The Essential Nature of Hummingbirds

Hummingbird in Flight

Whenever two hummingbirds strive for dominance at a feeder, whenever they fight over a patch of blossoms, whenever one strafes my head because I’m too close to its food source, I am reminded that hummingbirds, like all birds, are the evolutionary descendants of dinosaurs.

A hummingbird has a T-Rex heart.

Image by Michael Baird via Unsplash.com

T-Rex Bird Lizard

6 Word Stories by Becky and Tor

T-Rex, scales and/ or feathers. Bird lizard

T-Rex, T-Rump tiny hands and brain.

T-Rex, when will science know you?

Who is T-Rex? Science can’t decide.

T-Rex, Thunder lizard, children adore you.

T-Rex, T-Rump itty bitty useless hands.

Predator or scavenger? Hawk or crow?

Kids love T-Rex, long dead danger.

Kids love T-Rex: plush teeth, claws.

T-Rex can’t run. Olympic speed walker.

T-Rex drawing by Tor Harper