This lady lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard. She took the little red dish, filled it with sugar water and this is the result.
The Woman is Abagail Alfano of Pine, Louisiana - she has been studying them daily and one morning put the cup from the feeder, with water in it, in her hand; as they had gotten used to her standing by the feeder they came over to her hand. She says in touching they are as light as a feather. Abagail also said, ‘if she had known her husband was taking pictures she would have put on makeup.’
I can see why she thought she needed makeup, but that has to be magical nonetheless. One time a cousin of mine caught a hummingbird in a little box when it accidentally flew into her house. She kept it a few minutes and then let it go. It was wonderful to see it so up-close. They are so shiny in real life, something that Internet pictures don’t fully portray.
I’ve held one- but it didn’t have a choice. I held it while the vet splinted it’s wing with a sliver of wood. The anesthesia was a bit touchy.It healed and wasl released back to the wild blue yonder.
I have a friend who breeds them in captivity. I think for the moment he’s the only one in Europa who has consistant succes breeding them. Very lovely little birds! I can watch them for hours.
These images have been floating around the net for a few years, now. The thing that struck me was that everything I’ve read on hummers is about how bad tempered they are, quick to anger, quick to attack - other birds, cats, people - anyone they think is interfering or threatening them. These pictures show that hummers can become acclimated to our presence fairly easily, but that they still don’t know the lyrics.
They know them just fine, problem is you have to play them back in slo-mo to be able to understand them To us it just sounds like Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Not ugly, just not acceptable by what society says women should look like, which is what I took her to mean. Her skin is blotchy and not colored well, she has bags under her eyes, her lips are receding, her teeth are yellowed, she has crows feet, and her hair cut looks like a little boy’s. Haley Joel Osment, in fact, resembles her a great deal:
In addition, that outfit looks like a cross between what a psychiatric ward patient and a mammy would wear to a picnic. The top alone with jeans or some kind of solid print pants (or the bottom part of a one piece? I can’t tell clearly from the picture) would have been fine, but striped pants are not something most people should wear, especially if the pattern is going to cover your whole body.
To us it just sounds like Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. 
