Tuesday, April 27, 2010

TINY TERROR


I had a tiny visitor today!

This poor little fellow showed up in my library today. He is not the first tiny terror to arrive. Generally speaking bees are most apt to visit when the weather is sweet and I leave the back door to the playground open. They do cause general havoc... since they like to fly in when the Kindergarteners are present.

Today's visitor arrived when the middle school was working on computers in my lab. Immediately the room was excited. This guy was so befuddled that it was sad. For a time he perched on one of the sprinkler pipe and just trilled his alarm. Then the kids, who meant well, tried to shoo him out the door again.

One kid says "Be careful they have stingers!"

The entire room turned their heads to look at him in disbelief.


Sadly, he was serious. I wondered if sometime in his past when he was younger if he did not pester the humming birds until some adult with good intent on behalf of some harassed bird had said "It'll sting you..." in an attempt to get him to stop pestering one.

Shortly after, the sub who had brought the kids to my lab to work, stood on a chair... these windows are higher than they look... and gently took it into her hands and released it outside once more. It left her hands so fast you could not see it vanish.
It was simply gone.


Other than that... not much happened today of note except that I received my 3001st email from Randy today. It read:
"Sweet dreams my baby."

I figure at this rate we will make it to 4000 by the time I move down there. Ha!


Life is sweet!


Happy Hump Day!

18 comments:

  1. Some birds do have stingers. Scorpions for example.

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  2. I love watching Humming Birds.. they are pretty and fly very fast.. I saw one a few years ago when I still had plants in the backyard.. Seeing them in the city is a rarity.. Hope to see one again soon..

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  3. Mo-- Oh that's right! I forogot about scorpions buzz bombing me. hee hee

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  4. Mrs.HarryWoman-- We have them all the time out here in the sticks. But I noticed that where I'm moving we have them too, even though it is a much bigger city, it is still semi-rural where I live there. I would miss the little kamikazies.

    Ah... where did your plants go?

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  5. Mrs.HarryWoman-- If you like birds, I bet you like the photos that secret agent woman takes. They are amazing!

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  6. Poor little thing. I'm glad it was escorted out without incident.

    I had never seen a hummingbird in real life until my last trip to Cape Cod when we saw a bunch visiting my sister-in-law's feeder. We were sitting on her deck and they just kept coming. It was amazing. Hard to believe it is a bird.

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  7. Aw, poor thing. But glad you got it out.

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  8. Cube-- They really are something. This one was red, but I have seen iridescent greens, blues and golds too. I like the sound they make as they come and go.

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  9. Pamela-- The sub did yes. Probably the happiest moment of his little life.

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  10. Love humming birds. I'm glad things are humming right along with you and your beau.

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  11. Churlita-- Me too! On both counts.

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  12. Amazing. I never knew hummingbirds would venture indoors. Wow.

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  13. Suldog-- It was very cool actually. I have tried for years to photograph them, but they are way too fast for me. This was a real treat to be able to snap this so close.

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  14. There is something amazing about hummingbirds...I, too, have never seen one get indoors. Glad the sub had good hands :-)

    What a sweet message for number 3001. Another thousand like that would be lovely.

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  15. laura b.-- I've seen one inside my friend's deli before this, but never where I dwell. We do have a large population of the fabulous fliers.

    I thought it was very sweet too. I hope I didn't make anyone uncomfortable by quoting it.

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  16. when i was a kid birds often flew into our living room window. pesticides and crows have solved that problem.

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  17. billy pilgrim-- As you know I hate crows! They used to steal my baby ducklings from my yard and drop them from high into the street to splatter them open to get to the gooey centers. I still try to run down the ones I see in the road, but they're too quick for me. Girrr

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  18. You've reminded me that I need to get the hummingbird feeders out.-

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