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today as i was out harvesting weeds from between the bricks of the front walk, i got inspected by a hummingbird.
a juvenile male or a female — meaning small, gray-brown, and uninteresting in appearance — browsed around the bee balm for a while, then hovered up to look at me, hanging about three feet from my head.
i stood as still as i possibly could.
then it buzzed closer, about two feet away, at eye level.
i didn't breathe.
then it moved closer, until it was no more than a foot from my head, looking me straight in the face.
it hung there for about fifteen seconds, checking me out. i could feel the air move from the beating of its wings.
when it had decided i was neither a predator nor good to eat, it wheeled around and went back to its breakfast at the bee balm.
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Lovelovelovelove the title of that one. Laughed and laughed. Thank you!
Posted by: Reader | August 11, 2004 04:25 PM