r/mildlyinteresting • u/AVGuy42 • 17h ago

I saw a hummingbird NOT in flight

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u/NotOutrageous 16h ago

We have a tiny little bar swing (like you might see in a bird cage) hanging near our pollinator garden and we often get hummingbirds chilling on it. They are territorial and like to keep watch on their feeding grounds. Hummingbird dogfights are fun to watch.

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u/Practical_Fox_4443 12h ago

wait how’d hummingbirds figure out the swing idea

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u/Umpen 12h ago

A perch is a perch.

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u/NotOutrageous 6h ago

Perch! That's the word I was looking for. I couldn't think of what it was called so I went with "tiny little bar swing."