Author Topic: Hummingbird birth photos! (Read 2670 times)

280plus · « **on:** September 12, 2005, 07:50:58 AM »

Very interesting series of pix for you nature lovers. Clicking on "next page" located bottom right corner will take you through them.

http://community.webtv.net/hotmail.com/verle33/HummingBirdNest

griz · « **Reply #1 on:** September 12, 2005, 11:24:41 AM »

Thanks, those pictures of the tiny little eggs and birds are great. Cheesy

TarpleyG · « **Reply #2 on:** September 12, 2005, 01:53:33 PM »

One ate the other. YUCK! Can you imagine your twin 'eating' you?

Greg

280plus · « **Reply #3 on:** September 12, 2005, 03:51:19 PM »

Chances are he/she was pushed out. Apparently the Law od the Jungle applies even to adorable little hummingbirds. Shocked

client32 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 13, 2005, 04:15:32 AM »

Anyone else find themselves laughing all day about the Cain reference?
I thought it was funny.

Antibubba · « **Reply #5 on:** September 13, 2005, 09:25:32 AM »

No, I think the other one was Cain.

Obviously, he was un-Abel.

LawDog · « **Reply #6 on:** September 13, 2005, 09:58:31 AM »

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Apparently the Law od the Jungle applies even to adorable little hummingbirds.

If you want an eye-opening lesson in the Law of the Jungle, set up a hummingbird feeder on your porch.

'Adorable' doesn't come to mind. 'Savage', 'bloodthirsty', 'psychotic' and 'rabid' do, though.

It's amazing how much 'pissed-off' one of those tiny little bodies can hold.

LawDog

280plus · « **Reply #7 on:** September 13, 2005, 10:04:34 AM »

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It's amazing how much 'pissed-off' one of those tiny little bodies can hold.

LOL...I'll bet! We were watching the finches go at it Sunday, same rules apply!

client32 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 13, 2005, 10:56:05 AM »

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'Savage', 'bloodthirsty', 'psychotic' and 'rabid' do, though.

Those have always been words I associated with humming birds. Of course my introduction to them was setting up a bird feeder at a campground in my youth. It is amazing how much a tiny bird can scare a kid.

And just sitting there hovering is just wrong......very cool, but wrong.

LawDog · « **Reply #9 on:** September 13, 2005, 01:38:57 PM »

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It is amazing how much a tiny bird can scare a kid.

And just sitting there hovering is just wrong......very cool, but wrong.

I was on my lady friend's deck one evening, watching the hummingbirds feed, when I saw one of the bigger (?) ones slaughtering wasps. I got up to take a better look, and the little beggar hovered in mid-air, looked me up and down, then made a noise like fingernails being raked down a blackboard, letting me know that any time I felt frisky, he'd be glad to stomp a mudhole in my butt and walk it dry.

I took a good look at that knitting-needle beak and the not-exactly-sane look in that little green SOB's eyes and decided on the better part of valour.

And I was a fully-grown adult. Cheesy

LawDog

280plus · « **Reply #10 on:** September 13, 2005, 01:58:43 PM »

Attack of the killer hummingbirds... Shocked

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