Interspecies Communication
by Jens Kruse
Last night,
as I was sitting on my deck,
a humming bird,
flew over to me from its feeder
and hovered
four inches from my face.
For many long seconds
the thumb-sized
bronze-green-gray
Calypte anna
looked me in the eye.
Its fierce stare spoke plainly:
“You lazy clod,
you haven’t re-filled my feeder
with fresh nectar in two weeks.
It’s fermented
and I only still drink it
because it gives me
a nice buzz.”
I raised my wine glass and said:
“I am sorry, and you are welcome.”
Anna displayed her tail feathers,
called “tchik tchik tchik”
and buzzed off.
© Jens Kruse
Buzzed off, buzzed. :-)
i can picture her scolding you – and you captured that sound they make perfectly when they talk to us. The Anna’s, survivors of our winters, capture our hearts. Nicely done!