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To: Grammy

It’s hard to get photos of hummingbird nests if they usually build then 30 ft off the ground

Do you have a feeder and some plants that they go to in your garden?


26 posted on 06/17/2009 6:37:02 AM PDT by dennisw ("stealth tribal warfare" is what the Sotomayor nomination is about)
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To: dennisw

Our house is built on a steep slope and our property is heavily wooded. The front door is at ground level, and so is the basement door in the back. That means our 2nd story is actually 3 stories high in the back of the house. It is kind of like living in a tree house.

8-)

The nest is even with the windows on the back of our 2nd story.... about 30 feet high.

The hummer feeder is on our front porch. We don’t have a lot of flowers, since we are in deep shade most of the time. Our hostas used to bloom pretty well, but the deer think that I planted them a salad bar, so no flowers this year.

We have kept tabs on momma hummer, and she leaves the nest for up to an hour. At one point she spent a lot of time sitting near the feeder just primping and eating. I think she is getting other food for her chicks.

One year during a drought we had about 20 hummers surrounding a 1 quart feeder. They didn’t even bother fighting to defend the feeder, just waited for their turn. They would empty the feeder every day.


30 posted on 06/17/2009 8:44:20 AM PDT by Grammy (politics... poli ( many ) tics ( blood suckers ))
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