Hummingbirds - Bird Talk.

[igor_kavinski]

Sad. Just Nature doing its thing

 

[Muse]

Finally saw a HB at my window feeder a couple days ago. So, it's not a total secret, but last summer there was a fair amount of HB activity. Still, it's a good sign.

 

[Crotulus]

The Tree Tobacco out back was pretty popular earlier this evening. This was all within about a ten minute span.

Unknown female


Male Black-chinned


Male Anna's


The Anna's hanging out with an Allen's or Rufous (not entirely sure which)...


Attack!

 

[bbhaag]

Just spotted our first one! It was feeding on a plant called Humming birds lunch. The plant is in the cuphea genus and they LOVE this thing!! Anyway, sorry for crappy pic...they are so hard to capture.

 

[Stopsignhank]

Here is some more hummingbirds in the wild. Guess these little guys like the natural stuff and not the processed food at the feeder.

https://imgur.com/a/JP5XZ1E

https://imgur.com/a/10e2LUX

 

[Muse]

I've seen a few in the wild on my every other day hikes lately, but only seen maybe 2 in the last 8 weeks or so in my yard. One was feeding at my window feeder. It's nectar's down but I don't know if it's HBs or a leak. Hoping for a revival of HB activity in the yard, it wasn't stellar last year but it was certainly active for maybe 6 months.

 

[Stopsignhank]

I have not had the activity that I had last year. I keep 2 feeders filled and they will last a couple of days. These feeders also have a limited number of uses. After about a year they start to leak and need replaced. Fine with me. Filling them twice a day got to be a bit much.

Story time. After I posed this I could not see the video move on my phone. I thought there was an issue with Imgur so I changed the posts from hidden to public. One has been viewed more than 7,000 times. The thing is, I have no idea where. I also got 15 upvotes and 3 down votes. Why the down votes? Someone have something against hummingbirds?

 

[Muse]

I have not had the activity that I had last year. I keep 2 feeders filled and they will last a couple of days. These feeders also have a limited number of uses. After about a year they start to leak and need replaced. Fine with me. Filling them twice a day got to be a bit much.

Story time. After I posed this I could not see the video move on my phone. I thought there was an issue with Imgur so I changed the posts from hidden to public. One has been viewed more than 7,000 times. The thing is, I have no idea where. I also got 15 upvotes and 3 down votes. Why the down votes? Someone have something against hummingbirds?

I like to quote William Blake. Here's one from the beginning of his most famous work, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (where he has this carved on a cliff!):

How do you know but every bird that cuts the airy way is not an immense world of delight closed to the senses five?

 

[Crotulus]

Neat little article about how hummingbird feeders in CA possibly expanded hummingbird range and morphology.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/former-berkeley-feeders-calif-bird-evolution-20343347.php