I always thought of cats as being totally aware of their surroundings,
even when asleep.  Well, this morning Maryweather was meatloafing on
the cat shelf at the north kitchen window - perhaps she was planing
her next hunt, but whatever, she was totally imersed in her own
thoughts ... and totally oblivious to the hummingbirds at the feeder
outside the window ... eight inches from her head.  Sure, it's a
double-pane window, but hummingbirds are *loud* - she just about *had*
to have heard them.