The first time I ever saw a humming bird, I was about five or six years old. I saw it at a distance, but the way it was moving (sort of hovering and darting) and the buzz of it's fast-moving wings, I thought it was some kind of huge bee!

Scared the hell out of me!

I dashed inside and slammed the screen door and my mother asked me what was wrong. As I complained incoherently, she looked out the door and said, "Oh, that's just a little humming bird. That won't hurt you."

I'd never heard of a humming bird before. I watched the way it was moving from flower to flower, just like a bee, and I wasn't gonna buy that for a minute!

Don Firth

P. S. Someone has to do this, so

Why do humming birds hum?

(Okay, all together now. . . .)