hummingbird nest

[My Foot Smells]

got an attachment of being on the lookout for hummingbird nest if you plan to prune trees and bushes this time of year (I don't generally)...

must confess, I've never seen a HB nest before, someone might be yanking my leg, but if true this dude is tiny. love the HB on the prop. though and have a couple of feeders. have seen some this year, so just passing along this PSA and image for identification...

[heirloomtomaguy]

Its the real deal we had one in our tree right in front of our picture window. The kids loved watching the whole process

[My Foot Smells]

Originally Posted by heirloomtomaguy

Its the real deal we had one in our tree right in front of our picture window. The kids loved watching the whole process

wow, that's cool. family entertainment at it's finest !!

thanks for the i.d. vouch too, it was so itsy bitsy, thought someone might be pranking. maybe the smallest bird egg on the planet?

addendum //(had to look it up)//:

The smallest egg laid by any bird is that of the vervain hummingbird (Mellisuga minima) of Jamaica and two nearby islets. Two specimens measuring less than 10 mm (0.39 in) in length weighed 0.365 g (0.0128 oz) and 0.375 g (0.0132 oz).

An egg laid on 5 Oct 1998 by a 'posture canary' of the German Crested variety owned by M.J. de Rijck of Heijen, The Netherlands, measured 7 mm (0.275 in)in length, 5.25 mm (0.2 in) in diameter and weighed 0.027 g (0.0009 oz).
Eggs emitted from the oviduct before maturity, known as 'sports', are not considered to be of significance.

[Tracydr]

We had one on our porch eaves in AZ,very cool.
They love pinetrees. We had lots nesting in the Punes in AZ,too.

[MissS]

Yes, that is a Hummingbird's nest. Each egg is the size of a Tic Tac. When the babies are 10 days old they are the size of a jellybean.

[twillis2252]

Have a bird feeder and a hummingbird feeder next to my garden. Occasionally hummingbirds will enter my garage unable to exit. I get my ladder and wait for them to land on my garage door opener. I gently get them using my hand, taking them outside and releasing.

[MissS]

Originally Posted by twillis2252

Have a bird feeder and a hummingbird feeder next to my garden. Occasionally hummingbirds will enter my garage unable to exit. I get my ladder and wait for them to land on my garage door opener. I gently get them using my hand, taking them outside and releasing.

You can also coax them out if you hang your feeder near the opening of the garage door. Some hang it just below the door and the birds fly out on their own that way.

[twillis2252]

I have tried placing the feeder near the opening to no avail. They are always trying to fly next to the ceiling until they tire and then will land on the opener. Have not had any problems removing them safely. My feeder is on the other side of my house. Love to watch them feed. Just wish the other birds would feed on the Japanese Beetles that show up in July!

[Starlight]

How precious! : ) I love my hummers. I have several feeders up and still they fight all the time. I have one that likes to come and get in my face all the time. I never am quite sure if it is asking for something or just using my glasses to see itself.

I hope your babies stay safe and hatch and grow up.

[AlittleSalt]

We have a lot of hummingbirds. There's one feeder in the garden and one right outside a living room window. I like watching them eat. Is that a Juniper tree it is in? (People around here call them cedar trees.)

They let us know when the feeders are empty buy doing flybys when I'm out in the garden.

[sjamesNorway]

Wow, that is beyond cute! There are no hummingbirds in Norway, and I miss them.

Steve

[coronabarb]

Lucky you to find it! I found several nests in my yard in So Cal. Watched a pair of them grow up and fledge from a nest in my lemon tree. I have lots of hummers here in So Oregon but have not seen any nests. Enjoy those lil cuties.

[oakley]

In 25yrs with lots of hummers i have only found one nest. In my untended herb bed. Breathtaking. My father, now 87, was president of a state bird club for years and organized elder hostel trips for birders...one club member was a hummingbird expert of sorts and had terminal cancer.
But had not had a nest in hand all her years.

I sent mine carefully packaged for her...parchment wrapped, clean straw, tiny pine cones instead of package peanuts...it was lost in the mail and i'll never forget how tragic that loss was...

I used to cover my blueberries with netting and a hummer got caught and died.
We now have a solid cover to avoid that horror. For a few years i just let the birds have the berries...

I watched Gannets dive in the harbor outside my window today. It has been a pleasure to have given my father the gift of Newfoundland birds the past dozen years....his favorite place of all his travels....

[AlittleSalt]

Last year I was watching a hummingbird flying back in forth like a pendulum. It turns out to be a mating ritual. They fly louder than usual while doing this.

[coronabarb]

Robert, yes it is a mating ritual OR it can be one male challenging another for dominance. They can do that back and forth swinging directly over another hummer and they also do a wide arc starting way up high in the sky. The male hesitates, then swings down and *pop*s at the bottom and continues back up in the sky. Love watching that. An interesting thing I noticed is the Anna's hummers in So Cal make a different popping sound at the bottom of the arc than the Allen's do there and the Rufous do here in So Oregon (they are both selasphorus so similar in some respects). So much fun to watch.