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Hummingbird love... Well, lust.

2007-06-04

Good morning Boys and Girls.

There's a nesting pair of hummingbirds just outside the front porch. Thanks to the suggestion of one of my good friends, a feeder now hangs off a frame at the edge of the far support post, and the two tiny birds come around frequently. In fact, I've been wondering whether their nest might not be situated in the large bush not ten feet from there. Anyway...

The female is brown with a bit of green on her back, while the male has similar coloring on most of his body, but his head is dark green with a white ring around his neck and a bit of bright red just below there. Between them, they put on quite a show. This morning, just now actually, I was sipping coffee out there and he, the male, did something kind of weird. Showing off for her? Perhaps.

He started doing these big "U's" in the air; flying up to about the height of the porch's roof and then zipping down to within inches of the ground, and then back up again to the same height maybe twenty feet out in front of the porch. Then, without stopping, he repeated the flight pattern a dozen or more times, all within twenty or twenty-five seconds, his wings beating so fast that it sounded like a slightly muffled version of a fresh spoke-flipped baseball card after we'd clothespin one to our bike frames; this assuming we were riding as fast as we possibly could.

A neat thing to watch.

So, I wonder if is one of his ways to make her tiny little heart go a-pitter-patter?

I mean, he is a male - and we're all kindred spirits - and I've read that we guys think of sex hundreds of times per day, so I'm pretty sure this much is true: I think he was putting the moves on her. I think this was all part of an elaborate plan to get his itsy-bitsy rocks off.

Hope they don't beat the hell out of each other with those propeller-speed wings while they go about their business.

For my part, I took a little radio out there and found them a little mood music.

Hope they appreciate the candles and incense.


Be good to everyone.

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Barnabus (2007-06-04)
When they finally get done with that thimble size nest, you might want to try and find it!! They don't use it again, and they are quite a collectors item!

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