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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI saw something weird this morning as I was getting reading to take Rich to the Cancer Center. A bird was hanging on a
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wire upside down by his feet sleeping. I yelled at it and it flew to the other side of our street and hung by the feet upside down. I looked closer and it was not a bat. I have never seen a bird do this. Any birders know what is going on with this bird. Thank you
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I saw something weird this morning as I was getting reading to take Rich to the Cancer Center. A bird was hanging on a (Original Post)
debm55
Jul 26
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Thank you. This looked more like a sparrow. The coloring on it was a brownish color. That's why I thought it was a bat.
debm55
Jul 26
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Joinfortmill
(15,681 posts)1. Google said humming birds hang upside down. As do parrots.
debm55
(30,027 posts)2. Thank you. This looked more like a sparrow. The coloring on it was a brownish color. That's why I thought it was a bat.
Medium size. Thank you Joinfortmill.
PufPuf23
(9,099 posts)11. Male hummingbirds are much more colorful than females.
In some hummingbird species, the females are mostly brownish.
May your husband have success in his treatments.
Ocelot II
(119,038 posts)3. Some birds will hang upside down for short periods of time.
debm55
(30,027 posts)4. Thank you, Ocelot II, I never saw that before. I thought it died.
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Arne
(3,328 posts)5. Bird was actually right side up.
It's the world that is upside down.
debm55
(30,027 posts)6. Oh You, Thank you Arne.
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GreenWave
(8,384 posts)9. Good point Arne. That's why Antartica has no people and Australia very few.
They are always falling off the planet Down Under.
Arne
(3,328 posts)10. So the Bats had it right the whole time.
SWBTATTReg
(23,443 posts)7. Maybe they're keeping an eye on the ground more easier, for easy to get bugs walking underneath them?
debm55
(30,027 posts)8. Thank you, SWBTATTReg.
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