Humming Bird BABYS !

extractor · Apr 4, 2011

The Humming birds have been getting after the dogs of late. I figured they must have a nest near by. I started snooping the bushes and spotted there nest and 2 babys still in it!
The nest is only about 5 feet off the ground and hidden in plain sight.

Unicorn · Apr 4, 2011

What lovely clear pictures those are. It's the cats you have to watch when birds nest so low down.

Felinepeachy · Apr 4, 2011

WOW those are AWESOME pics extractor!!! How cool that you found them. :headbang:

NaturalJWL · Apr 4, 2011

GREAT pics !!! :icon_thumright:

Most hummingbird nest are so small most people never see them.

Thanks for the pics. :hello2:

extractor · Apr 4, 2011

NaturalJWL said:
GREAT pics !!!

Most hummingbird nest are so small most people never see them.

Thanks for the pics.

The nest isn't much bigger than a golf ball.

rginn · Apr 4, 2011

Thanks for sharing, cause most folks will never see that in their lifetime. Very good pics.

mainer · Apr 6, 2011

Those are great pics. Thanks for sharing. :icon_thumright:

cntrydncr1 · Apr 6, 2011

awesome photos! thanks for sharing!

extractor · Apr 6, 2011

Thanks Everyone for the replys! :icon_thumleft:

Here are a couple pictures I took late yesterday.

Felinepeachy · Apr 6, 2011

Extractor, those pictures are superb!!!!. I love them and I hope you keep posting updates. :notworthy:

extractor · Apr 6, 2011

Felinepeachy said:
Extractor, those pictures are superb!!!!. I love them and I hope you keep posting updates.

I'm not sure how many more pictures I can get. They are big enough to leave the nest any day now.
I hope to get a picture of one on the edge of the nest ,right before it's first flight .

Chug And Red · Apr 6, 2011

OMG!!!! Those are incredible pictures, so that's what they look like when they are still!!!!!

They are such cute and busy little guys, we have a couple that we always know when they are coming, you can here them, well, at least I can, Chug can if he wears his hearing aid. :wink:

Thank you for sharing this rare delight, I have never seen a nest, and I enjoy these little birds so much! You put such a huge and much needed smile on my face!!!!

Now the only problems is which one to use as my background this week

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Thanks Chug, now you got me doing it too!!!! :tongue3:

Please keep us posted on how they come along, your pictures are so wonderful!!!! :thumbsup:

Red

My fingers and toes are crossed that you can get in a couple more pics before they leave, and some prayers are thrown in too!!!! :laughing7:

extractor · Apr 7, 2011

Ok this morning I missed the one that left,,, now there is only one in the nest. It is hard to believe that there were 2 baby birds in the nest yesterday cause this guy takes up most of it him self.

Tuberale · Apr 7, 2011

Those pics are worthy of National Geographic IMO. Thanks for sharing.

I would have guessed it was too cold in your area for tiny hummers yet. What flowers are blooming there?

Here in PDX have lots of Anna's but have only seen one nest and the parent's weren't too happy about that being found. See one daily outside my computer window feeding on Andromeda and rhododendron.

extractor · Apr 7, 2011

Tuberale said:
Those pics are worthy of National Geographic IMO. Thanks for sharing.

I would have guessed it was too cold in your area for tiny hummers yet. What flowers are blooming there?

Here in PDX have lots of Anna's but have only seen one nest and the parent's weren't too happy about that being found. See one daily outside my computer window feeding on Andromeda and rhododendron.

Ha. It would be easyer to say what Isn't blooming Here. The purple leaf plum trees bloomed 3 weeks ago. Right now in our yard the Lemmon tree, Rosemary, Hawthorn and the bearded Iris are all in bloom. Last Thursday / Friday it was right at 90 degrees here at our house. Here in the lower Southwest USA , a lot of the humming birds stay around year round. We have 2 humming feeders here that we fill up year round to keep the humming birds going.

extractor · Apr 8, 2011

Well they are both gone from the nest. The nest is made from spider webs.
The single humming bird is the mom.
The last picture the mom is on the upper part of the branch feeding the baby.