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I've got an Anna's Hummingbird building a nest outside our kitchen window right now.

So I was diggin around for info and I found a link to a 'Live Nest Cam' here in So Cal.

Kinda cool . . .

 

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My Mom and Dad have a flock of Hummingbirds that hang around their house. They now have a hobby of constantly refilling their sugar water feeders to keep the birds happy. 🤓👍
 

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My Mom and Dad have a flock of Hummingbirds that hang around their house. They now have a hobby of constantly refilling their sugar water feeders to keep the birds happy. 🤓👍
empty nesters gotta find a purpose. MAB. :)
 

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Thanks for posting this. It brings back memories of my Mom. She had several feeders around the backyard, and watching the birds brought her joy.

I miss you, Mom.
 

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Thanks for posting this. It brings back memories of my Mom. She had several feeders around the backyard, and watching the birds brought her joy.

I miss you, Mom.
My Mom as well !
She really dug the backyard birds.

Poked my head up there w/ my phone & saw she laid the 1st egg.
I guess they wait a day or 2 before dropping the 2nd one.


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I got about 7 generations of little birds that try to stay under my patio, saved a couple over the years from the dogs, but they are noisy and shit everywhere. So this year I put up mesh to stop them from setting up shop, only problem I left a little space and now have 2 nests. I will ride it out another year but they are up to about 15-20 birds now all sitting on wire above my porch, My girlfriend swears they fly around with me when I walk dog.
 

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Not a hummingbird but had to add as my brother is the biggest BIRD NERD I know.
Travels the world looking for them.

Was even picked up for espionage in Venezuela while bird hunting.

In the Himalayas right now looking for this thing.

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My Mom and Dad have a flock of Hummingbirds that hang around their house. They now have a hobby of constantly refilling their sugar water feeders to keep the birds happy. 🤓👍
We have about 8 feeders around the front/back yards. they do get rather pissed when they are not full. LOL
At the same time i can get 2-3 of them to just hover about a foot away from my face for 10-15 seconds. almost like they are saying thank you :)
They are cool little things👍👍
 

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Fun to watch….

When my brother lived in Missoula they had an Anna’s miss the fall migration south and it spent the entire winter in their home. There were Audubon articles written about it.

Here’s some slow motion we filmed when staying in Ouray
 

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We have about 8 feeders around the front/back yards. they do get rather pissed when they are not full. LOL
At the same time i can get 2-3 of them to just hover about a foot away from my face for 10-15 seconds. almost like they are saying thank you :)
They are cool little things👍👍
I have the same experience, seems like they just kind of want to hang out with you for a while. But I haven't seen the two the use my feeder in over a month, think some kind of predator might have found their nest. They usually are around all year.
 

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I've got an Anna's Hummingbird building a nest outside our kitchen window right now.

So I was diggin around for info and I found a link to a 'Live Nest Cam' here in So Cal.

Kinda cool . . .

watched them for a bit, awesome
 

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I have the same experience, seems like they just kind of want to hang out with you for a while. But I haven't seen the two the use my feeder in over a month, think some kind of predator might have found their nest. They usually are around all year.
Right now the hummers have the best foraging of the year. My feeders are dead the last 3 weeks.
 

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I had a string of lights on my patio one year and found a hummingbird nest. Had a couple eggs in it and thought how cool it was. Kept checking on it all the time waiting for the babies to hatch. Super cool to see when it finally happened, until they starting shitting every where. Needles to say the following year when they started a new next I took it down.
 

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Fall and spring is when we typically see the highest traffic. This year with all the rain it has been pretty slow. These are from a couple years ago.
 
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I was framing a roof about 25 years ago and got buzzed by hummingbird and it scared the shit out of me. Good thing my legs were wrapped around one of rafters.
 

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A few years ago I bought my girlfriend a feeder and set it up for her. She lived up in the Devore area and their property was surrounded by Eucalyptus trees. After it had been out for a couple weeks she let it go dry to show me what would happen when I came up. She walked out of the house with the full feeder and went to hang it up. She was surrounded in no time, Little fuckers buzzing everywhere, probably 50 of them. They were landing on the feeder before she could hang. Even had one land on her head. The problem ended up being she couldn't get up with the demand for nectar
 

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Fun to watch….

