Wednesday I was sweeping the floor of the machine shop where I work when someone said a dead hummingbird was on the floor. I swept it into my dust bucket. But I thought I saw some movement so I pulled it out and held it in my right hand. It blinked. I began to pull off the cobwebs that had ended its flight. First I got its eyes free then started on one that wrapped it wings. As soon as it could move its wings it shot out of my hand and flew up to the ceiling. It was an event that lasted only moments but will be with me forever.
How did you get it off the ceiling? I have them get inside my great room vaulted ceiling where I can't reach them; all they do is keep hitting the ceiling and staying right up against it. They eventually tire and come down but where I never know; I don't have time to spend hours waiting for them to come down. I find them weeks later, dead. If they do come down while I'm watching they take off so fast I can't catch them. So all I can do is be sure to keep the outside doors closed because it's a death sentence if they get inside.
My wife and I have been feeding Hummingbird’s for 40 years. The amount of Hummingbird’s varies from year to year. Each Hummingbird has their own personality. If we forget to put out the feeders in the beginning of the season one of the Hummingbirds will tap on the window where we are sitting to let us know they have arrived and want food.
Hummingbird’s? The hummingbird’s nest. The hummingbird’s favorite food. The hummingbird’s personality. If two hummingbirds shared a nest it would be the two hummingbirds’ nest. You were feeding hummingbirds. Not the hummingbird’s. Capiche?
I have a hummingbird that built her nest 🪹 on my patio right in front of my kitchen window, she laid two eggs and now they have hatched. It’s amazing to watch her and when she feeds her babies. Will be sad to see them go. I’m in love watching them ♥️♥️♥️
Yes they were and now they are ready to leave the nest 🪹 I was taking a picture of them both from a far and then one few off! Now I am watching the last baby . Loved watching them stretch their tiny wings ♥️♥️♥️
I’m here because I found a hummingbird nest in my back yard. The little eggs are the size of a tick-tac . I’m blessed to have this hummingbird and her new family in my back yard.
LOVE THEM!! Cutest birds I saw mostly in my friends house is in Texas where she used to prepare sweet water for the to drink since she did not have flowers. Instead I had a ton of flowers in my garden so they used to come to enjoy the nectar of my many flowers: absolutely the cutest bird together with the finches that I love just as much. Nature is the best gift that God gave to us all andrespecting every single of HIS creations is what I LOVE the most. Angela Umbria Italy :)
I have a repeat hummingbird who builds her nest in our tree. She gave me a gentle reminder to put out the feeder by flying by the window a couple of times.
I have several hummingbird nests on my property, and a couple of them I can look into. They both have eggs in them. I make sure my feeders are always full. I want them to stay around. (Jan Griffiths).
Found the neighbors cat with something under a 8 foot tall bush in my driveway. The cat had a baby bird, no feathers at all, The cat seing me jammed, I picked up the baby, Yes I Do No Not 2 Do That But, .....It's a Baby! In the rose bushes a bird was yelling like an alarm. It was the Hummingbird Mommy. Found the little nest about 5 foot up the tree the baby was under, Put it back in the nest Hoping after the cats mouth and my hand Mommy doesn't reject it. Came back slowly 30 min. later and mommy was in her nest but now everyday I hear the mommy yelling like the alarm and when I go out, the cat is right there! I guess I did what I can but Mother Nature is going to do what it's going to do and it's not like I can set up camp in the driveway till it can fly. As posting this the mommy has called again and had to go chase the dam cat! ........Again!!🤨
@@huntingtonbeachsasquatch Tell your neighbors to keep their cat inside. He has no business being out anyway. Not only dangerous for the birds, but for him as well. (Jan Griffiths).
My hummingbirds are on year 6 of returning to me. I turned my back porch into a hummingbird heaven for them. I love that they feel safe coming into my home.
I have a feeder on a hanger off my patio. They will fly in and land on the hanger and stare at my patio door until I come out and change the water in the feeder. Recently I bought some flowers that they supposedly like and put them below the feeder and they weren’t feeding on the flowers. So I moved the feeder close to the patio door down on the cement, hoping they would go to the flowers. They just got pissed off and came at my head and went over to feeder on the ground by my door-which wasn’t where they wanted it to be lol
Yes they do. I have a bunch in my yard from putting out just 6 feeders. It was time to take them down to clean them. I brought the first one back out and one almost landed on it (while holding it by hand for them) but another one dive bombed him and they both flew off fighting. A few of them will hover over my head looking down at me when I sit under the feeders to watch them.
