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Steve’s Bird Of The Day #59.
Hi everyone and welcome back to part 2 of our look at the “ruby-throated hummingbird”. Yesterday we saw the male and today in the above pic is the female. She does not have the ruby colored throat but instead it’s a grayish white like her chest and stomach area. She arrives a little later than the male and when she arrives he puts on a very elaborate dance in the air courtship display and if she accepts him, they mate and he leaves. She then selects a nesting site and constructs a tiny nest on top of a sturdy branch and makes it look like just a bump on the branch. She uses spider web and plant down to construct the nest and secures it to the branch with sticky spider silk. Then she attaches lichen to the outside of the nest to camouflage it. She uses her body to smoothly shape the interior of the nest and lays 1 to 3 eggs. She leaves the nest only for brief periods to feed. Hummingbirds eat the nectar from flowers and they prefer flowers that are red or orange, then pink or yellow and generally prefer tubular flowers for feeding. They are easily attracted to feeders like the one shown in my pics. They also eat a large number of small insects including mosquitoes and spiders as well. An important early season food source for them is the sap from trees provided by the sapsuckers. They will often follow a sapsucker around to find all the feeding spots. We are at the northernmost range for the ruby-throated hummingbird in this area.
I hope you have enjoyed our little look at this fascinating tiny bird. Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
What an ambitious bird ! What a nest for her young ones ! Great info Steve ! ☕️☕️😺🙂
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Thank you so much Sharon!😀😺🌞📷
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Great pictures
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
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Thank you so much!
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It’s a tiny and flash like bird.. like the comis flash that travels fast, this bird is like that. Never seen it close. I wonder how birds actually go out and come back without gps 🤔 I get confused a lot about my way to home, I have tried 100’s of route and never remembers one at Ease😐🙄 memory fault 😼
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Yep, these birds are so tiny, but they sure can travel fast when they want to! Faster than other birds.🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️ And it’s so amazing how they fly so fast like that and then suddenly they stop. No slowing down, just stop!😳 Bad memory already?🤔 Wait until you hit 40!😂😹
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oh please, don’t remind me that, I don’t want to forget like this 😭. But it’s happening 🙄🤔 getting blank too, not good, not good at all 🙄. I’m amazed at their sudden stop speed, they are really a time travelers 😳🤔what if they are
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Okay, I won’t remind you, unless you forget, then I will have to remind you so you don’t forget what you didn’t want me to remind you but I did remind you so you don’t forget the very thing that you forgot because I didn’t remind you about not forgetting.🤯🤯😵😵
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There you go 🙄 Happy? I’m confused 🤯😂😅
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YAY!!!😂😂😹😹
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What a sense of accomplishment 😼😐😁😸😹😂😂
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Every little bit helps!😂😂😹😹
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what do you call this, celebration 🤔😅😂😹😺
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Hmm, good point, it should have a name, hmm, oh I know, how about “successful confusion celebration of being confused about confusing the confusion of the successful confused by confusing the confused confusion of those being confused by the confused confusion people celebration of being confused and not knowing what I’m even saying celebration”.🤯🤯🤯😵😵😵 Or is that a bit long?🤔🙄
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😳😳😳🙄🙄🙄oh, well, um, that’s it. We are doing it perfectly 🤔 Okay?
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Great!😃 Too bad I can’t remember what it was.🙄🙄
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Um, actually what we were talking 😱😳🤔 we completely forgot that 😂😹. Um, here we go, so this is about forgetting and we forgot what we were talking 😝😄 what a perfect pair to discuss about forgetting 😹😂😹LOL ..
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Good idea,😁 let’s just forget it and then we won’t remember what we forgot so we won’t have to forget to remember that we forgot anymore.😂😂😹😹
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Done, let’s forget this never happened 😂😹
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Forget what happened?😂😹
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Forget, that we forgot, so we actually forget what we actually forgot to talk about the forgotten issues.☺️🤭
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That’s exactly right!😁 I think.🤔🤯
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☺️😁😁
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Incredible little bird, great pics and interesting facts…thanks Steve! 😁
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Thank you for taking a look Beverly! Have a great day!😀😺🌞
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You’re welcome Steve! Thanks, you have a wonderful day as well and enjoy that beautiful walk! 😀🌞
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Thank you Beverly! Yep, I certainly did enjoy it!😃🚶♂️🌲🚶♂️🌲🌞
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You’re welcome Steve! I am so glad it was nice!😁😬🌲
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Nicely enjoyed the Hamming bird story 🌹🙏👍🏼 this small colourful bird can see our compounds, last year this two Hamming bird made nest in front of my Palm free, and
Lay 2 eggs and 1 bird sit always in the nest inside . Then the small birds they bring food
And make them to eat, very interesting. Time come to fly one day the small two flew away.
Still got my computer the next photo, I saved ! I’m so happy to read Bird Of The Day 👌🌹🙏
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That is so nice to hear! Glad you enjoy the Bird of the Day!😀😺🌞📷
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Thank you 🙏 Have a nice Monday 😊
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Thanks!
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