Here’s some slow motion we filmed when staying in Ouray.
The 14,000' peaks around Silverton, Telluride, and Ouray provide beautiful backdrops for enjoying the majesty of the Rocky Mountains. Hope you enjoyed the trip and made great memories.
 

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A few years ago I bought my girlfriend a feeder and set it up for her. She lived up in the Devore area and their property was surrounded by Eucalyptus trees. After it had been out for a couple weeks she let it go dry to show me what would happen when I came up. She walked out of the house with the full feeder and went to hang it up. She was surrounded in no time, Little fuckers buzzing everywhere, probably 50 of them. They were landing on the feeder before she could hang. Even had one land on her head. The problem ended up being she couldn't get up with the demand for nectar
I don't buy the nectar anymore. just a 4 to 1 warm water and sugar mix....NO red dye either, it softens their eggs and they die before hatching.
 

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Last nights PBS show on Hummers was awesome.... shot in Costa Rica. I had no idea there were so many sub species with different attributes. Mine here at shore don't sound as personable as some of you fellas have in outlying areas... I'm guessing it may just be because they have so many flowering plants to choose from here. When I forget to change sugar/ water each week and it goes dry they seem to just disappear until I get it freshened up and they are back in minutes. I have noticed to my south in Carlsbad my friends Hummers are larger and look a bit different in colors.
 

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Last nights PBS show on Hummers was awesome.... shot in Costa Rica. I had no idea there were so many sub species with different attributes. Mine here at shore don't sound as personable as some of you fellas have in outlying areas... I'm guessing it may just be because they have so many flowering plants to choose from here. When I forget to change sugar/ water each week and it goes dry they seem to just disappear until I get it freshened up and they are back in minutes. I have noticed to my south in Carlsbad my friends Hummers are larger and look a bit different in colors.
Crazy right?
I read somewhere that there is over 300 species of the things.
 

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I don't buy the nectar anymore. just a 4 to 1 warm water and sugar mix....NO red dye either, it softens their eggs and they die before hatching.
I just used nectar as a general term, we always make our own, same way you do
 

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Got a wood pecker working away last week or so on power pole in backyard, not sure how many licks he takes a day but he is putting in work.
Bastard Wood Peckers :mad:
Got two older large queen palms growing in my front lawn.
Friggin wood peckers have a habit of hoarding acorns for the winter. Seems over time the acorns rot, get infested with maggots and provide food for over wintering. Pretty smart, growing their own meaty food source ---- BUT

So for a month last fall, my wife and I watch from our great room as these two woodpeckers head back and forth between my neighbors live oak tree and our palms. They'd do this non-stop all morning.
Then they'd stash the acorns down the top of the remaining dead leaf bases, filling them to capacity. The bastards filled both trees with an untold number of acorns.
Now following our abundant rains, every week I walk out and pull baby oak trees out of the lawn, the acorns love that warm moist environment nestled down in the grass.
Pretty soon I'll have my guy trim the trees, I'll have to tarp off the area below and try to catch as many as possible.

I recently read a story of a family back east somewhere that noticed maggots coming out of the wall base. When they had it scoped, they discovered the entire wall cavity was filled with rotting acorns. The woodpeckers had opened a hole up under a roof overhang, and been filling this cavity for years. After opening the wall, they removed 700 lbs of acorns :oops:
Kinda cute hearing and watching them jack hammer tree trunks, not cute when it's your home that becomes the target. :mad:
 

