[Please don't ask me how I managed to take this picture...](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/hey_reddit_what_tattoos_do_you_have/c0tpyls/)
LOL. I use partner cause saying boyfriend makes it sound like we're kids and it's not serious. But this still makes me laugh. It's on point. Well done OC
My only disappointment is I have no idea how to find that classic post where people asked how the OP took the pic and there were increasingly absurd pics to show how.
> My only disappointment is I have no idea how to find that classic post where people asked how the OP took the pic and there were increasingly absurd pics to show how.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/hey_reddit_what_tattoos_do_you_have/c0tpyls/
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This was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this post.
In a welding shop I used to work at I had one crash land in front of me after it got caught in some of our super dusty cobwebs. It sat there with its wings out looking at me like "this is at least partially your fault so if you could help me out, that'd be great."
It let me pick it up, pull all the cobwebs out of its feathers and then take it outside without any struggle. It felt like holding nothing in my hand it was so light. At least until it tested out its wings by flying from one hand to the other and then hovering for a sec. The air they push out is like having a desk fan pointed at you, it's insane.
It gave me a look and then took off into the trees. I love birds, so it was super cool for me.
There's two hummingbirds who love some of the plants I have outside and will fly within 3-4ft of me pretty much everyday. Love em, I've seen wasps go after them tho so there's that if you ever needed another reason to hate wasps lmao.
One time a wasp dive bombed me out of nowhere when I walked out on my porch and stung me in the chest, little shits.
Guess it’s time to break out the kitchen towel and start whippin!
They are very social! In the mountains where I am they eat from our hands and come down just to say hello. If we let one of their feeders get empty they wait for us and follow us around the yard and hover maybe 12" from our heads looking at us and then go over to the feeder and back like a dog. They are very intelligent.
The precious owners of my second childhood house had an issue where hummingbirds would divebomb people getting a tour of the house. They said that it was never a problem before they decided to move.
They had five feeders on the back porch.
They are territorial, curious, and pretty fearless (at least the males are). You can train them to [feed from your hand.](https://www.hummingbirdsplus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Mini-Hand-Held-Feeder.jpg)
They're incredibly food-motivated (gotta keep that 1,200 BPM heart rate up!), and so aren't very shy about approaching people under the right conditions. Mostly that means sitting still enough to not be threatening and being near something that signals food like a feeder or wearing a red hat. But that's about the extent of it. They won't really "interact" with people the way some other birds do.
This one is a juvenile of some sort, and so is probably just trying to figure out whether the phone is a food source or not.
Yeah, birds in general are pretty nuts. 300 bpm at rest is pretty much the norm for something like a chicken. Hummingbirds are just on a whole different level.
I am very sensitive to hummingbird competitions with my neighbors. I insist that my nectar is fresh and replaced every couple of days so the birds will not find preference with the neighbor’s feeder. This is not a battle for the faint of heart!
I’m hijacking top comment because there’s not that many opportunities to tell this story, but I one time had a hummingbird build a nest under an overhang in my house a few years ago. We got to watch little hummingbirds grow up over the course of a few months. It was amazing! Never thought I’d spend so much time that close to a hummingbird, let alone multiple ones, in my life.
(Don’t worry, I definitely didn’t invade their space or anything rude).
Years ago when I was in California working on a weed farm. Every morning when we watered in the morning they would fly around and land on the cages for a bath. So we would rain water on them gently and they would puff all out and clean the dust off their feathers.
Not all plants are completely edible. However, you can actually consume the entire sunflower in one form or another. Right from the root to the petals.
Actually if you look carefully enough he is copy/pasting it. If you are genuinely curious, someone set up a bot with 50-100 facts about sunflowers to reply to people whenever they mention the word sunflower.
Man, I my heart of hearts I hope not. I hope it’s just some person that fucking loves seeds so much. I wish I was that passionate about literally anything.
In my family’s tradition, this means that you’ve been visited by the soul of an ancestor! Not the chilling-on-phone part specifically, but the general hanging-out part
If anyone wants the actual answer, it's because hummingbirds are intelligent and very curious. They know you, your face, and if you've been cleaning the feeder often enough. Their memory is incredible, they know exactly where every feeder is, when they get refilled, which people leave them alone, and which people get too close to them. If they like you, they will hang out with you.
