Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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10:55 - Moved to lower perch on same shrub
to avoid another bird (not hummer).
Returned to perch immediately.
Facing west - keeps turning head.
Seems to face into the wind.
11:00 Stretching, scratching self with left foot.
Repeat. Flew up in air about 6 ft.
11:01 Returned to perch #1 (was at #2).
Up in air and back again.
Flashing copper from throat.
Left perch - returned.
11:02 To columbine about 50 yds. away.
Return to col. about 20 ft. from perch #1.
Feeding - probing - 6-5-6-4-5.
Back to perch #1.
11:04 Feeding, col. 20 ft. away.
Feet hanging slightly - not retracted.
11:07 Chasing hummer.
Back to perch #2.
Feeding, col. — 5-5-5-5 - partly perched.
11:08 To Perch #1 facing south.
11:11 - To pinetree, perching.
11:14 - TO Perch #2.