The hummingbird is back outside my office window. Wave petunias are beginning to blossom in the window box and the tiny being, attracted by red, comes to drink sweet nectar. The days are still cool and the nights downright chilly, but the little hummingbird seems to find enough to stoke its inner furnace.
Last summer one came and hovered close to the window nearly every morning until frost took away the flowers, but I was never able to capture it with the camera. Hummingbirds always seem to know when the camera is focused on them. They will buzz right up to you and land on your red shirt, mistaking you for a flower. But --sit quietly with a camera focused on the flowers where they have been drinking nectar just a moment ago and they will hide from you and your red shirt. It was rare for me to be able to snap this photo of one in Evergreen, Colorado last August.
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