Watching the beautiful hummingbirds flying is like watching beautiful little birds ballet dancing in the air with their little wings thank you so much for sharing the beautiful video @ Facts.Net👍👍😀😀🌹🌹❤️❤️
I live in the Las Vegas NV area and they are all over here. I love seeing them, a few weeks ago a tree, I think it is the smoke tree, was covered in yellow blooms and I sat in my backyard and counted 9 hummingbirds in that tree. It was amazing to watch. I was telling a neighbor across the street about it and she told me “as you were telling me that there was a hummingbird hovering not far behind you!” These are my favorite birds even more so than the desert quails that live in the area, but both are fascinating critters to watch. ❤️❤️ Thank you for all the information on them.
@@agood1 I just read a book about witchcraft. Did you know the entire monetary system is based on belief and magicky 💩? They have stolen others power and divine rights. Good thing Divine Justice is in the house⚖️ Mama's house, Mama's rules 💖
Bridget B aren't they just like little peeks into how peaceful it must be in Heaven!?!?! God knows what He's doing 👌🙏and I love these precious little ones ❤💖💕I think of my mom 👩❤and keep 🙏 very still watching until they zoom off to another place God bless you 🙏❤and keep you safe 🙏❤ thank you for your compassion for those helpless little things 🙏❤ !!!
These Creatures are Soo, intelligent. The Hummingbirds that come to My feeders have came to the back yard to get me when the feeders Needed replenishing. Simply marvelous!!!
That is awesome! They are very smart I've noticed too. When I take the feeder in to clean it and refill it, they watch me do so from the kitchen window. They just hover and stare at me until I bring it back out!
I used to get chewed out if the feeder near my front door was empty when I got home from work. To be dressed down by such a tiny creature is very humbling.
They also recognize themselves. I just made a video of a hummingbird after he saw himself on video. The second recording he's doing more of a performance. I just uploaded it.
My neighbor has feeders in her back yard, and the hummingbirds come over into my yard and feed on some of the citrus flowers and I’ve seen them flying around certain shrimp plants too. I love watching their incredible speed.
I just adore these little guys. And 'bold' isn't the word. They're truly fearless. They'll spot a bumblebee from a hundred yards off raiding their stash and chase them off, it's so funny. After becoming friends with them, they'll jump right onto your hand to drink or get a goodie. They'll sit on a dish right in front of you while you shower them, it's so adorable. I would leave the window open in my house. My house was filled with tropical plants and flowers. I kept a growing colony of fruit flies in among the plants and flowers, and boy do they gobble them up. Hummers would fly in and spend the day in that room. Their little nests are fabulous and beautiful little creations. I also had pools of fish in there so it all may have been a bit too humid for a Sonoran desert bird, but they all sure seemed to like it in there. I kinda was hoping that one of them would choose some places in there to build a nest; what a fabulous experience it'd be to watch them build those very precise little architectures. Their nectar needs to be very carefully formulated to maintain their health. The tiniest of Hummers is a bird so tiny it's really hard to believe. I mean insect size, literally. The little things will challenge anything bigger that bugs-em You'll see the little dive-bombers perch on some branch, and dart back and forth into a cloud of Mayflies, snatching up one after another. If you invite them with a feeder or something else that appeals to them you'll be treated to some of the more uncommon varieties. It looks like their beaks are just these long tube-like things, but there not. They open their beaks like any other bird, it's just that their beaks (and that long little transparent tongue) are modified to reach deep into flowers. It's so funny to see them perch right next to you and just once-in-a-while glance at you, as if you were just some tree or a fencepost. Their eggs are like little perals. Their nests are so dainty they'll use spider webbing as part of it's construction. They are truly jewels of the sky.
