Behold an addict.
For most of this afternoon that little junkie has been perched next to the hummingbird feeder.
Understand a couple of things:
1) Hummingbirds are right bastards. (Well, at least to other hummingbirds.) They are HIGHLY territorial and when the come across a dietary gold mine like the feeder, they get even more assertive. It's one of the things i always thought was funny whenever i see feeder ads featuring artists renderings of multiple birds having the equivalent of tea. Just doesn't happen. In reality i'm fairly sure that three of those birds would be in a high speed ball of hate and shredded bird flesh. The fourth would be attacking the artist.
2) Hummingbird food consist of 32g of pure cane sugar mixed with about 8oz of water. Add a few more grams and you've got the base for rock candy. Add artificial coloring and caffeine and you've got a sports drink. Now imagine feeding that to the avian version of a chihuahua. i'll note that this was the clearest of the 12 or so pictures i took of it. i like to think of this as less hum, more buzz.
Still, there's something oddly gratifying about getting natures li'l crackhead all buzzed up on joy juice. Mostly because it means knowing that you've always got a little friend in the yard.
Possibly hallucinating.
And trying to figure how to steal your wallet so it can go buy a slurpee.
Thank you Paul for making me realize that these little flying jewels are one sleeveless t-shirt away from being featured on COPS.
JR is just trying to attract aggressive humming birds to try and deal with his mocking bird problem.
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Funny you mention this. We purchased a humming bird feeder yesterday to replace the broken one on the patio. I had not witnessed the territorial behavior before, but there were two of them going at it. My prediction was that these two were gonna go home and make some little hummingbirds, but that is just my sick mind doing its thing.