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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 12:26 pm
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?

hummingbird perching
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 08:00 pm (UTC)
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.'