Hi John and Everyone,

That is facinating. I can even picture all that  happening.

I even saved it.

Thanks.

Blessings,

Pat Ferguson

At 11:51 AM 4/15/2011, you wrote:
>Here is a snip from one of David Cloud's news letters.
>
>THE AMAZING HUMMINGBIRD (Friday Church News 
>Notes, April 15, 2011, www.wayoflife.org 
>[log in to unmask], 866-295-4143) - The 300 
>species of hummingbirds vary in size from the 
>giant hummingbird, with a length of about eight 
>inches (20 cm.), to the bee hummingbird, with a 
>length of about two inches (5 cm.). The 
>hummingbird’s wings beat a figure eight pattern 
>which allows it to hover and fly backwards (by 
>moving the wings in a circular path over its 
>head), sideways, and even upside down. It can 
>beat its wings up to 200 cycles per second and 
>can reach speeds of 50 miles per hour. The wing 
>muscles necessary to drive this flight system 
>represent up to 40% of the bird’s total body 
>weight. Its long, thin beak is designed to feed 
>on the nectar of flowers; its tongue has two 
>furrows that it uses to store the nectar. The 
>tongue can go in and out at a rate of 13 times 
>per second, and is stored by being curled up at 
>the back of the bird’s head. Its tongue is also 
>fringed so it can sweep insects from inside 
>flowers. “It cannot survive on nectar alone, but 
>also needs protein from eating insects. Without 
>its special tongue it could never catch these” 
>(A Closer Look at the Evidence, July 14). One 
>type of hummingbird is the fastest diving bird 
>on earth. “A peregrine falcon diving toward its 
>prey reaches a relative speed of 200 
>body-lengths per second. This is close to the 
>207 body-lengths that the space shuttle travels 
>as it enters our atmosphere. Thus, the peregrine 
>falcon was thought to easily be the fastest 
>dare-devil bird on Earth. Scientists have now 
>discovered that a little pink male hummingbird 
>called Anna’s Hummingbird is the real Top Gun 
>among the birds. As part of its mating ritual, a 
>male hummingbird will try to impress a female 
>with his speed and acrobatics. First, the male 
>will fly up to about 90 feet above the ground. 
>Then, he begins a power dive. As he nears the 
>female, he pulls up, ascending again. During 
>that near-miss pull-up he experiences more than 
>nine times the force of gravity. His relative 
>speed during descent is 385 body-lengths per 
>second. That’s almost twice the peregrine 
>falcon’s relative speed; it’s faster than the 
>space shuttle entering the Earth’s atmosphere 
>and is more than twice the relative speed of a 
>jet fighter running with afterburners” 
>(http://www.creationmoments.com/radio/transcript.php?t=2889). 
>One type of hummingbird can fly 500 miles nonstop over the Gulf of Mexico.
>
>
>
>John
>Currently in Ocala, Florida Partly Cloudy, 80°F Wind:ESE-110° at 7mph
>e-i-e-i-o: A gross misspelling of the word 'farm'.
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