Posted on 03/19/2014 10:49:16 AM PDT by patriot08
I like it. She’s the only Hummingbird I know with both first and last names. Maybe her middle name is Wing-Girl.
LOL. Yeah. Thought them giving her a first and last name was cute.
I know almost nothing about Cams, except that many parents like using them to view a newborn or if they’re suspicious of their babysitter. I am guessing that such a camera is silent, either that, or their bird gets used to the sound and is not frightened or distracted.
Probably both. One year Phoebe’s ‘landloard’ had to put some wire fencing around her nest. The neighborhood cats were getting interested.
By the way, the article should read, ‘Phoebe usually raises 4-5 clutches a year’- not ‘hatches 4-5 eggs’.
Busy little mom. LOL
Their nest was almost complete when they myseriously vanished. I had cut grooves below the entrance hole thinking they could use it to hang on to before jumping in but after watching them, they simply flew into the hole. Right before they left I saw on two occasions a starling hanging on to the grooves and trying to get into the house. They probably left because of that damn starling..........
So this winter I made new front doors, left them smooth on the outside and cut the entrance hole down to 1 5/8". Hopefully the starlings will leave it alone and the chicadees may try it again..........
Thanks for the link. Something beautiful to see on a rainy day in Oregon.
‘Hummingbird are one fo the few bird species i like besides the ones that go nicely between two slices of bread. They don’t crap all over like canada geese and they don’t cause property damage like wood peckers...’
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Birds are beautiful, but some of them can make a mess.
Around here we have Grackles (a type of blackbird) who really can make an unbelievable mess with their droppings.
Complete with audio too........Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....LOL!
Thanks.
It is beautiful to watch Phoebe tend her eggs/babies.
77F here and sunny. (S Tex)
One day I opened up one of our bluebird houses and a bull snake crawled out... all the babies had been eaten. Settled his hash with a round of snake shot.
She sounds like a bumble bee when she flies in.
One day I opened up one of our bluebird houses and a bull snake crawled out... all the babies had been eaten. Settled his hash with a round of snake shot.
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Poor little birds. Good on you- got the snake.
Yea, that's a much better description
Surely they have hummer feeders out for Phoebe.
Think I read that they did so she doesn’t have to leave her eggs/babies for too long to feed.
Also, think I read that they put out fluff and stuff for her nests.
She’s so cute when she returns to her nest and turns her eggs...all that wriggling and squirming around. LOL
And often tidies up her nest, too.
I always loved the mud swallows that moved into our old chicken coop, they made cool nests and nice songs.
You know it's funny TS, bluebirds are native to Michigan throughout the state and while I grew up in Northern Michigan as a kid but have lived here in the metro Detroit area since 1972, I had never seen a bluebird until I was golfing at one of the local metro parks back in the mid 1990's. That was the only bluebird until.......
This past June I went back up north for my 45 year class reunion and stayed with a close friend who lives alone out in the country on 45 acres. At the back of his yard he had placed bluebird houses on all the fence posts and he told me that 5 of them had housed bluebird families. And sure enough, I saw at least 6 flying around his property.........I thought that was pretty cool.
I think what's happened here in southern Michigan is that their nesting habitats have been taken over by the sparrows and starlings...........
Not familiar with your mud swallows, here we have barn swallows. I had birdhouse hanging in my front pin oak tree a couple years ago and one day whilw walking under it I heard a scratching noise coming from it.
When I took it down to see what was inside, it was a barn swallow who had entered it but couldn't get out.
Fortunately the bird was still healthy and he flew away but I threw the house into the garbage. Prior to that poor thing, all I would get was the damn sparrows and as soon as I removed a nest they would build another one........they're vermin.
I have since built a new house with a smaller hole and installed it on the side of my house hoping to entice another swallow to come and make it its home.......
I look at swallows as the “Blue Angels” of the bird community..............They’re acrobatic jets.
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