Killer Hummingbirds

[intertext]

Really. I'm serious. Remember, you read it here first.

They are beautiful and jewel-like, but could be deadly. And remember their attraction to red...

We have very bold, aggressive hummers here, and the other day when I was walking, one buzzed me and I saw his long pointy beak and thought "you know, someone could make a horror movie about swarms of rogue, vampire hummingbirds..." And imagined news reports of people being found, drained of blood, with a single tiny hole in their neck.

Don't you think this one has quite a fierce expression?

Comments

[marri.livejournal.com]

I've been buzzed by these things too! The worst was a pair of them on Pender Island who kept zooming past me, and essentially herded me out of "their" garden.

That one looks ready for murder. That's begging to become a macro. 'Nectar in short supply. Blood a considerable alternative.'

[wendymc.livejournal.com]

I would totally watch that movie....or read that novel. Let me know when you get it written ;)

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

The ferocious Huitzilopoch tli (http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ho-Iv/Huitzilopochtli.html). the Aztec god of war and the sun, was depicted as a hummingbird. You could certainly weave that into such a story.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Woah. This is taking off...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It sure does!

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

There has to be a scene in which one victim fights back and is rewarded by the hummingbird beak going into his eye and maybe coming out with the eyeball attached like a martini olive on a toothpick.

[owlfish]

I am vaguely reminded of the plague of biting ladybirds which swept Toronto a number of years ago.