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16 August 2003
hummingbird at rest
Over the last two weeks we've had a very regular visitor to the braches of the fig tree that's just outside the home office window--a hummingbird. Although there are a lot of them in the area, there's one that seems to be coming back again and again--to the same branch, around the same time of day, every day. There's nothing remarkable about the tree or the branch; it's welcoming enough to my eyes, but it seems to have caught the fancy of this little bird.
Why the posting about this? Well, they're normally zippy things, swooping and zooming around, finding enough food to fuel their incredible metabolism, so to see one sitting calmly on a branch, looking around, for minutes at a time is kind of unusual. And it seems like a nice thing that he--or she, or they--chose a spot that makes it seem as though he's looking in at us as we type at our desks.
Just a summer observation from southern California...