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The Naval Ammunitions Storage area just south of the San Diego Harbor entrance is home to numerous burrowing owls. In '78 before we started adding all the new magazines and support buildings for the Tomahawk missiles and nukes they were relocating from Seal Beach, they started capturing and relocating them out into the desert somewhere. Some actually returned I was told.
While working out there we'd see them all day, very cool owls. I guess they did a good job of keeping the rodents in check --- BUT, one predator that hunted them at night, along with the vast number of jack's living there too were the Great Horned Owls that would fly over from Pt Loma at night and feed.
The big owls were especially appreciative of our new perimeter security lighting that lit the "No Man" area between the double security fences like a ball stadium.
One day I noticed the leg of a jack rabbit dangling down from top of a light fixture 40' in the air. WTF I thought, that's strange, how'd the bunny get up there and who put him there ?
We'd seen Ospreys using them for tables to dine on their fish, but these jacks were big, plus they mostly came out at night.
So one night we're testing the lighting, and we notice several jacks had emerged or squeezed into this illuminated zone. Wasn't long and I see this huge owl silently dive, snatch up the bunny and immediately take him to the top of the light fixture.
Not only did we have Ospreys dining on our fixtures, but Great Horned Owls as well --- dumb-ass bunnies really should feed in the shadows, they were making it far to easy.
Navy said all the blood stains on the new fixtures wasn't our problem, they'd excuse it and leave it off any punch-lists. 😁
 

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I was framing a roof about 25 years ago and got buzzed by hummingbird and it scared the shit out of me. Good thing my legs were wrapped around one of rafters.
I had a similar experience; I was wearing a brightly colored flowered shirt, standing on my deck. A hummingbird flew straight at me, full speed, and stopped midair about 6-12 inches from my chest. I just about had a heart attack!
 

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I'm a bird nerd. I look at all the birds people track on birding websites and then look for where they saw turkeys. Then, I go where they drop their location pins and SCORE! All is fair in love and war.
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Shit just got real . . . LOL.
The 'Tax Man' showed up today . . . crazy how everything just went silent ! 😆
That Hummingbird must've been shittin her pants !
I'll be surprised if the eggs even hatch !

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I'm a bird nerd. I look at all the birds people track on birding websites and then look for where they saw turkeys. Then, I go where they drop their location pins and SCORE! All is fair in love and war. View attachment 1218898 View attachment 1218897
Had a boss outside Atlanta who'd hunt turkeys with bow & arrow.... I think he'd go up in an elevated perch and shoot down at them. At least I think that was the technique. Said it made him be quiet and calm for long periods which he enjoyed.
 

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Shit just got real . . . LOL.
The 'Tax Man' showed up today . . . crazy how everything just went silent ! 😆
That Hummingbird must've been shittin her pants !
I'll be surprised if the eggs even hatch !

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Rut Row.... he looks serious. I was watching my hummer feeder once and one of em broke off the feeder and headed to his perch across the yard and a crow came across him midair and grabbed his ass and carried him over onto my roof and had lunch.... crow just got lucky coming across him flying.... wild.... fucking crows.
 

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Shit just got real . . . LOL.
The 'Tax Man' showed up today . . . crazy how everything just went silent ! 😆
That Hummingbird must've been shittin her pants !
I'll be surprised if the eggs even hatch !

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I've watched hummingbirds chase red tails until they'd cleared the area. Mockingbirds as well, especially the crows, they're brutal and tenacious.
I laugh and call them the Rodney Dangerfield of birds. 🤣 But if a Harris or Cooper Hawk flies over our quail and bunnies at Havasu, they pull off a vanishing act worthy of Houdini. One second they're all over the ground feeding, then next they've disappeared and won't come out until the hawk leaves the area ---- and then, almost as fast as they disappeared, there they are again. Watching them for awhile I'm amazed the hawks don't all starve.
My neighbor saw a mating pair of Cooper Hawks working the other day, first hawk took off one direction, but no sooner than a gopher had emerged from his tunnel thinking the coast was clear, the mate launched a vertical attack and snatch his ass right up. 👍
I bet this one on the fence gets more than his share of doves and pigeons. Doubt he'd bother chasing a hummer, be like trying to catch a bee.
 

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Girls have been working hard, one isnt leaving nest much so she might have something in nest.
 

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Trip out on this.
Momma was at the feeder . . . but for an extended period . . . not drinking from it, & not moving a muscle.
Ohhhh Shitttt . . .
I walked outside and that Hawk comes swooping by !
It landed & I clapped / whistled at the same time & spooked it.
It swung around and I clapped / whistled again & it split.

