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 "Mother Calliope Hummingbird Feeding Her Young"

The Calliope is the smallest of area Hummingbirds.

"The Littlest of Nests"

By RaeDi - May 2008

The sun was out and it called to me

I grabbed my sun glasses, blanket and a tall glass of ice tea

Collecting my two books, a drawing pad and camera in hand

I arrived at the hammock placed under the Apple trees

Settled my drink and amble reading material with my paper and inks

The table was just the right size for all of my needs

I situated the blanket in the hammock just so

Thank goodness I had remembered to bring my small pillow

It took less than a few minutes for all to be just right

I lay there listening to all natures calls and her songs

Oh, I stopped to listen what had I just heard

Again I heard to my delite followed the smallest of notes

I spotted it up in the Crabapple tree

A mother hummingbird feeding her young, I could see all three

There in the branches was the littlest of nests

 The faint series of their light chip notes

Their songs and the site of the lichen-moss nest

Covered in cobwebs, sitting tightly between two limbs hugging the trunk of the tree

Protection she had found in this Crabapple tree

In just a few days they would all fly free

I lay back in my hammock thinking what a great day

The sun still shining, I’d close my eyes and listened to the music that  nature was providing for me

Right there in my backyard it is all there for me, everything I could want and everything I would ever need

For my Spirit Sis, Peg.  We together discovered this nest.  We were very quite so as to not upset the Calliope and her young.  It took each of us back to when we fed and protected our young against any harm that might come their way.