Hummers...

(... the nice kind!)
We watched a particularly lovely episode in the PBS "Nature" series last night, called Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air. I have always been enchanted by these truly magical little creatures, and I learned a whole lot more about them from the program. I did not know, for example, that they are found only on the continent of the Americas; that there are close to 350 distinct species; that, inches long themselves, they migrate literally thousands of miles each year; that...