I loved watching the video, I have few feeders,enjoy watching them daily. I cook the nectar, no food coloring, they love it. Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. 💕💕❤️❤️👍👍🙏
@@cathyeverette3616 Hi, I boil water, shut it off.add the sugar, stir until you see no sugar, then store leftover on fridge. 1/4. Sugar to 1 cup of water. I make eight cups of water with two cups sugar. Kool.. I clean with vinegar and water, then use a brush to clean feeders. I am joy you so much watching them. Marie. I am sorry for errors, I have to get some reading glasses. Just had surgery on eyes. 😍
@@cathyeverette3616 You are welcome. I have four feeders out. Don’t add too much food in feeders, they need cleaning about three days, I try not to waste. I have had six -eight birds at once on feeders. Love it. Blessings to you also, good luck. I💕💕🙏🙏
I made my nectar 1c. Sugar to 2 c. Water microwave container put on high for 3 minutes check it out add more till sugar dissolves. Put some in feeder sore rest in refrigerator. Very little nectar is needed since it supplies a lot more sugar for them than usual. Clean feeder every 3 days if temp. is in 60 and more often when temp is higher...miss having them . Don't be surprised if bees or other birds come to sample or visit your feeder.
they r soooo cool 2 watch... started watching all birds during pandemic... we feed a ton of different birds... learned a lot f/this vid... thank u... 😍
If you are banding them and recapturing them every year to verify they are the same birds every year, then you might be right. But if you are not banding them, then there is no way you can verify it is the same birds returning every year.
@@gordonkarre6364 you don't spend much time in nature with the wildlife, do you? I had 2 greenhouses, multiple gardens and an orchard. My main companions were the hummingbirds and my dogs. The hummingbirds were very communicative and would let me know when their feeders were empty. A couple of them also liked to surprise me and "stalk" me. They can be little tricksters too. They are extremely territorial so I made sure to provide them with multiple feeders to avoid any conflict over food. The couples would fly around together untill their eggs were lain and hatched. Then I would see them individually feeding and flying around. They took turns watching over their children, and we're extremely dedicated parents. I knew each bird in my yard by their behavior and markings, and yes, the same couples returned to my yard year after year. This is such a hard reality for humans to face, but when animals are not stressed and abused they behave differently than how zookeepers and hunters claim they do. Not everyone is a whore😹🚬 We can't say that about most humans anymore, can we?....the ones that engage in unnatural behavior including sodomy and adultery are facing the reality that their behavior causes imbalance and leaves children without the sincere Love and care they need. Children have divine rights. So do our animal friends. If we don't respect the lives of all SINCERELY LOVING KIND-HEARTED BEINGS, we can't really expect mother nature to respect our lives, now can we?
@@christinecallanan8389 I most definitely spend a lot of time in nature and the outdoors. I am also an ornithologist and spend most of my time researching and observing birds and their behaviors. I also have hummingbirds in my back yard all year long and see many species of them in Arizona. So please try not to assume anything about me and my knowledge. All I am saying, is that without scientific verifiable data, one cannot assume that same pairs return every year. In fact, hummingbirds do not mate for life. Males will breed with a female and move on and look for other females. Rufous Hummingbirds migrate 2500 miles from Mexico to Canada and Alaska. Once the females arrive after the males, then breeding males will mate and leave the females on their own for the incubation and raising of the young. Many males will start migrating back to Mexico as early as July. If you can band and recapture and release on a yearly basis and document your findings, then you will have provided scientific data.
@@gordonkarre6364 don't tell me what I know to be true to not be then. The worst threat to the animal "kingdom" is humans who claim they are behave like Babylonians, when they are in fact VERY loving and loyal to their mates and families. Sodomy is very rare in Nature, and not desirable at all, since it is really a perverted version of a NATURAL act, but it's the new "normal" according to the perverts in power. I don't have to ban and capture innocent brings to prove something natural that can easily be observed. I stand by my observations and know who my REAL friends are. 🤗💖 (I didn't read all of your post....it got a little too preachy and demanded I pay more attention to your credentials than the truth. Let's just agree to different experiences with our animal friends ) Have a great day😁
I recently put up a feeder for first time and have 1 lil guy that visits daily, I hope he brings friends. Their so fascinating to watch, I never knew they chirped also…so amazing!
If you want more hummers in your yard - you'll need more feeders spaced apart from each other. Hummers are solitary and territorial - they don't share or make friends and families.
@@catherinehenry2291 If you place several feeders out and keep them filled, they will learn there is a reliable supply of food that doesn't run out and find less need to compete and be territorial over what in nature is a limited food source.
Most important fact not covered is that if you do not change the sugar water in your hummingbird feeder quite often, it ferments (especially in the Arizona sun) and poisons the humming birds.
