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To: Horatio Gates

What a beauty!

My mother used to live on property that bordered the Bear River just north of Sacramento, and there were swarms of Black-Chinned Hummers with their brilliant purple throats. My stepdad would fill three of the big feeders four times a day for the little guys. I used to sit on the stairs leading up to the roof and watch them, and sometimes I'd find myself in the middle of the swarm.

Oh, to have had a camera!


32 posted on 03/08/2006 7:57:48 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: SandyInSeattle

You may not have had a camera, but you still have the picture.


37 posted on 03/08/2006 8:28:46 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: SandyInSeattle

That sounds really neat. When I get swarmed it's usually seagulls. 8>) I have a roll of 35mm around here somewhere of pics of about ten grey jays chasing my son around up at Mowich Lake trying to get his sandwich. I wish I knew where I put that.


45 posted on 03/08/2006 8:48:56 AM PST by Horatio Gates
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