[serpentineshel]

A true story about my hummingbirds: When the feeder in my back yard goes empty, the three hummingbirds that drink from it take turns coming to my back door (which is a French Door) and hovering at the windows there. They will stay there for 10-15 minutes each until I go refill their feeder and then they leave me alone!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Just awesome. Thanks so much for the post!

[cripplecreek]

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.

[My2Cents]

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.)

[b4its2late]

Pretty neat. Thanks.

[dennisw]

 love hummingbirds. And I've only seen them a few times in my life. THANX!

[manwiththehands]

Great post. Fascinating!

[Tijeras_Slim]

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!

[RSmithOpt]

Extremely cool and very good quality photos. It's so nice to see a post every now and then that makes one 'stop and smell the roses', plus, makes me smile. A moment of appreciation of the good things in our lives and the wonders of God's Creation is a true blessing.

Thank you very much!!

[HairOfTheDog]

Hummingbird pics ping!

[Serb5150]

These are some great photos.

[Basselope]

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!

[WestTexasWend]

Great book on a hummingbird that forgot to migrate >>>
A Hummingbird in My House - The Story of Squeak, written by Arnette Heidcamp.