As proof, his portrait of a hummingbird, titled “The Pollinator,” won top honors at an art contest hosted Saturday at Ogden Nature Center as part of its Earth Day festival. For inspiration, he just had to look into his own yard.
“We put out feeders and there’s a horn and they suck out the liquid,” said Joey, a sixth-grader at Lomond View Elementary School. His picture showed a red-and-green bodied hummingbird pulling nectar from orange flowers, demonstrating how these tiny birds help sustain life by moving pollen from one flower to another in exchange for a sweet meal.