#my favorite hummingbird

[fatchance]

Recent hummingbirds: Violet-crowned hummingbird / colibrí corona violeta (Leucolia violiceps) at Beatty's Guest Ranch, Cochise County, Arizona.

[strawbie-doodle]

HUMMINGBIRD, SUMMER SONG ✺

[anthropoetics]

Raymond Carver, “Hummingbird,” from All of Us: The Collected Poems

[illeaadante]

I've finally figured out my main ship type: Panther and Hummingbird.

Panther:

• tol

• dark

• laconic but dangerous

• very protective/possessive of what they deem as theirs

Hummingbird:

• smol

• bright/colorful

• constantly ready to throw hands

[yellowplumfruit]

some pictures from my flagstaff trip! 🩵

[postboxadventures]

2024 Garden Delights stamps

[curiosity-killed]

Me: doesn’t really seek out or prioritize smut when reading fic

Also me: knows the Trigun Plants aren’t really based on or analogous to plants at all

Also me: giving Vash mostly human reproductive anatomy with additional labia as “petals” is boring, give that boy some freaky alien pollinator anatomy

[icewindandboringhorror]

Misc. photos from the past year or so ~

[verved]

The only thing keeping me sane rn is birdwatching on the balcony of this hotel. There are so many species of bird here its incredible and I'm greatly enjoying the bird drama unfold.

[darklight-owl]

I think being a naturalist fixed me I think

Cus before i was like i dunno why i'm alive so im just gonna lie in my bed and wait for death but now im like i dunno why i'm alive but it doesn't matter because my friend told me the chaguales on the trail near his house are in bloom so i gotta hike over there as soon as possible so we can maybe possibly see the mariposa del chagual

[guardsbian]

I'm voting against Elk because I would rather see which furrybait is genuinely the most popular

[keeps-ache]

thinking of fairies that look like ferret + mourning doves. uh huh yep :>

[myns-poetry-blog]

The Hummingbird Feeder Poem

It started with a hummingbird feeder. 

I found it in the summer aisle of a dollar tree

Floating in a sea of pineapple and flamingo decor. 

It was a bright hibiscus red along the top and bottom

And had little yellow flowers along the base.

I took it home with me that day. 

I don’t exactly remember why I did. 

I hung it by the front door of my house. 

Filling it wasn’t hard in the beginning —

It was just sugar water after all. 

Then it was time to wait patiently by the door

In quiet anticipation hoping to catch 

Even a simple fleeting glance of a visitor. 

The wait was agonizing. 

The first time I saw a hummingbird was a rush —

A moment punctuated by a gasp, and left me waiting 

With a pounding heart and silent awe by the door. 

Waiting, waiting for more wondrous moments 

That brought such a simple and long awaited joy. 

But those fleeting moments don’t last so long, 

And joy is but a simple sip before it’s gone. 

I don’t remember when it happened,

But I couldn’t bring myself to refill the feeder. 

One day it felt like too much to mix the sugar water.

Too much effort for something I’d be too busy to notice.

Too much effort for something that now brought too little joy.

So the bright red feeder was forgotten,

And like many other things I cherished, tossed aside. 

…

I found the hummingbird feeder the other day. 

The once hibiscus red color had long since faded

And the pretty yellow flowers were dirtied with time. 

It’s too much to do anything these days, 

Too much effort for apathy. 

Yet I pushed on to fill it back up again 

And hang it by the front door once more. 

[eiders]

Lesser Violetear (Colibri cyanotus) at Batsú

[finitevoid]

why does no one else but me think that cartoon bart allen is just a deeply unsettling person. i think his vibes are just fucked. he walks into a room and everything about his affectation is normal and charming even but the longer you see him move the more he seems like a puppet being pulled on strings in some approximation of humanity

[solibrie]

🗣️ BABY, IT'S YOU! YOU'RE THE ONE I LOVE, YOU'RE THE ONE I NEED, YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE I SEE!!!! COME ON, BABY, IT'S YOU! YOU'RE THE ONE THAT GIVES YOUR ALL, YOU'RE THE ONE I CAN ALWAYS CALL!!!!!!!