Once upon a time … (on Mar 25) … we spied a lovely little hummingbird lady on a nest right outside our front window.
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And she sat and she sat and she sat …
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on her two tiny eggs, until she hatched two very tiny babies (Apr2) – two very tiny, very hungry little babies.
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And she fed them and fed them and fed them.
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And she fluffed them. And cleaned them.
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And little by little they grew (Apr7 - next three pics below).
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Until, sadly, on Apr12, a bigger [bad] bird stole away the babies. And we were very sad. (By the way, all the chicken wire you see was our attempt to stave off this kind of a bigger bird encounter. Darwinists, we are not.)
On Apr30, Mama came back and laid just one egg. May2, she laid a second egg.
![second batch of babies second batch of babies](//lh6.ggpht.com/-9HDgbSCewIg/U3K3ytq9W0I/AAAAAAAARvU/j9l_HhTs2yI/second%252520batch%252520of%252520babies_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
And now she sits and sits and sits. And we wait. And watch. And hope for a happier ending.
Oh, and Mama lets me come much closer now. Happy sigh.
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![hummingbird-7 hummingbird-7](//lh6.ggpht.com/-FaIDa2PrbDo/U3K31gdpd6I/AAAAAAAARvs/7oOhUBK2KC0/hummingbird-7_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800)