telophase: (Naruto - chibi dattebayo!)
telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2005-08-09 01:51 pm

Hummingbirds!

Link via my grandfather: a website with photos of a hummingbird mother over a month or so as she hatches and raises two babies.

[identity profile] celticdragonfly.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, that's cool! I wonder what they use to make the fuzzy white inside of the nest.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm, dunno. Can't be too much down from teh mother, I think, since I don't know how much of their downy feather they can reach with their beaks. *pokes around Google a bit* This page (http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/humm/NestBuilding.html) suggests spider silk and thistle and dandelion down. This page (http://www.abirdshome.com/hummingbirdnesting.html) is quite interesting - and it says spider silk and plant down, too. Good excuse to cultivate dandelions, I say!

[identity profile] yankeerose69.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool beaners. One time I was looking up references in order to try and draw owls and there was a site that had this couple keeping track of this owl family that was in the woods behind their house. The father and mother took turns in the nest while one or the other went out for food. Pretty interesting stuff when you see how birds are.

That nest was pretty neat, looks pretty cozy actually.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Neat. :)

The best photo was at the end, when they put a toothpick and a penny in the nest to show how teeny it really was. XD

[identity profile] lilrivkah.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
That's so amazing. :) :) :) Nature is so beautiful in its own right. :)

[identity profile] artist-luver.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
awwwww.... they are so icky when they are born.. but they are soooc ute!
nice camera! takes great closeup shots!

[identity profile] fourthage.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, birds! Those are great shots. Our hummingbirds left us a couple years ago and we can't figure out why.

[identity profile] greenapple2004.livejournal.com 2005-08-10 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
*squee!* Little birdies! One of the many delightful surprises about moving to SoCal is the prevalence of hummingbirds, which were a rare sight in suburban Massachusetts. Seeing more of them never makes them any less cool, though. Nature's pretty sweet.

[identity profile] cicer.livejournal.com 2005-08-10 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG. That is way too cute.