Tag Archives: hummingbirds

It’s a dangerous world outside our front door…

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Kathy

We’re living in dangerous times, my friends. It’s getting quite scary to open the front door. We have eight–I repeat, eight–ruby-throated hummingbirds buzzing and squawking and hollering and dive-bombing anything that walks, flies or carries a camera.

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I dreamed of pink hummingbirds in snow

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Kathy

I awoke this morning after dreaming of pink hummingbirds in snow outside our deck window–dozens upon dozens of them flitting in tropical beauty against our windowpane.  The snow fell softly between their swiftly beating wings. The impossibility of it took … Continue reading →

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Hummingbird status

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Kathy

Just wanted to tell you first thing this morning.  Hummingbirds have been spotted in both Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas.  My mom put up the feeder down in Yale on Friday.  She offered a “signficant” prize for the person who … Continue reading →

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Hummingbird don’t fly away, fly away…

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Kathy

You can’t see them.  You can’t hear them.  Yet a million tiny wings beat in the clouds and sky, veering south, aimed toward Florida and Mexico and the Caribbean at this time of year.  They left late this year.  The females … Continue reading →

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