From Dallas Morning News, July 28, 2008...
DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas – It's the very picture of feathered frustration: a black-chinned hummingbird hovering impatiently over Mike Murphy's right shoulder.
Mr. Murphy is a bit too close to the hummer's lunch. The tiny creature darts toward the nectar-filled feeder, loses its nerve and retreats to nearby shrubs, then tries again a few seconds later.
Mr. Murphy is troweling "critter food" – a mixture of peanut butter, lard and cornmeal – onto a log. When he finishes and moves to another log, the black-chin zooms over to the nectar feeder. Before you can say, "Soup's on," that one and two others are divebombing one another to get to the sugar water.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
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