First saw this the other night. It's an amethyst-throated sunangel, which is a South American species of hummingbird. Now hummingbirds, being what they are, are difficult to imagine sleeping. Or at least they were. Now I know that they look and sound pretty much exactly like <i>Sesame Street</i> Muppets when they sleep.
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We'd also seen a version of this hummingbird asleep - the bbc one where the guy wouldn't shut up. hmpff, some people. But it's very sweet and very rare. You'd never know they snore from watching the one we see at our balcony. Nobody else dares to visit those flowers.
Have we ever mentioned the whale watching boats that go out every day? We often wonder how many real sightings there are or is there a large rubber beast that surfaces at appropriate times. Some ladies in CA were out whale watching in a kayak when things went rather spectacularly wrong. The good news is he spit them and their kayak out again.
It's unfortunate that the BBC presenter didn't know when to just let the footage speak for itself. Not surprising, though. I call it Morning Drive DJ syndrome. But yeah, hummingbirds flit by so quickly that it's a rare treat to see them in a different context, get to know the other side of them.
Wow, that is a pretty crazy thing to see a humpback whale swallow a couple of ladies, boat and all. I guess he must have spit them out when he realized they weren't the tasty morsel he'd initially thought they were. Either that or they set a fire inside him like Pinocchio and Gepetto.
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