So I hung a few CD's on fishing line with a swivel along the patio . . . . guess hawks don't dig the bright reflection etc. . . . we'll see.

But I think Momma's days, if not hours are numbered. LOL.
 

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Trip out on this.
Momma was at the feeder . . . but for an extended period . . . not drinking from it, & not moving a muscle.
Ohhhh Shitttt . . .
I walked outside and that Hawk comes swooping by !
It landed & I clapped / whistled at the same time & spooked it.
It swung around and I clapped / whistled again & it split.

So I hung a few CD's on fishing line with a swivel along the patio . . . . guess hawks don't dig the bright reflection etc. . . . we'll see.

But I think Momma's days, if not hours are numbered. LOL.
I've read some opinions that smaller hawks, kestrils, merlins, etc. will bother with trying to snatch up a hummingbird. Then I've read Audubon stating that rarely will a hawk bother them. Apparently a hummingbird which weighs about the same as a penny, doesn't offer enough food to warrant the energy expenditure.

But I thought this article in the Guardian about a research subject done that showed that many hummingbirds build their nests lower in the tree, in the 'Cone of Safety' below hawk nests.
Seems that at least in the forests, Jays are the nemesis of Hummingbird nests, the jays rob the eggs. Jays will build their nests and forage in an area striving to remain above the hawks in order to avoid the hawks diving on them. The Jays avoid this cone shaped area below the hawk nest.
So it's the "Enemy of my enemy" philosophy. I thought the article was pretty cool reading, rather amazed somebody noticed this and conducted a study on it.

Here at home we don't have any feeders. My grove unintentionally feeds the coyotes with avocados, but they provide a service in keeping the grove relatively clean of fallen avocados I'd probably be stepping on and mushing on my boot. I do keep a basin filled with water near the edge of the grove with a game camera on it. Seems it's popular with all the critters, from birds to the bunnies, even the deer stop for a drink occasionally. I've never seen the bobcat drink however.

Otherwise, despite having about every other creature roaming the place a night, minus a mountain lion (I sure hope), we don't feed the wildlife.
We have a lot of various vegetation and trees that blossom in the grove, between them, the hummingbirds have natural food source year-round.
As a result we get seasonal visitors, but we have many who live here and entertain year round.
They use the avocado trees a lot for nests, we find them all over, sometimes in really dumb-ass places as well. The residents become very resentful of the visitors, aerial battles can be viewed almost daily in the spring, often reaching great height as their engagement rotates higher and higher like a whirlwind.

When the huge orchid tree blooms in spring, there's often so many hummers on it they look like bees. No sooner than one tries to drink, another dives on it chasing it off, it's nuts to watch. Then all of a sudden as if somebody blew a whistle, it's time out and most land and catch their breaths, then it's on again.

When my son was an older teen, but after having been raised by a single mom in an apartment, came to learn a trade and get his shit together --- basically, daddy boot-camp, he got to rub elbows with nature up close and personal.
He suffered many traumatic learning events, from rattlers to gopher snakes emerging from gopher holes, and rats. That was the fun part of his training, the part where we both got a lot of laughs and well connected.
Helped get us through the far more tense and strenuous stages that tested us both but eventually developed into an amazing relationship.

Easily intimidated early on, one day he comes running at full tilt out of the grove, batting at the air around his head. I'm standing there watching him running towards me, acting as if he's being chased by some invisible force.
Then I see it, it was a lone hummingbird. 🤣 That little fucker was hot on his tail (Or head really) and did seem agitated at him for some reason. I could only imagine he'd gotten close to her nest and she was in full on protection mode, I dunno, I was laughing so hard I damn near fell down. 😂
 

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Sitting on the computer and listening to birds do work and i keep hearing this thud, thud thud noise. So I peak out and one of the birds is jumping into a medicine cabinet with a mirror we have on our deck from bathroom refurbish. I guess he thinks he is fending off an intruder, going to wear her beak out lol.
 

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She's still chillin . . . .

