Remembering Rex 29

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How do they do it? Weighing barely more than three grams, yet every fall Ruby-throated hummingbirds fly south for the winter. It's a flight that takes them across the Gulf of Mexico in one non-stop, over night dart over the sea. 

In August 2016, I found one laying on a bench in great distress. It had apparently flown into a window. Picking it up, I comforted it, hoping to nurse it back to health and flight readiness. And Rex McDaniel was there to capture it all with his camera. 

Click: dazed and confused



Photograph/graphic by his friend Chuck Cooper. 

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