Beauty

[WhateverLolaWants]

This is most unusual to find a humming bird, at 8:40 am still asleep in torpor (the way a humming bird survives at night without eating, by slowing down its heart rate and metabolism, usually perched upright with the beak pointing straight up).

When I came into the kitchen, DH said, "I think we have a dead hummer". When I looked, I said, "Oh, I hope he's just still in torpor" (but it is very unusual for a bird to roost overnight on the feeder, let alone upside down, let alone still be sleeping by that time of the morning). Other hummingbirds were visiting other stations at the same feeder and still the little guy didn't stir.

Finally, I noticed him starting to "vibrate", still hanging upside down, and then he quickly righted himself, "mixed it up" with another hummer visiting the feeder, and zoomed away!

Happy ending to the story!