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Beautiful pics 👍 She seems right at home in that Madagascar Palm. We've got a huge very old 'Teddy Bear' cholla in Havasu that's scary from 10' away --- Jumping type ya know 😱 Those spines will penetrate and stick to steel I think. Yet seasonally we have a Cactus Wren that builds and nests in it. Flies in and out with apparent impunity, and easily perches on it as well. Certainly an awesome place for a nest with awesome built in security.

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Then I risked my life to get this next pic :oops:
They appear safe enough to me 😁

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Wow ! . . . That is some SERIOUS barbed-wire around that place.
Never seen needles so dense . . . gnarly.
Those chicks can rest easy with all that protection !
 

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Wow ! . . . That is some SERIOUS barbed-wire around that place.
Never seen needles so dense . . . gnarly.
Those chicks can rest easy with all that protection !
That is the cactus that have cost about three neighbors several thousand dollars in vets bills.
We are vigilante about picking up those cute fuzzy looking segments when they drop off. It's how these Cholla reproduce, as each segment detaches easily and rapidly grows roots almost immediately after hitting the dirt. Then bingo, you've got a new pup growing.
In their native environment, they create groves like this one at Joshua Tree. Obviously riding a motorcycle along that trail could be extremely hazardous to your health if you got off track or went down :eek:
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I hate to see it, but as much as wildlife mammals know to avoid these, the neighbors who let their mutts run around unleashed, discover the hard way, should their curious mutt swipe their paw at a fallen segment, no matter how small, it's going to stick to that paw.

The problem really turns ugly when the natural instinct of the dog is to try to use it's mouth to remove the well adhered segment. Now this segment is not only still stuck to it's paw, but now the paw and segment are firmly attached to the dogs lip.
The more the dog struggles, the more it gets attached. NOW, once the owner discovers this poor dog is seriously fucked, he realizes removal is a bitch, made far more difficult because naturally the dog isn't at all happy.

In most cases, sadly it's resulted in hefty vet bills and unhappy neighbors.
I really hate to see the dogs injured, but I figure both the neighbors and their mutts got an education. Hopefully there won't be a next time, and I'm not aware of ever hearing about a 2nd incident.

This thing now stands over 6' tall and I can't imagine how much it might weigh. Those wren pics were taken 10 years ago, you can imagine how much it's grown since. It's size is intimidating, removal would be a daunting hazardous undertaking. We've bought large double walled paper construction site cleanup bags to collect and dispose of the spiny segments. Interesting that thick paper does a good job of containing the spines and has the ability to resist penetration. Years ago I learned if you have to pick up a cactus or segment, you can wrap it in newspaper to hold it.
We use long tongs to pick them up, they will go through a leather glove with ease, or your boot for that matter.

Up close and magnified, you see that those spines are not smooth as they appear. They are created to attach to a passing wildlife's coat, then be transported some distance, get dislodged and start a new colony.
Mother nature being amazing has equipped these spines with almost a microscopic barbs along the shaft. They penetrate easily, they are tenacious when you're attempting to remove one.
My beautiful wife many years ago had to stop for a pee break as we drove down to Anza Borrego Desert. She retreats around a boulder to get out of sight of the road, then I hear her cry out. Poor dear had unwittingly squatted down and came up with a small segment attached to her beautiful baby smooth naked butt cheek. 😢
Lucky for her I was driving the vette and always carried a basic tool bag that happened to have long nose pliers. This was my first time removing them and I was shocked to see how far her otherwise firm butt skin stretched before the spine finally released ---- Painfully I might add. 😱

Fortunately there was only a couple planted rather firmly, she got really lucky.
 

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Shit just got real . . . LOL.
The 'Tax Man' showed up today . . . crazy how everything just went silent ! 😆
That Hummingbird must've been shittin her pants !
I'll be surprised if the eggs even hatch !

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That's a Coopers Hawk and might very well be our neighborhood "Hawky", we have a nest in our Eucalyptus on Bushard/Atlanta and read they have about a 1-2 mile territory radius. They come every year around this time and have about 3-5 babies. We DO NOT have any rat issues in the spring!! Bastards are mean, when the babies are in the nest they get very protective, they dive bomb me and the kids in the back yard. One got me last year, I had a 3" gash on the top of my head, luckily i was wearing my hat.
 
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