@@robdonell9915 More often in Arizona than in Washington state. More often in the summer than in the winter. Googling "hummingbird food spoilage" will lead to some baseline information.
here in northern NM, I have 3 feeders out and have to ffill them all 2x a day! 4 quarts worth! I clean them every other feeding so mold doesnt build up. there are probably 30 birds here in the morning and seems even more n the evening. One day we were gone and came home to empty feeders and no birds. I filled the feeders and within minutes, they all came back. we have 5 kinds here, Annas, Broadtailed, Rufus, Calliope and Black chinned. One curious thing - I have a planter with gorgeous red Nasturtiums right by the feeders, but hummers dont seem to go to them?
@@miriadonna8 Mother Nature would probably appreciate a little shout-out now and then for her handiwork. She's so modest, like a good mother should be 🤗🌏💖
@Virginia Evans I'm not fond of pedophile supporters. Mother Nature is who I live in accordance with. Too bad more people don't respect the DIVINE FEMININE. We are currently living out of balance with Nature and Life. Love is your true creator.most don't act like it.. LOVELESS acts will come back on you. Some call it "karma". I call it DIVINE JUSTICE.
Really enjoyed this video! Watched it with my 4 1/2 year old daughter. We have several hummingbird feeders in our back yard, and take great delight in appreciating their beauty and playfulness.
Bridget, they truly are beautiful to watch. Three years ago one made a nest in the Ficus tree in my little backyard. She layed 2 eggs and I had the privilege of watching her feed once they hatched. The nest itself was amazing to see so up close. I even have a Video of one of the birds when it flew away. It was a gift from God to get to watch for about three weeks the part of her journey from nest building , watching for an egg, waiting for them to hatch, feeding and sadly when the two flew away.
Right? I have a guard hummingbird that won't let any other hummingbirds feed. Also have two living walls of morning glories on the same porch as the feeder. She has claimed her territory. She is a big bully, or rather a little bully. Lol
I live in Michigan and had a wire by my bay window stretching around 20 feet from my porch post deep into a pine tree where I kept about 4 - 6 feeders going - changing the 4:1 strength water/ sugar nectar every 3 days - to keep my nectar bacteria free. Well I learned "the heck with my hanging fucia". They would buzz me when ever I took the feeders down for cleaning. Sometimes they would line up 6+ on my wire. I read somewhere that there are usually 6x as many hummers feeding than you ever see at one time! Don't you just 💕😘 them!! (P.S. I use black oil seeds to feed their counterparts in the ❄️ winter 🥶!
I have a feeder thats never empty. When they know there is always food, lots of them show up. I also run a floating solar powered hummingbird shower in the summer. They really like that.
This video was great lots I didn't know about. I love seeing these Beautiful birds they brighten up my day. I'm blessed and happy to have them around me I'm learning from them.😊
I am so lucky that my ex boyfriend always called me a hummingbird. So I feel that I am that person. I have my real name and will not change it as other false people do.
This was extremely informative! Literally everything I ever wanted to know about the bird!! Most of the things I had no idea about!! Like being able fly upsidedown. Great video!!
They can also be territorial. My hummers will often chase each other away from the feeder even though I keep it full and there are plenty of feeding stations.
Dood, why the hell would you have a profile Pic wearing a mask of obedience.... Let alone wearing it inside I would assume where you live, or why would anyone actually put one on ever. Sigh... The internet amongst other things have just ruined people on a large scale. Logic and reason are few and far between. But yssssssssssssssss hummingbirds are the best. You do you tho my guy. If it makes ya feel safe that is coo, just not sure i would personally ever show myself in a Pic with that muzzle on, then again I would never have one on nor be in any pictures
@@pun1382 You do not have permission to insult other people's choice to protect themselves! " Live and Let Live" means just that! Mind your own business! How do you have time to insult or criticize others? Get a damn life so you are too busy to bother others!😂
If I forget to refill their feeder, my humming birds let me know how annoyed they are with me (flying around my face and giving a stern lecture with their tiny, squeaky voice.) Do I spoil them too much?
Hummingbirds one of my favourite little birds excellent informative videos about the birds wow am in awe watching these clever birds relaxing I love them !!! Thanks for sharing ❤❤!!aa
We love them and have put up many feeders and let me tell you they are humming all over our yard. They make a deep swoop sound. Over our heads. And can be very friendly and land on your hand. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I’m here because my daughter got a hummingbird feeder from a teacher on her last day of school. I remember seeing one before we got the feeder but the kids hadn’t seen it. We’ve had the feeder now for about two weeks and we watch them everyday. They used to fly off when they noticed us watching but now it’s like they watch us watch them. Now we’re tryin to see where the nest is because they come and go very often and we also are tryin to determine which species of hummingbird they are.
