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Bob H
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One of the two eggs hatched TODAY! It's soooo small. I'll try to get a photo posted soon.
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Bob - how do you get close enough to take pictures without annoying the mom? Every time I got close to the nest last year, the mother hummer would be
in my face immediately.
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by danaeb
Bob - how do you get close enough to take pictures without annoying the mom? Every time I got close to the nest last year, the mother hummer would be
in my face immediately.
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Dana,
I zoom in. She seems to know that I will not harm her. I stand still for quite a bit and then slowly move in. You seem to learn how close you can
get and stop there.
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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So cool Bob! what a neat experience to watch that!Waiting for the next pics of babies!!
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Here is a photo of the newly hatched Hummingbirds in our back yard avocado tree.
Bob H
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Congratulations Bob on the birth of your babies! Watch closely now... they'll be feathered before you know it, then quickly crowding the nest. I
could hardly believe how quickly ours went from barely having any down to flying away. Please please keep the photos coming.
Nena
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Natalie Ann
Bob - This particular hummer will sometimes return to/use the same nest the following year. Mine returned and seemed to search and search for her old
nest... was very upset and vocal about its absence. After several days of "mourning", she began work on another. |
Nena, I left for vacation before the babies left the nest. But my daughter said it was only a few days before she saw them flying around the nest and
the feeder. Then a couple of days later the momma started destroying the nest. Little by little the nest is being destroyed. Today there is only a
thimble full of nest left on the branch. Is this normal?
Hopefully, a new nest will be built next year and I can follow and photo the entire process.
Bob H
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Natalie Ann
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My goodness, Bob, my hummer surely did not do that. In fact, she seemed quite attached to that empty nest and could often be seen sitting on the wire
from which she watched the nestlings.
I had read that Calliope hummers sometimes return to use the same nest the following year... so I was quite protective of ours. Then one day during a
team yardwork effort, someone mistakenly pruned that limb from my butterfly tree (no one wants to own up to having done it - grin).
It didn't present too much of a problem at first, but early this year when the mama was again insterested in feathering her nest... what a racket went
up - for days! She sat on the wire and raged, she flew to where that branch was no longer and she raged. She buzzed me while I was working in the
flowers beneath the tree... buzzed with intent to do damage.
I was not home for her nesting time this year, so do not know where she might have nested. I do hope to lure her back for the 2008 show.
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Bob H
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NA... It's taken several weeks for her to destroy the old nest. She's amost done with it.
I'll keep you posted on what happens next year. Thanks for the great response, as usual.
Bob H
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Thank you all for the words and pictures in this thread. You guys really LOVE birds! It's inspiring me to become more observant and learn more about
the feathered creatures I see all around our new home in Todos Santos. I've seen many species but hardly even know their names, much less of their
behaviors... I needed a new hobby in this new, more tranquil life... thanks again...
--Amir
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yesterday while at a friend's graduation from SDSU (Latin Studies) i noticed a hummingbird buzzing around the tree i was standing next to. upon closer
examination i noticed the nest and her two babies.
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the other folks standing around probably thought i was nuts. these are the only 2 out of 9-10 that came out.
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...years ago, when John Sturges lived in Posada, he had a nest of hummingbirds hatch behind his house. They'd sit on the clothesline and drink a drop
of hummingbird nectar from your finger. They were not 'humming' flyers at first, either. They were plenty clumsy in the air and numerous times we'd
feel a 'thunk' on the bill of our hat where they had crash landed. It was great to have close contact with them until they were full fledged
'hummers'...now, if I could only learn how to scan a photo so I could send them along.
Any oldtimers out there who remember some (any) of John's movies..???
That's probably fodder for another thread, anyway...Can you imagine the outcry today if someone tried to kill sharks the way they did when he made
"The Old Man and the Sea"..???
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Bob H
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Looks like they LIKE avocado trees!
Bob H
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