Birds & Blooms’ Friday Fun Photo for July 20, 2012: Hummingbird and Honeybee by Keith Black of Biglerville, Pennsylvania. Keith writes, “Just prior to a thunderstorm, I noticed some serious competition at our hummingbird feeder between a female ruby-throat and a honeybee.”
If only they could talk, what would kind of conversation do you think you might overhear between this bird and a bee?
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“Go ahead Punk, make my day”
Hummingbird: Excuse me, I am in kind of a hurry. I always pick the wrong feeder….
Hey no fair I was next!
Bee-kind! Bee-have or Bee-ware!
Can’t reach, come on man, please move, it’s my turn!
KMart shoppers…there is no waiting at feeder 3.
HA!!!
Morning chat at the watercooloer
Buzz off!
“Don’t even think about it. I was here first, and you have to wait your turn.”
OKAY, it’s my turn now!
What’s a little nibble among friends?!
Please hurry up buddy, there is a line forming.
move over Squirt This is my watering hole
” Look Bumble, I know I said I would share. But can you a least LEAVE some for the rest of us?”
“Did you not hear NEXT?”
Little guys first!!!
Hey!! I’m not telling you again, I said this was my feeder!!!!
Move along Mr. Bee ,this “ain’t no bee feeder”!!
“Ummm excuse me, but I BEElieve you cut in line ! “
ok what is this happy hour. move along
BEE GONE!!
Move over”BEE cause this is MY food!!
It ain’t about being big! (Tiny feeder, tiny bird, tiny bee!)
Oh, I insist, after you.
This is my feeder! Move it or lose it!
“Back off ba-bee, I’m a lot bigger than you”.
Excuse me it’s a hummingbird feeder, are you a hummingbird??? No…
“Excuse Me!!!!–uh, you may not have realized but red is my favorite color and this is MINE”!
“Buzz aside Buster! This is my spot!”
move it move it MOVE IT!
“Never liked waiting in line! Move along, no hovering….”
Hey, this is a bee free zone!!
Oh geez, I can’t BEElieve it! Now I have to take a number and wait in line.
are you blind this is a hummingbird feeder, find your own juice
Buzz off buster, this is MY chow line!
Would you hurry up? I’m dying of thirst back here!
I guess that I will have to wait my turn to get that delicious nectar. Does the nectar taste as good as it looks? Just what I need on such a warm day (a cooling drink) to rejuvenate my wings.
Hey, This isn’t a public water hole!!!!!!!!!!!
Two tequila sunrises please…hold the straws
You need to take a number and get in line.
It is nice to SHARE!!! The ‘rights’ that we human often fight about is one of the reasons that cause us so many problems.
Yoe, Buddy. Can ya speed it up? The wings are getting tired.
Dinner for Two? Right this way.
” I hate waiting in line”.
Gentlemen hummers before bees!
Oops, I mean ladies before gentlemen! (Didn’t look closely.)
O.K. I’ll share, but please hurry, I’m really thirsty and gettin’ tired
TGIF! It’s five o’clock somewhere. Might as well be here.
Prices must have dropped again. A line is starting to form!
i can’t wait forever, hurry up!
That Micro Mini took my parking space!
Hey, just wait your turn !
“This B-Line (NOT Bee Line) is ‘for the birds’–so Buzz Off!”
Move over shorty, its my turn !
Um excuse me, but what kind of hummingbird are you;beat it I’m bigger than you !
Hurry up, buster!
Happy Hour for Hummies Only!
Buzz off-I need a drink too!!!
Honey, I really do love you, but I can’t take you home to my parents. They just don’t get the birds and bees.
Ex-cuuse me! Move over little one. Your beak isn’t long enough.
Excuse me if you don’t mind me saying so, I think they put this feeder here for me, now beeeet it please!!!!!!!
Just because you’re smaller doesn’t mean you should be first!!! This is a hummingbird feeder — No BEES allowed!
Can’t go anywhere without having to wait in line.
Move over Fuzzy!
BEEat it!
BUZZZ OFF, THIS IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Ok… a little more to the left… no right. Ok. now… a little more…
The sweetest things in life are worth sharing.
Move over dude, I have reservations for right now!
Quit “bugging” me when I’m trying to eat!!
Sorry, Mr. Bee but this is my territory, so buzz off.
Early Bird always gets the worm~ but the nectar line is Beezy!!
bee nice and share.
Excuse me this is a Humming Bird Pit Stop not for Bees!!!
If I could just turn this yellow wheel a little more, I believe we could let more of this fruit drink flow out.
Congrats!!! I think we have a winner
move over , mines bigger than yours
Buzz- Hum- Yummmmmmmmmmmmmm!
How sweet it is!!!!
Hey,”bee” first.
Alright………..Honey……………don’t be such a sugar hog. there’s enough for us both.
Excuse me, there’s only one feeder port. Can you move now?
Hey dude, someone is messing with your queen.
No Problem…I can wait my turn….I float like a butterfly, but I don’t sting like a bee….
“Hey, BEANO. you’d better start praying…