Sunday, September 14, 2008

"Hummy Birds"




This is our Hummingbird Ruffus. He hangs out in our garden every day, and chases all the other humming birds away. We first got a feeder after a hummingbird got stuck in our garage. We got a feeder to try and lure him out, but when we got home from the store he flew out. So we hung up the feeder in our backyard and now we have Ruffus. Whenever Rilynn is outside she spots "Hummy Birds" so we all call them that now. The kids have fun with it, they really think he his our pet, and they help me change his food. One morning Alex left the garage open and a humming bird flew in and I closed the garage not knowing it was in there. Latter Bridger and I went in the garage and heard the humming bird flying around and opened the garage so it could go out, but it wouldn't. When Alex got home he chased it around with a bat wearing the poor bird out till it purched on one of our garage shelves. We had to go so we put the feeder by it and left. When we got home we had an over stuffed drunk Hummingbird. It was so dosile Alex was able to gently grab it and take it to the back yard. We are guessing it was Ruffus since we didn't see him for a few days, but thankfully he is back to chasing other birds away. Soon he will be migrating but we hope he comes back.

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