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Hummingbirds are the shrimp of the air. There is a business idea in here somewhere.

Last weekend, I learned three things about hummingbirds that surprised me - sort of. The first thing I learned is that they are deceivingly slow. They seem fast as they dart from feeder to tree and tree to feeder but the only thing really fast is the beating of their wings.

The second thing I learned is that cats are the number one predator of hummingbirds. I checked this fact out at Hummingbird Society and it’s true. Hummingbirds do two things wrong that get them caught. They behave fairly predictably and they hover in place for long periods of time - easy pickin’s for a kitty kat, which brings us to the third thing I learned…

Well, I didn’t learn it really. I guess I am just theorizing. Hummingbirds would be great deep fried! Finger lickin’ good hummingbirds. Imagine the little buggers with some batter and spices dropped in a kettle of boiling oil. Mmm, good. You could remove the beak before you eat them or hold on to it and bite the body off. Whatever you prefer - it’s your dinner and they are definitely finger foods.

KFC should look into this. It would certainly get those pesky protesters off their corporate back about how they grow chickens in little cages and mistreat them, blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Forget hot wings and popcorn shrimp. The wave of the future is deep fried hummingbird poppers! I can see people lining up to buy buckets of extra crispy deep fried hummingbirds. I bet they are good stuffed in a jalapeño with some cheese, too.

Here’s your first promo idea, KFC, so listen up! Serve hummingbird poppers in an actual hummingbird feeder! After your diners munch on the yummy little delectables they can go home and set up their very own feeder (with the KFC logo, of course).

You can learn more about hummingbirds at Hummingbirds.net or Hummingbirdsociety.org.

By the way, most birds (hummingbirds included) are federally protected. Killing them would be bad.

Here is a great blog about birding.

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