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by Bob
October 8, 2021
(Tyler, Texas)
I need to lead into this so that you know my Mom loved hummingbirds and I bought her feeders each Christmas.
She died in January of 2019 having fought cancer for 2.5 years.
She was 93. I was her sole care giver.
So about mid September of 2021 this ornate hummingbird flies down to eye level about 3 feet away and hovers facing me.
I smiled and said "Oh...so you want me to get the feeders out!"
And that day I pulled out the feeders from storage, looked up a homemade feeder mix, mixed it up and put out five feeders.
That day 4 hummingbirds appeared darting, dodging and swooping around those feeders.
“The rocket man of birds!”
Many times I would be working near the feeders and I would hear the sonic fan of one close to my head just hovering, watching me.
Their wings move so fast that you see the wings in both the up stroke and the down stroke with a blur in the middle.
So tiny, yet the energy of a nuclear device.
And they travel similar routes that geese do for migration.
Amazing!
October 3th of 2021 the feeders needed cleaning so I took down 3 to cleanup.
I replaced the the last two with the 2 I had cleaned and refilled.
The next couple of days I was down to 2 hummingbirds, the ornate one and one of the plainer looking birds.
On the 7th, the little ornate guy again flew up and hovered 2 feet facing me for 30 seconds.
I got the intuitive feeling it was thanking me for the refill and to say good bye.
I have not seen any hummingbirds as of the next day.
Today is October 8th and my feeders will come down tomorrow.
Thank you for the display of acrobatics and your presence, friend.
Come back as I will be looking for you next year.
And be reminded of my Mom's good heart.