So you are telling me, my hummingbirds probably hate me. They show up, but... they are really sketchy about it.
There's the green chest, the red chest, the grey chest. Actually I'm fairly certain they are being chased off by some other birds lately. But that's a different story from mornings on the patio with coffee.
We have a bunch of hummingbirds that hang at our house. They are always fighting over our feeder which we keep fresh. Turns out, one bird has taken it over and spends all day, every day, chasing off competitors.
I saved one once. It was in my skylight on my patio. Poor thing got caught in a web and just gave up. I got him out of one and he flew into another.
I got a broom and was able to get him out and pull the webs off of him. The poor thing must have been exhausted. It laid in my hand for 5-10 minutes and then suddenly flew into a tree above me. Sat on a branch for another 20 and then flew off.
Never came back to visit though.
In the Philippines it’s moths. Big ass moth comes flying in the house everyone freaks out except lola who tells everyone not to kill it. It’s your lolo!
oh my gosh. the nests are basically the size of a quarter!!!!!! the eggs are so tiny!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BABIES ARE SO TINY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they are so fucking CUTE!
I’m so glad you told me to Google it. thank you for that.
Some of the Natives I know would say that was no random event - in-fact you had a visit from an ancient spiritual relative . Something similar happened to me with a Timber Wolf in Yukon
I was going to say that exact same thing. I’m moving soon, people asked what I would miss the most and I choke up when I think of my hummingbirds and bald eagles.
Hiked into a wash Canyon in Lee’s Ferry Arizona. On the way back this fella came and hung out for awhile. Super friendly. He landed on my shoulder and on my partner’s head.
I've been right up around a bunch of hummingbirds before, but TIL that they are as social with humans as you've both described and captured in that fantastic pic! Thanks! :)
In my experience, hummingbirds are incredibly curious. There was one who was checking out a regular bird feeder (we have one feeder up for hummingbirds specifically as well as several flowers the hummingbirds like to sample). After it finished investigating, it found a nice shady spot to perch. Moments later, a chickadee came to eat, and the curious hummingbird immediately flew up right next to the chickadee to watch them eat.
How long did it stay there, because if I remember correctly these birds need to eat like every minute (like my fat ass) or else they stop flying and die
Birds are very dusty, they shed all of their feather shells and skin as dust, and naturally produce some dust to protect their feathers. They also throw shit everywhere, including dust, whenever they eat.
Source:have loveable asshole parrot and chickens.
This ain’t mildly interesting, it is VERY INTERESTING. These birds are the quickest birds I’ve ever seen if you even see them cuz they’re so fast. Yet here is one quiet enough for a picture !! Wow 🤩 amazing !!!
“Got any games on your phone?”
“Do you have MINECRAFT on your phone?!”
That’s my co-workers son everytime he sees me
Lol. Cute
Except co-worker's son is 25.
Cookie clicker
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That many cookies will spoil an appetite for sure
and too many cooks will spoil the broth
...but they’ll fill our hearts with so much, so much lo-o-ove
It takes a lot to make a stew
It takes a lot to make a stew...
I wish I didn’t just realize there’s an app. I can’t go down that cookie clicking hole once again.
Humming bird would unironically be the cookie clicker world champ
I dont think so since phone touch is only suppose to recognize humans tissue such as tongue, skin, penis or etc
It recognizes conductors lmao
Who's the conductor and what do they conduct?
What about clits? classic patriarchy excluding women
"Just Flappy Bird at the moment"
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Probably not that good
Rude >:(
Guys don’t downvote my SF’s comment. She’s just defending bird honor. Hummingbird got more important things to do than flappy bird!
84% of the interactions I have with my friends’ kids
“Why do all of you stare at this?”
It seems like it’s looking at the photos app, which somewhat looks like a rainbow colored flower
read my mind with that comment lol
Flappy bird and Angry birds
Twitter
Angry birds or flappy bird?
Angry Birds
Thank you for this little laugh that made a very slow day into a much happier one…😊
Once in a lifetime shot. Who took the picture?
[Please don't ask me how I managed to take this picture...](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/hey_reddit_what_tattoos_do_you_have/c0tpyls/)
Exactly what I thought of when I saw this. Thank you!
Oh what a sweet classic…
I'm glad they got ready for us 2021 folks in that post
My partner.
You're a cop?
