2012 Ruby Throated Hummingbirds

ooo....NICE Iris!!

Lovely capture.

Thanks Nanny and MajiA! .. Got the male too...And took a shot of one zinging across the yard, But I had the shutter speed set to low so it didn't come out anywhere near what I was hoping for.

A few more recent ones..

Great capture Iris.

Glad to see more of you are finding your hummers at the feeders. Great photos everyone.

i had my first female of the year yesterday, and again today. She seemed very thirsty yesterday. Maybe she had just arrived

Congratulations on the female!

Thanks. It's nice to see any this time of year as they just pass through. But my fall migration is improving every year.

I want to share with you the success we had with a homemade feeder we put up yesterday. Now I just need to figure out how to make a homemade ant moat.

We were trying to come up with the best solution to hang it and my husband thought of duct tape. It works. LOL

Nicely done Chillybean... there is nothing that duct tape can't do :)

Very inventive, Chillybean. Just a thought with the duct tape. Is the inner surface of the duct tape still sticky or have you double sided it, i.e. put sticky side to sticky side so there's no exposed sticky? Just thinking that if one of them wandered around the top, it might inadvertently get stuck on the tape. :)

Hello Margaret. That was my first thought when my husband showed it to me before I had a good look, but nope, he already thought of it and there is no exposed stickiness.

Brilliant. I felt a bit awkward asking.

Oh, no problem. I thought it was a good question. Because I blogged about this, I should make note of that in case others try this. We found the instructions on another blog, but had to improvise how to hang it. Any time we use string, it breaks in the strong winds.

Chillybean'

What did you use to fasten the bottle to the botton? Could you direct me to the instructions? I have made them with wine bottles and decorated and hung them with colored craft wire. But the darned feeder tubes I got on line leak or drip all the time. I love wire wrapping for jewlery etc and this was fun to be creative etc but the feeder part doesn't work right.
Would appreciate your info
Thanks, Lynda

Lynda,
This was the link I came across doing a Google search when looking for instructions to make a homemade feeder.
http://almostunschoolers.blogspot.com/2011/04/homemade-hummingbird-feeder.html

I tried writing explaining it all, but I was making no sense, so just go to the link above. It really is incredibly easy. The hummies are coming to it daily.

Thanks, I appreciate your help. I had just looked at the last few post so had not got the info on how.
Thanks again for your time.
Lynda

The hummers have been here for a while, I just haven't taken many photos of them.

Here's a few I took.

Love your little guy Burn.

I know what you mean burn....I just find myself watching and enjoying them. The females are coming around more now here. Nice photos!

Burn... lovely images.

Thank you.

Very Nice Burn!!

Here is a video clip I made practicing with the video feature on my camera:

http://www.jhowdy.com/Avian/Hummingbirds/22263255_wc8KXs#!i=1931852613&k=DqNt79S&lb=1&s=A

A few other clips and images here: http://www.jhowdy.com/Avian/Hummingbirds/22263255_wc8KXs

Very nicely done jhowdy.

Great job jhowdy!!!

Thank you. Opens up a whole new opportunity to capture our tiny friends.