Ok I went for my walk today, and remembered to bring my little camera, instead of my cell phone. I went back to the place I saw what I had decided was a humming-bird nest.
I positioned myself under the nest to take some pictures, and to see if I could spot a baby in it, or a parent returning. Well in the branches above the nest I hear an odd hum like sound, and a bit of a chirp. I looked carefully and there was a humming-bird sitting on a branch. I thought it was one of the adults, and that I may be bothering it, and it didn’t want to return to the nest.
Well then I see another humming-bird fly around the first, and then feed it. To my ultimate surprise I found the baby, and got to witness the baby being fed.
I have a group of pictures of this, but they are not the best. I tried to keep the birds in the center of the pictures. The parent is green and blends into the needles well, the baby seems to be black and white.
Enjoy.
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- CHICKEN – Boneless breast of chicken sautéed in butter, wine, mushroom, vegetables
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- Fondue Fred’s is like a secret courtyard.
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- All Fondues served with Salad, Red Potatoes & French Bread
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- Arc Attack
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- ASIAGO – Tasty Italian cheese, imported Swiss cheeses
They are such tiny birds and hard to see sometimes. I rarely find them in their nests, but when in St. Lucia this January, saw many nest sites. I enlarged your photos, so I did see it in the center.
I am fairly sure my excitment at having found them contributed to the blurry pictures. The type of tree they use is in front of my apartment’s deck as well, so I have been watching for evidance of more humming birds on this side of the complex.
You will get better at photographing them. It took a while before I could do it. But I took photos with the point and shoot and was really surprised how they came out perfectly clear. So no worries, they will be non-blurry soon.
Thank you. I am trying to put together a webcam, or inexpensive security camera for my deck, to take pictures of the birdbath when i have visitors, and some of the flowers that a humming bird may visit. I love works in progress. They are always evolving.
Oh how I wish you had a telephoto lens so we could have seen them more close up! Nice blog – it must be tough moving from lots of space to a tiny very manageable one…lots of watering I would suspect.
I am learning some tricks to make it easier to water. I have some tera cota water probes in one group of plants that are working awesome, and I have been experimenting with 16 oz soda bottles in others. The pots I have on the railings prevent me from using the water spikes you screw on to bottles.
We had an Allen’s hummingbird nest in a fern outside the office this spring. They’re so well camouflaged that they can be very difficult to spot against the foliage. Even though I knew where her nest was, every morning it would take me a minute to find it again. You did very well to spot this fledgling!
I don’t think I would have seen it if I had not spoted the movement. The baby was ‘buzzing’ its wings. That is all I can think to call it. It took a moment to see what was doing it, but it was close to the nest, reletivly. I wish I lived on that side of the complex, I would have a camera set up to take a picture or video of the nest regularly.
Wow, you are so lucky to have hummingbirds where you live. I have always been fascinated with them.
We had them at my mother’s in Vermont as well. The nests of the type in Vermont hang down of the branch like a little pocket. I have seen pictures, never found one myself. So this was exciting to me to see one and the baby to boot. I just had a pair of humming birds visit my deck today for some flowers. But I did not have anything set up to take a picture of them. I am working on that.