Humbirders, just for fun…

I’ve seen a zillion hummers, have had one hit my feeders in the dark, have seen them with deformed/stretched 2x bills, have found them caught in spider webs (still hot and sassy) that I’ve set free, found an adult male Rufous, cussing, in the grass too full of sugar-water to fly (that one was an easy rescue), but I have yet to find one in torpor. Her photo opens sideways on my monitor, but you get the idea…

Hummers Rock!!!

Larry

From: obol-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:obol-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Zia Fukuda
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 7:49 AM
To: obol@freelists.org
Subject: [obol] Anna’s hummingbird visits for the night!

I’ve never seen a sleeping hummingbird… but last night when my husband was coming in from locking the chickens up, he noticed this small fluff ball attached to a jasmine vine that had crept over our patio, about 4 feet off the ground.

The hummingbird started out right- side up, and we figured he was in torpor and went inside to do a little research. Evidently they wind up upside down when they’re sleeping (which this guy obviously did) and are so dead to the world that you could pick them up (which we did not attempt) but thought we could take a few photos. He was still there just before 7 this morning, but is now fighting with at least one other guy over breakfast.

Cheers,

Zia Fukuda