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louslobbs

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1. Beautiful! I've got one in my backyard that basically
Fri Jun 23, 2023, 07:05 PM
Jun 2023

owns all of the Firecracker Penstemon flowers. Any other hummingbird comes near those flowers and it’s a nasty chase scene. Beautiful bird, but very territorial. There’s like a thousand, red, horn shaped flowers, and no other hummingbirds are allowed to gather nectar. Sometimes that little bird sits in a tree watching and waiting…I can just barely see the little silhouette sitting there on a branch. So cute, but really greedy.

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