5c957897> <DIV>...my first hummer of the season appeared yesterday<EM>..in my living room,</EM> ..a beautiful male who, I'm assuming, had come to check out the blooms on the geraniums I was hardening off on the doorstep.</DIV> <DIV>.. the door was left open and I found him way up in the peak of the prow in our living room... too high to reach I went for a long dip net and as slowly, carefully and <EM>un-</EM>threateningly as possible, began the attempt to reach him,.. he was panicked and obviously tiring. </DIV> <DIV>Not sure how long he'd been inside, I found him when I returned from weeding my strawberry patch, </DIV> <DIV>The edge of the net was bulky for such a delicate job...after a few patient attempts, for what ever reason he slid his beak into a crevice at the very joint of the beam that crosses the ceiling and just hung there by his beak...poor thing,..so tired, but it
enabled me to place the edge of the net in front of his tiny body gently wiggling his beak safely back,...then out to the open air and freedom.</DIV> <DIV>..he must've been exhausted as it was a full half hour before he left the shady spot beside me on the ground and sat, obviously unthreatened, to the branch just a few feet from my face, he rested a little longer then went a few feet at a time between rests till he disappeared into the forest to the north of the house....</DIV> <DIV>jan foley</DIV> <DIV>head of jeddore </DIV> <DIV><BR><B><I>Eleanor Lindsay <az678@chebucto.ns.ca></I></B> wrote: </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">This morning I watched hummingbird behaviour I have never seen before:<BR>It seemed to be having a spat with a chickadee in a tree overhanging my <BR>deck, flying at it, chattering furiously and zig-zagging back and forth <BR>in front
of it and very close to it. Every time the chickadee moved the <BR>hummer followed it and resumed its zig-zag behaviour. The chickadee <BR>finally flew off, hotly pursued by the chattering hummingbird.<BR>What would this be all about?<BR>Eleanor Lindsay<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p> 
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