![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The days get shorter and it’s time once more for the hummingbirds to fly south though not all will make it safely to their destination. And there they set up home and later in the summer,Ī little girl walking towards the park spies on the grassy verge, evidence of ‘a visitor from Granny’s garden’. Through the USA and all the way to Canada. ![]() We then follow the birds’ migration route over several double spreads all the way from over the Gulf of Mexico, Seated in her Grandmother’s lap, the girl is asked to “Keep still” as they proffer bowls of water to the birds and come they do ‘Tz-unun! Tz-unun!’ flashing their feathers and beating their wings. Using the framework of the loving relationship between a Mexican grandmother and her granddaughter, we experience the migration pattern of such birds that are soon to depart, bound for the north, perhaps as the grandmother tells the child, “they’ll visit you in New York City?” Nicola Davies is a champion of wildlife and the creature she has chosen here is a tiny one, smaller than a thumb and lighter than a penny, the ruby-throated hummingbird. ![]()
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