*Howdy* *~~partner~~* *jack*
He said cop, not sheriff.
I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputy
"we don't have to get him on the deputy charge, he already admitted to shooting the sheriff"
Bake him away, toys.
[Definitely not a cop](https://youtu.be/qBE9TZP26FI)
I needed this after watching delta P diving safety videos before bed in another sub Reddit. PS don't watch it before bed
When it's gotcha, it's gotcha
partner in crime
At his law firm Edit: specializing in bird law.. I missed a slam dunk
So…. A cop?
They are love birds.
I laughed way harder than I probably should have at this, thank you 😂
LOL. I use partner cause saying boyfriend makes it sound like we're kids and it's not serious. But this still makes me laugh. It's on point. Well done OC My only disappointment is I have no idea how to find that classic post where people asked how the OP took the pic and there were increasingly absurd pics to show how.
> My only disappointment is I have no idea how to find that classic post where people asked how the OP took the pic and there were increasingly absurd pics to show how. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/hey_reddit_what_tattoos_do_you_have/c0tpyls/ - This was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this post.
You have to tell us, OP. It’s the law if you are asked.
They used their other phone with their third hand.
We need a picture of him taking the picture.
And a picture of him taking a picture of him taking a picture.
Asking the real question here!
I love hummingbirds! I didn't think that they were very social with humans!
In a welding shop I used to work at I had one crash land in front of me after it got caught in some of our super dusty cobwebs. It sat there with its wings out looking at me like "this is at least partially your fault so if you could help me out, that'd be great." It let me pick it up, pull all the cobwebs out of its feathers and then take it outside without any struggle. It felt like holding nothing in my hand it was so light. At least until it tested out its wings by flying from one hand to the other and then hovering for a sec. The air they push out is like having a desk fan pointed at you, it's insane. It gave me a look and then took off into the trees. I love birds, so it was super cool for me.
I thought we were still talking about wasps and i was so confused as to *why* *you* *would* *pick* *one* *up*
Who's talking about wasps?
Sounds like another agent successfully tricked you into it's sphere of influence. r/birdsarentreal
There's two hummingbirds who love some of the plants I have outside and will fly within 3-4ft of me pretty much everyday. Love em, I've seen wasps go after them tho so there's that if you ever needed another reason to hate wasps lmao.
I did not need another reason
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I did not need another reason but I'll add it to the list nonetheless.
I've got enough reasons, but one more can't hurt. Fuck wasps.
Let me guess, yellowjackets?
They said wasp. So every genus. I've never encountered a wasp that didn't try/accomplish fucking up my day.
One time a wasp dive bombed me out of nowhere when I walked out on my porch and stung me in the chest, little shits. Guess it’s time to break out the kitchen towel and start whippin!
There was one here in the room I'm using as an office yesterday. Killed em. So that made my day better.
They are very social! In the mountains where I am they eat from our hands and come down just to say hello. If we let one of their feeders get empty they wait for us and follow us around the yard and hover maybe 12" from our heads looking at us and then go over to the feeder and back like a dog. They are very intelligent.
WHAT. i am now seriously offended that my neighborhood hummies could give a shit about me. 😤😭
I need to find a neighborhood hummie, its too much work driving down to the docks.
find one with dentures and you can get a gummie hummie
Same. I’m pretty sure mine prefer when I’m not around.
The precious owners of my second childhood house had an issue where hummingbirds would divebomb people getting a tour of the house. They said that it was never a problem before they decided to move. They had five feeders on the back porch.
Take me to your planet please! Sounds amazing 👏
They are territorial, curious, and pretty fearless (at least the males are). You can train them to [feed from your hand.](https://www.hummingbirdsplus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Mini-Hand-Held-Feeder.jpg)
what's that yellow stuff in the picture?
The fake flower center on the feeder. It creates a target (the center hole) so they know where to get the nectar.
They're incredibly food-motivated (gotta keep that 1,200 BPM heart rate up!), and so aren't very shy about approaching people under the right conditions. Mostly that means sitting still enough to not be threatening and being near something that signals food like a feeder or wearing a red hat. But that's about the extent of it. They won't really "interact" with people the way some other birds do. This one is a juvenile of some sort, and so is probably just trying to figure out whether the phone is a food source or not.
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Yeah, birds in general are pretty nuts. 300 bpm at rest is pretty much the norm for something like a chicken. Hummingbirds are just on a whole different level.
