During the first weeks of May, my hummingbird feeder didn't get much use. In the last few days though, the sugar water has been depleted rapidly.

The hummingbirds that I now see at it appear to be a different variety from those that I saw at it previously through the last year. These are much smaller and more plainly colored. They also seem more willing to accept the possibility that I have no aggressive intentions.

Yester-day, one arrived at the feeder as I was stepping out of my apartment. I paused and said hello (which is actually a way of trying to distinguish my behavior from that of a predator hoping to be unnoticed before it strikes). It decided to drink. It hovered for a while as it did so, but eventually sat to drink, with its back to me. It was too small to reach the hole if sitting on the circular rest at the bottom of the feeder, and so it sat on the rim of the floret around the hole.

After it finished, we went on our respective ways.

Tags: birds, hummingbirds

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