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Little hummers swarm the Cokers' feeders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the retired couple\u00a0saw no reason\u00a0to evacuate their rural Texas home — despite raging wildfires all around them — they looked out the window and were astonished. Their farm had become an oasis for\u00a0refugee hummingbirds.<\/p>\n

First dozens, then hundreds swarmed hungrily\u00a0around Don and Pat Coker’s sugar-water hummingbird feeder.<\/p>\n

The frenetic little birds took turns, says Pat. “It was like they were eating in shifts.”<\/p>\n

So, while\u00a0everybody else was battling\u00a0grassfires raging\u00a0in Bastrop County, Texas, Don and Pat rolled up their sleeves and saved the tiny emerald hummers. It meant\u00a0investing in\u00a0extra feeders, sugar and distilled water .<\/p>\n

Don says it gave him and Pat a memory that will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n

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