Hummingbird is Relaxing after drinking a lot of flower nectar

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Hummingbird is Relaxing after drinking a lot of flower nectar

[Donkees]

1. Torpor

[Bayard]

2. A perfect fit!

[INdemo]

3. I have days like this

[Sanity Claws]

4. I have never seen a hummingbird at rest before.

Great photo.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Nectar drunk

I've felt the same way in a past life.

[DFW]

6. I always wondered what hummingbords use for hammocks

I shall wonder no longer.

[mjvpi]

7. Sunday Morning Coming Down

[wnylib]

8. Hummingbirds were not common where

I grew up, so the first time I saw one when I was a kid, I was frightened. I heard it first, "buzzing" near me. When I looked, I thought it was a gigantic bee and ran away.

[Historic NY]

14. We have those too but they are actually hummingbird moths with clear wings...

[link:https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Hemaris-thysbe|]

I have trumpet vines in the yard, and they attract both......

[wnylib]

15. Nope. What I saw was definitely

a ruby throated hummingbird. It was summer in our yard in Erie, PA. I told my parents and my father, who lived for his yard and garden, and observed many natural creatures, told me what it was. Showed me a picture in our encyclopedia and I recognized the spot of red and the long bill.

I saw it, or another like it, again that summer. It did the hover bit and flew in all directions, as hummingbirds do, among the flowers in our yard. Once I understood what it was, I was fascinated by it.

[Historic NY]

9. He looks stewed...

[xxqqqzme]

11. He's stoned!

n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

10. Other hummingbirds the next day:

“Dude, you were SO faced!”

[CaptainTruth]

12. That's a banana blossom, but they hang down, not up.

Someone apparently cut the blossom off & mounted it upside down, probably in some sugar water, for the hummingbirds.

This is exactly what they look like on our banana trees:

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[pecosbob]

13. I can't believe I ate the whole thing...

[MLAA]

16. Responsible hummingbird. Didn't drink and fly.

[lark]

17. Didn't know that birds did this.

Glad the little guy gets to take a rest.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. There's something you don't see very often.

In fact, I've never seen it. I always thought they were too ADHD to rest.

Something else I'd never seen a hummingbird do - feed on the ground. There was one in our back yard doing that a couple of weeks ago. We grow a lot of flowers, fruits and vegetables, and have a couple of different kinds of feeders, so we get quite a variety of birds.