A Conglomeration of Germs
July 18, 2018
I don’t know if you’ve ever contemplated our hummingbirds. They’re living in a very unnatural situation here. Hundreds of them have a couple of feeders they share. That’s not how they usually live in nature. Out in nature, each hummingbird has its own territory, which is quite large because it needs lots of flowers to survive. Yet here they’re living in close quarters, and for the most part they get along. But then little squabbles break out here and there, and sometimes everything collapses. One hummingbird decides it’s going to take over a particular feeder and chases everybody else away. Or they get angry at one another for some reason, and things begin to break down. This morning the nectar ran out in almost all the feeders, and they began to get unglued.