Thirsty hummingird

[jswordy]

A Tennessee winery caught this image!

 

[JohnT]

No "Bird-Brain" here!

 

[Arne]

And you have to wait how long to fly after you drink?? Great pic, Jim. Arne.

 

[Sammyk]

I find this disturbing because we feed hummingbirds. It would not take much wine to make it drunk and hurt itself.
Does anyone else find it disturbing?
Ours sit on a line and chirp at us when they need more food.....

 

[jamesngalveston]

Disturbing: NO
We all know that humming birds love that color.
I think it was a chance of luck that someone got that pic, nature in its raw.
Racoons will eat muscadines till they fall out of a tree.
Birds, etc eat wild grapes till they cant fly.
Squirrels will eat fermenting pecans.
And monkeys will steal your cocktails in some asian resorts.
if we loose one hummingbird to alcoholism , it is not a big deal.
BTW...i feed tons of humming birds.
I will have to keep a lid on my dragon blood by the pool.

 

[JohnT]

Imagine just how the "Humming Bird" AA meeting will go...

HUM, HUM HUMHUM HUM HUM, HUM HUM HUM HUM HUMHUMHUMHUM...

(translation: Hi, my name is time, and I am an alcohalic).

johnT.

 

[jswordy]

James, don't forget cows and apples! A cow does not have to eat a fermenting apple. If it eats any old apple, it will ferment in the cow's stomachs because that's what they are - fermentation chambers for cellulose.

Windfall apples off a tree in a pasture can make cows so drunk they refuse to stand up. They don't quit eating them, either, until they are blasted. Farmers with apple trees have to fence them out or rotate the cows quickly through that pasture.

We feed hummers, too, and every other kind of bird known to humankind that is in our range. I also have bluebird boxes, and I keep them religiously cleaned out after each clutch fledges. We house 6-10 broods of baby bluebirds a year out of each of those houses. Bluebirds won't lay in an old nest, but you clean it out, and tah-dah! New nest, new family.

We're so generous around my place that if we slip up and let the feeders go empty, when we step out the door we get told off by a bunch of chattering birds. Ha! Love it.

Look at this goofy goose that landed in our yard one time. Could not get enough room to take back off, so I went out and opened the gate and herded him out. He walked across the road, where there is a cornfield, and later took off.



We have tons of geese around in spring and fall because we have two ponds in back.

 

[jswordy]

I find this disturbing because we feed hummingbirds. It would not take much wine to make it drunk and hurt itself.
Does anyone else find it disturbing?
Ours sit on a line and chirp at us when they need more food.....

Please note that we do not know if it is actually wine in the glass. It could be colored sugar water.

 

[Deezil]

Please note that we do not know if it is actually wine in the glass. It could be colored sugar water.

I was going to say the same thing; It's probably a clever "bait and wait" photoshoot, with colored sugar-water.. A very neat idea though, I have the urge to recreate it in my own environment (with sugar-water of course)

 

[Sammyk]

I did not think of colored sugar water. I sure hope that is what it was.

 

[Wade E]

I do think it is colored sugar water, look at the bottom of the glass. It looks like the sugar didnt dissolve great. Either that or that winery needs to invest in a filtration unit! LOL