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"food, of course, is what keeps the birds here for four to five weeks." in spring, mrs. hagar says, the birds feed on nectar and insects caught in the flowers of the trumpet vines, honeysuckles, coral bean, hibiscus and turk's cap. in this area", she says, "one can sit all day in a car and look down,
not up, and watch the birds flying into and out of blossoms, perching on small twigs and catching minute insects by running out their long tongues. a rare sight." but how they come and why they come this way, where they leave for mexico and central america, only professional ornithologists can tell....
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