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What a lovely visual! That would make me feel very special...from childhood  
on, I've always felt somehow honored by the unsolicited attention and  
acknowledgement of any 'wild' thing (except that incident in Yellowstone  
involving a 
mama and her two cubs - don't ever give a nine-year-old a camera and  send 
her into the woods without her daddy).
 
For maybe a month, every day in Glendale, AZ in 1975 or so (before it  got so 
built up and nasty and city-like) there was one single white dove that  used 
to come and sit on the outside sill of the kitchen window and watch me  doing 
dishes every morning after husband / kids had left for work / school. It  was 
the size of a mourning dove, and I think it had been raised domestic. It  
just 
sat there, and watched me. 
 
Nobody ever believed me, because she (to me, doves have a female  
personality) never appeared when anyone else was around.
 
Was she my totem? Just a passing thought...
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/10/2008 2:08:27 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
lurine AT softcom.net writes:

We have  about 30 some hummers that live here.  They come up to the window 
and  demand refills when their feeders are empty.  DH snaps his fingers and  
they come "running" when he goes out in the morning.  We have a  couple that 
over winter here.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----  
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> Well,  would you rather sit on a metal stool or a wooden one? ;)
> I'd agree,  it was probably the hardness and temp changes of the metal.
> The  cellulose of the rattan made it 'familiar'.
>
> Hummingbirds come  right up to us, within inches, as they have no fear of
> something so  slow.
>  

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