Producer Al writes:
Found this bird with balls of steel on my car this morning.
The :–2<: (pronounced ‘eye to eye’) Hummingbird Feeder ($80), invented in 2008 by Californian Doyle Doss, is a full-face polycarbonate mask adapted to include a feeder tube for tiny Trochilidae.
Very handy in rural Humboldt county. Less useful in, say, Ringsend.
Like that.
A female Amethyst-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus amethysticollis) sleeps in Peru. Apparently, the background hum is the sound of a generator attached to a machine measuring how much oxygen the bird is consuming.
Future studies will reveal how hummingbirds also fart and scratch themselves in the night.
Singer Josh Williams continues to belt out a foot-tappin’ rendition of ‘Mordecai’ at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival in North Carolina last summer, even after a tiny fan joins him at the mike (at around the 1.30 mark).
Aww.