>I aggree about the wings not being touched. The
>birds are zippy fliers and they can fly backwards
>as fast as forwards. No room to turn with the beak
>inside a flower I guess ...

I remember reading an article in a National Geographic Magazine about some
guy who was into photographing hummingbirds, and he set up a fan beside a
suitable bait, and the birds would fly in from downstream, along the air
current. He got to a point where he had the fan on suck and the birds would
do the same thing. He also tried changing from suck to blow while the bird
was in the air current, the only thing he wasn't prepared to try was going
from blow to suck while the bird was in the air current.

Sorry cannot remember the issue, but it must have been in the 60's or 70's
IIRC.

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