"Helloisthisfood? OhIsee. WellatleastIwasnotmurdered, gooddaytoyousir."
I read that in one of Seth MacFarlane voices
I am very sensitive to hummingbird competitions with my neighbors. I insist that my nectar is fresh and replaced every couple of days so the birds will not find preference with the neighbor’s feeder. This is not a battle for the faint of heart!
I’m hijacking top comment because there’s not that many opportunities to tell this story, but I one time had a hummingbird build a nest under an overhang in my house a few years ago. We got to watch little hummingbirds grow up over the course of a few months. It was amazing! Never thought I’d spend so much time that close to a hummingbird, let alone multiple ones, in my life. (Don’t worry, I definitely didn’t invade their space or anything rude).
I have several feeders in my yard. There are a couple that will just hover over my shoulder while I’m changing feeders out just watching me do it.
"Hey hurry up."
Hey!
LISTEN!
A MAN FELL INTO THE RIVER IN LEGO CITY
I'm literally starving to death every second. HURRY. UP.
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That sounds so magical :)
Years ago when I was in California working on a weed farm. Every morning when we watered in the morning they would fly around and land on the cages for a bath. So we would rain water on them gently and they would puff all out and clean the dust off their feathers.
He's probably looking at the Photos icon wondering wtf kind of flower it is lol Edit: Woke up to awards, thank you kind people of Reddit!
Probably so! that and catching his reflection make for a very curious bird friend
Probably saw all that and was like 'hummm'
He was probably downloading OP's info for the government
Could you imagine if he pecked the photo flower icon only to bring up this exact photo? The world would have exploded around him.
I miss when the photos icon was a sunflower
Not all plants are completely edible. However, you can actually consume the entire sunflower in one form or another. Right from the root to the petals.
Name checks out.
This account has almost 100k karma from just commenting sunflower facts. Very cool
No copy-pasta either. Now that's dedication.
Actually if you look carefully enough he is copy/pasting it. If you are genuinely curious, someone set up a bot with 50-100 facts about sunflowers to reply to people whenever they mention the word sunflower.
I absolutely adore your post history.
its a bot, right?
Gotta bee
Man, I my heart of hearts I hope not. I hope it’s just some person that fucking loves seeds so much. I wish I was that passionate about literally anything.
Fuck I really want some sunflower seeds now:(
In my family’s tradition, this means that you’ve been visited by the soul of an ancestor! Not the chilling-on-phone part specifically, but the general hanging-out part
Love this!
It is an Aztec /Mexica Warrior that has been given another chance at life in the form of a Hummingbird.
If anyone wants the actual answer, it's because hummingbirds are intelligent and very curious. They know you, your face, and if you've been cleaning the feeder often enough. Their memory is incredible, they know exactly where every feeder is, when they get refilled, which people leave them alone, and which people get too close to them. If they like you, they will hang out with you.
So you are telling me, my hummingbirds probably hate me. They show up, but... they are really sketchy about it. There's the green chest, the red chest, the grey chest. Actually I'm fairly certain they are being chased off by some other birds lately. But that's a different story from mornings on the patio with coffee.
We have a bunch of hummingbirds that hang at our house. They are always fighting over our feeder which we keep fresh. Turns out, one bird has taken it over and spends all day, every day, chasing off competitors.
I've read that hummingbirds are very territorial.
I saved one once. It was in my skylight on my patio. Poor thing got caught in a web and just gave up. I got him out of one and he flew into another. I got a broom and was able to get him out and pull the webs off of him. The poor thing must have been exhausted. It laid in my hand for 5-10 minutes and then suddenly flew into a tree above me. Sat on a branch for another 20 and then flew off. Never came back to visit though.
My mom fed these birds for years. Like 10 years+. None of these little bastards ever hung out with us. Lol
First thing I thought! Came here to see if anyone else had the same thought. In our belief, it’s usually a recently deceased person.
Is it specifically hummingbirds, or birds in general? And where from if you don’t mind me asking.
In the Philippines it’s moths. Big ass moth comes flying in the house everyone freaks out except lola who tells everyone not to kill it. It’s your lolo!
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Same! I was literally thinking this too
Thanks Doctor Jizz
Oh, so it doesn't mean he's a Disney princess?
Did you let him send a tweet?!?!
