In a week without much birding news, perhaps this incident will amuse. At 6 AM in my garden, a female hummer twice approached within an inch of my urine stream. Of course I tried to discourage her. I believe she was confused because, in the same spot at the same time 2 days ago, I was standing right next to a sprinkler set so low that the drops only rose some 8". This same bird (I'm sure) came for a drink, apparently sipping drops out of the air and also from the dripping fronds of a tarragon plant. Then it moved just beyond the sprinkling and perched 8" above the ground on the wire of a tomato cage, where it spent a good minute or two preening and spreading out its feathers. All this while I was standing practically right over her. I believe when it saw me today and saw the liquid stream, it thought it could repeat the enjoyable experience.
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