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Prof. P.E. Name

(63 posts)
Thu Jun 13, 2024, 01:01 PM Jun 2024

Tiny Hummingbird Brain vs. Gigantic Human Brain: On my being trained by a small bird

I'm guessing that the cc's of my brain make it larger than that of the Ruby Throat Hummingbird, although sometimes my
wife would argue otherwise.
Yet this year when black ants took over my feeder, literally engorging and killing themselves en masse in the liquid and
scaring my little friends away, I decided to give the feeder a rest by taking it down for awhile from the rain chain where it
hung.
After coming back several times to the now vacant spot over a week or so, a female Ruby Hummer flew to the "spying"
window, met me eye-to-eye, lecture lingering me for a full half minute or so as if to say: "Yo, Big Brain, figure out how to make
this thing work."
Whereupon I dutifully Rube Goldberged a bent wire to give the feeder some separation from the rain chain.
One hour later, Lady Ruby rewarded me for being so quick to learn what she wanted.

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sanatanadharma

(4,074 posts)
1. Conscious-being is not limited by the brain
Thu Jun 13, 2024, 01:53 PM
Jun 2024

'Conscious-being' is not limited by the brain.
The brain only limits what 'conscious-being' can do with the body.

AllaN01Bear

(23,281 posts)
3. we had a trumpet vine when i lived with my mom. the buds would come first and mom wuld see a hummer hovering near one as
Thu Jun 13, 2024, 05:39 PM
Jun 2024

to say open open open. mom would say , not yet.

AllaN01Bear

(23,281 posts)
4. friend of mine has a feeder outside his 2nd floor apartment window . when it is empty the birds will go tap tap tap . he
Thu Jun 13, 2024, 05:44 PM
Jun 2024

will say, hold your horses and then fill it up again and the birds were happy.

IA8IT

(5,924 posts)
5. In spring if jelly feeder isn't on trellis outside kitchen door returning Orioles scold me.
Sun Jun 16, 2024, 10:59 AM
Jun 2024
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