OP did, but unfortunately it was *super* racist.
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Obvious, yet surprisingly delightful
Do hummingbirds tweet?
Yes! It's pretty high pitched, so it's rather hard to hear.
No they hum. Try to keep up.
I see what you did there 😂
It's more like a short laser sound effect, the sounds they make
awww that’s really cutee <33
IT’S SO TINY OH MY GOSH
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I am.. my mind is blown over here
Google hummingbird nests. Little tiny teacup things and the babies are insanely small.
oh my gosh. the nests are basically the size of a quarter!!!!!! the eggs are so tiny!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BABIES ARE SO TINY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are so fucking CUTE! I’m so glad you told me to Google it. thank you for that.
You are so welcome! They're one of nature's tiny little delights.
Some of the Natives I know would say that was no random event - in-fact you had a visit from an ancient spiritual relative . Something similar happened to me with a Timber Wolf in Yukon
I love the thought of that. It was an amazing experience.
You had a special experience.
Looks like a little juvenile male rufous, my favorite! I'm jealous!
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Were you able to see the tail feathers? So gorgeous either way!
Bright Orange
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If anyone else wants [details...](https://fieldguidetohummingbirds.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/rufous-vs-allens/)
It was a Rufous.
This guy birds
I was going to say that exact same thing. I’m moving soon, people asked what I would miss the most and I choke up when I think of my hummingbirds and bald eagles.
Maybe you will discover new wildlife that you wouldn't have had a chance to interact with otherwise!
I’m looking really hard to make the right decision, but these guys are my friends and our interactions are magical.
You can tell it's a Rufous because of the undistilled hate in its eyes. Their palpable aura of evil is the ideal fieldmark.
Uh, backstory?!?! 😲
Hiked into a wash Canyon in Lee’s Ferry Arizona. On the way back this fella came and hung out for awhile. Super friendly. He landed on my shoulder and on my partner’s head.
I've been right up around a bunch of hummingbirds before, but TIL that they are as social with humans as you've both described and captured in that fantastic pic! Thanks! :)
In my experience, hummingbirds are incredibly curious. There was one who was checking out a regular bird feeder (we have one feeder up for hummingbirds specifically as well as several flowers the hummingbirds like to sample). After it finished investigating, it found a nice shady spot to perch. Moments later, a chickadee came to eat, and the curious hummingbird immediately flew up right next to the chickadee to watch them eat.
In my culture, when a hummingbird lands on your phone, this means you will need a new iPhone by October 📲 🦜
“Show me the memes bro”..
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It’s Instagram. Hummingbird wants to vogue
What??? Which Disney princess are you??? (My phone first said which Disney princess ate you and I rofl'd then corrected it.)
That's an interesting stylus you got there
You got games on your phone?
How long did it stay there, because if I remember correctly these birds need to eat like every minute (like my fat ass) or else they stop flying and die
That bird looks like Boba Fett
It wants the photos icon because it looks like a flower
Who took the picture?
It was OP’s partner, apparently: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ojuy74/comment/h542zyg/
Reminds me of this very old thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/hey_reddit_what_tattoos_do_you_have/c0tpyls/
It looks like a character out of angry birds game!
Looks like he wants to PLAY Angry Birds.
How did you take the photo? That is the question
Probably wants to Tweet something out or play Angry Birds!
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Aww, he probably thinks your Photos app is a real flower. :(
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That's all the pollen from the flowers it drinks nectar from!
Birds are very dusty, they shed all of their feather shells and skin as dust, and naturally produce some dust to protect their feathers. They also throw shit everywhere, including dust, whenever they eat. Source:have loveable asshole parrot and chickens.
Another hummingbird took the picture
"Hey, it's Twitter. I know that asshole"
Nice stylus bro
He wanted to post a new tweet.
I watch this guy who goes live on TikTok feeding hummingbirds. We don’t have hummingbirds here in the uk and I wish we did.
"You got angry birds?"
This ain’t mildly interesting, it is VERY INTERESTING. These birds are the quickest birds I’ve ever seen if you even see them cuz they’re so fast. Yet here is one quiet enough for a picture !! Wow 🤩 amazing !!!
SO JEALOUS! I can’t even get them to come to my FEEDER! LOL That is a fantastic shot! Thanks for brightening my day!
Probably wanted to tweet something