The Country Mice

This fellow wandered into the house yesterday. Sounding a lot like a big bumblebee, he hovered in the middle of the kitchen, looking for a way to return outside.

Other birds often find their way into the house when a door is left open — usually the greedy Steller’s Jays in search of peanuts — and flutter against the glass, seeking a way through the transparency.

This hummer, conversely, simply buzzed and darted, then drifted down to the windowsill where I enclosed him in my hand and then passed him over to The Princess for his little photoshoot.

Light as a feather indeed.