My friend forwarded this URL to me and I know y'all will just love it. A lady chronicled a mamma hummingbird's brood from eggs to fledgling. http://community-2.webtv.net/hotmail.com/verle33/HummingBirdNest/index.html
Mamma hummer raising her brood
GW - - that was great! I was fortunate enough to watch a hummer nest in my neighbor's tree this year. However, it was high enough off of the ground that we couldn't see in the nest. I just love hummers....Nat
christmascactus
Jul 15, 2003
Thank you for sharing this with us.
These little creatures are absolutely amazing!!!
Thanks so very much, GW!
It was almost like being there.
Hummers gotta be one of my favorite parts of summer!
Kim, those are such fantastic pictures!!!! Thank you for linking us to that site. I loved it. We have at least two young hummers feasting at our big plastic strawberry feeder just in the last 2 days. I've looked for the nest but never found it, how lucky somebody was to find a hummer nest and we are so fortunate to get to see so many pictures of the hummer momma and her babies. Sorry only one survived, but that is the way of nature, I guess that is why they have more than one.
Doesn't it make you wonder! Thanks from Montana for the cool pics! We have hummers here but I have never seen a nest anywhere ever. I put out a feeder every year but this year there didn't seem to be as many. But I do love watching them when they come around.
Mom wrote and said she has a couple of young hummers visiting the feeder, and the female comes up onto the porch, within a few feet of mom. I told her to put some cut flowers in a vase near her!
GardenWife, thank you for sharing with us the pictures of the hummer life. At my other place I found several nests over the years but here I have not found even one. I have 5 or 6 feeders around the house so that there won't be quite so much territorial fighting. We have 3 kinds, the tiny Caliope, Blackchinned and the beautiful (when the sun hits just right) Roufous. Also have 2 Oriole feeders. I use at least 5 pounds of sugar a week making nectar for them. For about a month June and part of July, the hummingbirds are not around very much they are gathering aphids Etc. for their babies, but not most have fledged and all are at the feeders. Love to watch them. Donna
Wow! I'd sure love to see your hummers, Donna. That's cool.