Attacked by bees

I've never ever been attacked by bees before. A thousand times when a feeder gets covered with bees I remove it and replace it with a fresh one. Today my feeders were all fine except one was covered with bees. We've had wind gusts occasionally, so I figured wind had tilted it. I just reached my hand through the swarm and was taking the feeder down when they attacked.

In hindsight, the feeder looked a little different than normal. They were swarming all over the feeder, not just the base area like I normally see. Maybe because I have my feeders covered with satellite dishes now, they were going to start a hive there. I'm sure there must have been a queen in the swarm. During the attack I ran and got into my car so I was shut inside with dozens of the pursuing devils. I managed to get the situation under control. Then when I went back to spray the dish with Raid, I got attacked again. The whole thing was an experience for sure. Once in a lifetime, I hope.

I was covered with clothes all over except the hands and face. Ended up with 4 stingers in me, one inside my nose, one on my cheek, and two on my hand. Don't know how many bites above that I actually got. Since I'm not allergic to them I probably wouldn't have reacted to any that didn't leave the stinger, but took a benadryl just to be on the safe side.

I enjoyed watching a male Lucifer Hummingbird bathing under the sprinkler this morning. It's extremely hard to get a decent shot of that activity. They move so fast. I can't focus that fast. But I set the camera on a greater depth of field and did my best. This is the only one that turned out even half-way.