https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2020-08/HummerConcquerWaterfalls.gif https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2020-08/HummerConcquerWaterfalls.gifI’m amazed!
A Japanese photographer had a camera lens so fast, he could actually film women’s lips not moving. (this is where I run for cover)
Watching hummers at our feeder is one of my few pleasures in life.
Really cool little birds, and they defend their nectar feeders and flower areas aggressively.
How the aviation engineers wish they could design an aircraft that could perform as hummingbirds do in flight, evasion, speed, braking, hovering and fantastic gyrations. Partly because no human (even in a G suit) could survive the G forces of these kinds of maneuvers. The physics of the stressors on hummingbirds in flight are phenomenal.
Sort of like— “if human beings could lift what an ant does” kind of analysis.
Marvelous little birds. Their annual migration back down to the Mexican Gulf Coast and further south, following the flowers (and sometimes they go straight across the Gulf— with so little reserves on board, a marvel. There are videos on oil derricks in mid ocean who put out feeders and they are swarmed— really helping the little guys make it).
Wife loves them because they eat a LOT of mosquitoes and bugs, beyond their nectar seeking.
“Hummers really do rule!”
Bubba Clintoon agrees.
Amazing
Ours often fly through the hose spray while I am out watering. Some repeatedly.
At our hideout in Arizona, they land on our fingers held out next to their feeder.
Very cool little birds.
We had about a gazillion hummers every summer when we lived in the mountains east of Pocatello, ID. Two years in a row there was a retired USAF vet who came around to trap them, take measurements, band them (really, really tiny bands), and release them. Some days we caught the same ones twice. They are SO tiny - absolute wonders of nature. We don’t have as many in north Idaho but we’ve got plenty!
I’ve tried for years to attract hummingbirds to my home by putting out feeders and growing flowers they like. It wasn’t until this year they showed up. Now I’m seeing them everyday and enjoy it immensely. I never grow tired of watching them.
Just Wow!
whoa! that is nice.
bttt
The hummingbirds will fly through lawn irrigation as a bird bath.
When watering the leaves of my trumpet vines with a waterhose, I've had hummingbirds fly into my spray.
Amazing carbohydrate burning machines.
Amazing!