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A Birds Eye View
Hummingbird: I tawt I taw a puddy tat! I did! I did taw a puddy tat!
Persia was lounging on the back of the couch by the picture window. A hummingbird feeder hangs right outside. One came along to get a drink and spotted Persia sitting there. It flew over to the window and hovered, getting a close-up look at her! LOL Persia had plenty of opportunity to chatter at it in response. Jill |
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My cats don't pay any attention to the hummingbirds. I have two window
feeders and one of them almost always has at least one hummer drinking (sometimes four). Tiger couldn't care less. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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---MIKE--- wrote:
My cats don't pay any attention to the hummingbirds. I have two window feeders and one of them almost always has at least one hummer drinking (sometimes four). Tiger couldn't care less. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') Around here 2 hummers will have an aerial battle befitting WWI Sopwith Camel fighter pilots before they'll give over access to the feeder at the same time. Such a battle took place just before the victor assumed his/her rightful place and taunted Persia. She slept through the battle but Mom and I got to watch the entire thing. They're viscious, territorial little birds. Jill |
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That is strange. "My" hummers never seem to fight. Even when all four
ports are occupied, some hummers will just wait their turn. The big feeder is so busy that it has to be refilled every other day - and that's a 48 ounce Perky Pet. For some reason, the 12 ounce feeder - about ten feet away is not so busy. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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"jmcquown" wrote in message . .. ---MIKE--- wrote: My cats don't pay any attention to the hummingbirds. I have two window feeders and one of them almost always has at least one hummer drinking (sometimes four). Tiger couldn't care less. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') Around here 2 hummers will have an aerial battle befitting WWI Sopwith Camel fighter pilots before they'll give over access to the feeder at the same time. Such a battle took place just before the victor assumed his/her rightful place and taunted Persia. She slept through the battle but Mom and I got to watch the entire thing. They're viscious, territorial little birds. Jill They're little badasses. Sometimes you can't stick your head out a window here in the summer, or a mockingbird or a blue jay will divebomb your head. But the ones that really freak me out are the swallows and swifts. So small, so pretty-- and incredible aerial battles, sometimes to the death. One summer in England, we were eating lunch in the garden, and a swift dropped out of the sky at my feet-- dead. -- Theresa, Stinky and Dante drtmuirATearthlink.net Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh |
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On Jul 6, 9:05*am, "Kreisleriana" wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message . .. ---MIKE--- wrote: My cats don't pay any attention to the hummingbirds. *I have two window feeders and one of them almost always has at least one hummer drinking (sometimes four). *Tiger couldn't care less. * * * * * * * * * ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire * (44° 15' *N - Elevation 1580') Around here 2 hummers will have an aerial battle befitting WWI Sopwith Camel fighter pilots before they'll give over access to the feeder at the same time. *Such a battle took place just before the victor assumed his/her rightful place and taunted Persia. *She slept through the battle but Mom and I got to watch the entire thing. *They're viscious, territorial little birds. Jill They're little badasses. *Sometimes you can't stick your head out a window here in the summer, or a mockingbird or a blue jay will divebomb your head. But the ones that really freak me out are the swallows and swifts. *So small, so pretty-- *and incredible aerial battles, sometimes to the death. One summer in England, we were eating lunch in the garden, and a swift dropped out of the sky at my feet-- dead. -- Theresa, Stinky and Dante drtmuirATearthlink.net I didn't know that about swallows. One built a nest under the eve of the house, which I worried about Frank 'n Boots getting the babies when they're learning to fly. Those swallows have tormented the two mighty hunters until they won't even go on that corner of the house at all. They mean business. Sherry |
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On Jul 6, 10:05 am, "Kreisleriana" wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message . .. ---MIKE--- wrote: My cats don't pay any attention to the hummingbirds. I have two window feeders and one of them almost always has at least one hummer drinking (sometimes four). Tiger couldn't care less. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') Around here 2 hummers will have an aerial battle befitting WWI Sopwith Camel fighter pilots before they'll give over access to the feeder at the same time. Such a battle took place just before the victor assumed his/her rightful place and taunted Persia. She slept through the battle but Mom and I got to watch the entire thing. They're viscious, territorial little birds. Jill They're little badasses. Sometimes you can't stick your head out a window here in the summer, or a mockingbird or a blue jay will divebomb your head. But the ones that really freak me out are the swallows and swifts. So small, so pretty-- and incredible aerial battles, sometimes to the death.. One summer in England, we were eating lunch in the garden, and a swift dropped out of the sky at my feet-- dead. There was a red-tailed hawk (one of the soarting mouse-hunters, somewhat big) on a pole in the back yard where I work. Some nesting songbirds didn't like her around and swarmed her until she flew off. She spent the next few hours soaring, as is proper, instead of watching for mice from the top of a pole. That'l teach HER to be so lazy. She eventually dropped on something in the next field and I guess it was lunch. -- Will in New Haven |
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On Jul 5, 6:28 pm, (---MIKE---) wrote:
My cats don't pay any attention to the hummingbirds. I have two window feeders and one of them almost always has at least one hummer drinking (sometimes four). Tiger couldn't care less. 'Why bother,' he's probably thinking, 'I could never catch one.' Just as the wolves in Yellowstone are said not to notice pronghorns very often, because they are too fast. -- Will in New Haven |
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Kreisleriana wrote:
They're little badasses. Sometimes you can't stick your head out a window here in the summer, or a mockingbird or a blue jay will divebomb your head. But the ones that really freak me out are the swallows and swifts. So small, so pretty-- and incredible aerial battles, sometimes to the death. One summer in England, we were eating lunch in the garden, and a swift dropped out of the sky at my feet-- dead. Swallows are fierce. I can see for my mind's eye Frank ambling along across the cliffs on the island, when suddenly a swallow dives at him. Frank's expression was hilarious - 'What did *I* do???' - as he ducked out of the way. Of course, then there was the swallow's nest under the jetty that Caliban tried to reach... At least we know now that he knows how to swim. -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. |
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Will in New Haven wrote:
There was a red-tailed hawk (one of the soarting mouse-hunters, somewhat big) on a pole in the back yard where I work. Some nesting songbirds didn't like her around and swarmed her until she flew off. She spent the next few hours soaring, as is proper, instead of watching for mice from the top of a pole. That'l teach HER to be so lazy. She eventually dropped on something in the next field and I guess it was lunch. The sea eagles in our archipelago fly so high that you can barely see them, but what makes you notice them is the flocks of gulls and crows following them, making a terrible racket. -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. |
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