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Donkees

(33,576 posts) Fri Feb 20, 2026, 04:14 AM 9 hrs ago

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Spangled Coquette - Southern Ecuador (Original Post) Donkees 9 hrs ago OP

'What immortal hand or eye Easterncedar 9 hrs ago #1

Ecuador has something like 125 kinds of hummingbirds. Danascot 2 hrs ago #2

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1. 'What immortal hand or eye

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 04:21 AM

9 hrs ago

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?’ came into my head.
Magically, weirdly beautiful. Thank you!

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2. Ecuador has something like 125 kinds of hummingbirds.

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:35 AM

2 hrs ago

Here in the northeast we have one, the ruby-throat. (Not that I'm complaining. We get a lot of pleasure watching our ruby-throat visitors.)

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3. And in recent years, vagrant Rufous Hummingbirds have been visiting the northeast