A wise person once said that hummingbirds have the personality of junkyard dogs, and he was right. We have two feeders in our front yard, which we keep filled and tended, but you would think we are the enemy. If we should happen to go out into the front of the house while the little blighters are trying to feed, they think nothing of buzzing around our heads so that we will hurry away.
Tiny warriors guard their turf...
It is interesting to me that there would be plenty of hummer food available, and yet the tiny warriors guard their turf and run off each other as if there was barely a drop left…with one notable exception. Our main feeder has a long, cylindrical reservoir with four perches around it, enough that four birds could feed at once…if they would ever allow it! Well, one cold and rainy day, they did. It was very wet and gloomy, and as I looked out the window, I saw that all four perches were being used by hungry hummers peacefully feeding and one fluttering nearby waiting for a turn! None of them bothered to trouble one other.
Did the milk of bird kindness overtake them...
What was that about? Were they just hungry enough not to spend the effort running off the others? Did the milk of bird kindness overtake them as they became aware that there was plenty for all? Certainly I didn’t know, and I don’t always know why humans who withhold from one another can have times when they become unusually generous. And maybe I should not care.
Extend our spiritual love around...
We are entering one of the sacred seasons of the year, and whether we are thinking about room at the feeder or room at the inn, could we not think to extend our spiritual love around perhaps a bit more uncharacteristically this year? It is not so much that we spread money around---although we certainly could---as much as we spill out the spiritual love we have in abundance. There is always plenty of that to spread around.
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Nice post and observation, Ms. Stortz. It would be nice if we as humans knew that there is plenty, enough to go around as the birds figured out. Lynn M.
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