Northern Flicker feeding a young one who soon
after makes the mistake of bumping into my
window before flying away
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Hummingbird and Salvia
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One needs to see this full screen and then look very
closely for the starling murmuration at the beginning
of this video. Toward the end I zoomed in, making
it somewhat easier to see the small murmuration. In
the last few seconds of filming, I heard the whirring
sound of a hummingbird and looked up and was startled
to see a hummingbird directly in front of me. One can
see the equally startled hummingbird flying away at the
end of the video. This is the second morning in a row
that I have looked out my east-facing window and seen
a murmuration and one of many mornings in the past
week when a hummingbird has flown close to me as
I stood on my porch, both of us looking around in the
early morning.
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When the universe is silent we listen with great pleasure to a bird that suddenly sings.
-- Hong Zicheng
