II. Introducing Bella

Bella is a beloved girl bird from the Rainforest Amazon.  She came a few years ago.  At that time, a supersize bully Freddie was insisting on occupying one feeder as its own by chasing off all other birds from dawn to dusk every single minute of every single day.  When Freddie was not busy chasing birds who did not know better to go to other feeders, Freddie would sit on the feeder alone whole day long.  At one point, Freddie was diagnosed as being in love with its feeder. As it turned out, Freddie was one of the only two bully birds over the years exhibiting such extreme behaviors. Hummingbirds are of different personalities and genetic make-up, no different from other live forms.  Freddie’s peculiar and persistent behavior was the inspiration for the photographic documentation to compete who (Freddie or camera) would quit first. As a result of this guarding behavior, Freddie became very lonely. Bella from the Rainforest Amazon came (in two business days) to be its girlfriend.  Eventually, Freddie ran away, after nearly 5 months, and without Bella.  The lesson Freddie left was that the feeders must be placed together to deter the misguided bullies.  When a bully finds it cannot fight so many birds within its territory, instead of “fight”, the bully would “flight” and leave town. But for hummingbirds, there is a third option, i.e. “eat”.  After fighting and chasing other birds and still not claiming the feeder, the bully would sit down and eat as if nothing had happened.  Since placing feeders together, there have been bully birds, but only for a few minutes or a few hours before things quieted down. After Freddie left, Bella has become a local legend and admired by all hummingbirds visiting every day. Other objects had been placed on the feeder, but the birds paid absolutely no attention to any, except to Bella.  Bella started as Pink Bella because she had outfits with different shades of pink.  She later acquired new styles wearing orange and blue.  Now, she is just Bella.