By Loretta Humble/Around the Town
The hummingbirds finally got to my house. I’ve been looking for them since March. Oh, I’ve seen a few stragglers, but never enough to empty one small feeder before the juice got old. Then last week a whole crowd showed up. Sometimes I see 15 or 20 buzzing around, picking fights with one another. Thinking they sure are late this year, I did a little internet search to find out where they’ve been and why they are so late. Well, duh. They’ve been up north already, and now they are headed south. They basically detoured around me this spring. I heard other people wondering where the hummers were earlier this year, so I’m trying not to take it personal. But I would still like to know what they were up to this spring, and they aren’t telling. If you know, I’d appreciate hearing.
They are doing something else I don’t understand. One minute there is a small cloud of them, buzzing around, fighting with one another, and then they all fly off—every one of them. In a few minutes they are back. I want to know where they go and why. Since they fight over the feeders when they are here, why would they fly off together? This puzzles me even more, now that I’ve learned that they don’t migrate in a flock, rather it’s every bird for itself, a bunch of little Lone Rangers.
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