Anna's Hummingbird On Nest -- Image by kenne
A branch, a nest, a bird.
Nothing more is needed.
Spider silk binds the walls,
lichen softens the edges.
The Anna's hummingbird rests there,
breathing with the rhythm of the desert morning.
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Hummingbird On Nest 3 comments
Anna’s Hummingbird 2 comments
Anna’s Hummingbird — Image by kenne
tiny green body,
she hovers where stories live—
between what we say
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Anas’s Hummingbird On Our Patio in the Morning Light — Image by kenne
In the early light, the hummingbird pauses in air the way a thought pauses before becoming memory. Its throat flashes pink, then disappears again, as if the bird were deciding which version of itself to show the morning. I stand with my coffee and realize the patio has become a small stage, and this bright creature knows exactly when to arrive.
— kenne
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Hummingbirds And The Angle Of Light 3 comments
Anna’s Hummingbird, I Think — Image by kenne
Hummingbirds and the Angle of Light
The light deceives—
what was emerald becomes flame,
what was ruby turns to shadow.
You think you see the bird,
but it is the god you glimpse instead—
that quick shimmer between worlds.
They are not creatures of feather alone,
but of transformation,
messengers of the moment
when color forgets its name
and becomes pure presence.
Stand still,
and the air itself begins to sing—
reminding you
that beauty is never the thing seen,
but the seeing.
— kenne
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A Little Anna’s Hummingbird — Image by kenne
hello little bird
you’re easily not noticed
with your size and speed
— kenne
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Anna’s Hummingbird (Sabina Canyon) — Image by kenne
I fly to the “Flight of the Bumblebee”
I dance to “Shout”
I sing to “The Power of Love”
I live to the “Songs of Life”
I create to “Kind of Blue”
— kenne
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Anna’s Hummingbird On Our Patio Feeder — Image by kenne
“Hummingbirds are proof that great things come in small packages.”
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Anna’s Hummingbird Approaching Feeder On Patio — Image by kenne
Anna’s hummingbird
The more I observe hummers
The more I’m amazed.
— kenne
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Anna’s Hummingbird — Image by kenne
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. And every phrase
And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
Taking its place to support the others,
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
An easy commerce of the old and the new,
The common word exact without vulgarity,
The formal word precise but not pedantic,
The complete consort dancing together)
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph.
— from Little Gidding by T. S. Eliot
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Anna’s Hummingbird At Feeder 5 comments
Anna’s Hummingbird at Our Patio Feeder (August 27, 2022) — Images by kenne
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Anna’s Hummingbird On Nest In Southern Arizona — Image by kenne
Nesting Facts
— Usually lays 2 eggs per nest
— Has 2 to 3 broods each year.
— Incubation is 16 days.
— Nesting period is 20 days.
— Eggs are white
(Source: hummingbird-guide.com)
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“Hello, Little Bird” (Anna’s Hummingbird in Sweetwater Wetlands Park) — Image by kenne
hello little bird
you’re easily not noticed
with your size and speed
— kenne
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Anna’s Hummingbird (Southern Arizona) — Image by kenne
The lack of bright color on the head indicates this is either a female or a young male. — kenne
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I Saw A Hummingbird As Big As The Sky 1 comment
Anna’s Hummingbird — Image by kenne
I saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail,
I saw a Blazing Comet, drop down hail,
I saw a Cloud, with Ivy circled round,
I saw a sturdy Oak, creep on the ground,
I saw a Ant swallow up a Whale,
I saw a raging Sea, brim full of Ale,
I saw a Venice Glass, Sixteen foot deep,
I saw a well, full of mens tears that weep,
I saw their eyes, all in a flame of fire,
I saw a House, as big as the Moon and higher,
I saw the Sun, even in the midst of night,
I saw the man, that saw this wondrous sight.
— Anonymous (400 Year-Old Nonsense Poem)
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Anna’s Hummingbird — Image by kenne
Named for the 19th-century Italian duchess Anna Massena, the
Anna’s hummingbird is one of only three hummingbird species
that are permanent residents of the United States and Canada.
(The others are the Allen’s and Costa’s.) This hardy hummingbird
has the northernmost year-round range of any North American
hummingbird species.
— American Bird Conservancy
