[mou] Duluth Hummingbird!

[Laura Erickson]

I just looked out my back window when what to my wondering eyes should 
appear...but a miniature bird!!  I saw it only for a few seconds, and when 
it flew, I ran to refill my feeder with fresh sugar water.  When I came 
back, it was there, but again I saw it for only a few seconds.  I'm going 
to sit by the window in hopes, but from the limited look I had, it may well 
have been a Selasphorus.  I'm at 4831 Peabody, on the corner of 49th Avenue 
East and Peabody (up 5 blocks from Superior Street) and people are welcome 
to look from our backyard.  It was in the second-story window in back of 
the house.  I'll set out a few more feeders just in case it stays.

Laura Erickson


Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

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There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of 
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of 
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson