Re: Poor photo, but tells a common story.

Charlie wrote:
> http://slothaby.googlepages.com/humrbee380.jpg

Interesting picture (and not that poor in my opinion).  From the picture 
name it appears that you think that is a bird and a bee--I think it is a 
bird and wasp.

Sometimes I see interesting interactions between birds and insects.

One of my syrup feeders hangs on a wire (to get into the window-view) 
and is popular with ants.

The Gold Finches use the wire for staging to the thistle feeder nearby.

Every now and again a bird will be "sitting" on  the vertical wire when 
an ant crawls over the bird's foot.  The bird will flip his foot several 
times to shake the ant off of it, then he grabs the ant in his bill and 
throws it with some energy as if to say "I told you:  Stay off of my
foot!"
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