love hummingbirds. And I've only seen them a few times in my life. THANX!
Posted on 09/20/2005 11:35:18 AM PDT by serpentineshel
I was sent the following amazing pictures by my sister in law because of my obsession with hummingbirds. There are 5 pages of pictures to go through and the last picture will put things in perspective for you.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Velpics/HUM/
Just awesome. Thanks so much for the post!
My hummingbirds appear to be loading up on calories before heading south soon. Where did you find the nest? I know there must be some nests here in the yard but I haven't found any yet.
We have a feeder on our front porch. One evening my wife and I were sitting out there, and a hummingbird came and hovered about 16 inches from my wife's face. It then flew over to the feeder, then back to my wife. She then realized that the feeder was out of food. You don't want to mess with an irate hummingbird. (Smart little devils.)
Pretty neat. Thanks.
love hummingbirds. And I've only seen them a few times in my life. THANX!
Great post. Fascinating!
Oh! These aren't my pics...they were sent to me. My hummingbirds stay here year round, believe it or not! I've never founds nests..but I'd love to!
The only nests we've seen here are for our woodpeckers.
You're right! They LOVE bright colors. They fly onto our back porch a lot and into our garage (we have one of those pull cords with a red tag on the end for our garage door opener). But they can be just as bad as a blue jay when they are angry.
I've taken some wonderful digital pictures of them with my camera...it's hard to do but if you're patient, you can get them!
Very cool. We have tons of Hummingbirds in New Mexico. I've seen Blackchinned, Broadtailed, Rufous, Anna's and Caliope at our feeders. It's not uncommon to go through a half gallon of food a day when they're tanking up for migration. You get 20-30 hummers around a feeder or two and the noise is tremendous!
Get a feeder, and thy'll find you if there are any in the vicinity.
Thank you very much!!
That would be great to see!
My sister went to Costa Rica in August and went to a Hummingbird garden. She brought back the most fantastic pictures. I had no idea there were so many different varieties.
Just the 3 that we have in our yard make a lot of noise. One day they'll share, the next day, they are fighting!
You're welcome...They are most wonderful to watch as well. I sit on the porch in the mornings and watch all of the birds and I'm so thankful to be in the house I'm in now. We just moved here in May from a much "busier" neighborhood. We now have a quiet acre with mostly trees, birds and squirrels. I love it.
Hummingbird pics ping!
I think a lot of red flowers and plants draw them.
These are some great photos.
They're brave little birds. If I stand still and hold my hand near the feeder, they'll frequently perch on my fingers. I also have a waterfall at my garden pond, and they take baths there.
Costa Rica is a noted hummer haven. If you get to San Diego, they have a hummingbird aviary at the zoo. Many varieties.
Trumpet vine is particularly good. But providing fresh food in a feeder will bring them back year after year. Their energy use is so high that if they find a good food source, they will remember.
thanks for these pictures! Just awesome!
I saved a hummingbird a few weeks ago, after it'd been trapped in my garage. It had just exhausted itself trying to find its way out (I'd even put brightly colored stuff in the driveway to try to entice it outside to no avail). Anyway, it finally was lying on the garage floor, wings outstretched and eyes tightly shut. When I approached, she didn't even open her eyes. I thought she was dead.
I picked her up, and tried to get her to sit on a little tree branch where the birds will sit between sips at the feeder...she was too weak to open her claws.
I was getting nervous that she'd die soon...and put her down on the brick wall. I ran in the house and came back with a juice box of my son's.
I put that bird's nose in the straw, squeezed up the juice and it drank! She opened her eyes, kept drinking that juice on her own....as i pulled cobwebs and bugs off her wings and tail. All the while, she was sipping that juice with her funny little tube-tongue.
About five minutes of drinking, and she flew straight up in the air and over the house!
So, keep some Capri Sun fruit punch handy....it's loaded with sugar and apparently they made the straws the perfect size for hummingbird noses!
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