I was out watering the flowers on my deck and a hummingbird chose to ignore me and drink from the feeder barely a foot away from me. In all the years I've had feeders out & had the little guys visiting me, I've never been closer than 10 feet to one. It was amazingly cool to see him so close! He was half the size of my thumb, all iridescent green with a bright poppy red patch, and he had a tongue. I didn't know that they had tongues. I just always thought they used their beak as a straw. But nope, he licked up a couple of spilled liquid drops off of the feeder. Took his time eating and acted like I wasn't even there. Definitely an experience I won't forget.
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