A beautiful read.

the hummingbird, like no other bird among the thousands of known avian species, can fly backward and upside-down, and can hover. It is hovering that most defiantly subverts the standard physics of bird flight: head practically still as the tiny turbine of feather and bone suspends the body mid-air — not by flapping up and down, as wings do in ordinary bird flight, but by swiveling rapidly along the invisible curvature of an infinity symbol. Millions of living, breathing gravity-defying space stations, right here on Earth,

One really beautiful moment in Encanto is when Maribel is singing Waiting On A Miracle and there is a freeze frame of her with a hummingbird hovering.

Also, I love the line mentioning both butterflies and hummingbirds. There is a deep beauty in the crossover mention in that line lacking any insult or discrimination. Delicate, eccentric wondrous Nature magic In Cahoots.

Amazing! We are thrilled to help feed the hummingbirds who come each year to our garden. We are humbled by their presence. They are pure magic.