Anybody else watch the Hummingbird show on Nature tonight?

fishtaco

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I thought it was excellent and I learned a few things about hummingbird behavior that I did not know. The best thing I learned was that the loud chirp that accompanies the mating dive of a male Anna's is actually air rushing over the tail feathers.
Must have been fate that show was on today because I drank my morning coffee watching a Rufious waking up in the potted tree where it sleeps in front of my living room window. I also found a nest that had blown out of a tree earlier this month and it was made almost entirely of hair from my Aussie Cattle dog.
Fishtaco
 

mrdc

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I need to watch that show.
I'm actually sitting on the back porch now drinking coffee and watching my hummingbirds. I keep 2 feeders in the back of the house and one in front. I get maybe 4-6 birds a year. Now it is crazy at my dad's house. He must get 20-30 and they clean his feeders out everyday. He keeps 3 feeders.
I am also watching the other birds eat their food and the squirrels eat from the ground. Guess they gave up trying to penetrate my squirrel proof feeder.
 
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