Refuge51

Thank you Ocealdia..I love taking photos..just wish I had a better camera!

Refuge51

This one was quick! It flew from the Zinnias straight up into the tree. I never saw it again.

gonzo

OMG! That does resemble a hummer. Thanks for sharing that...awesome.

gonzo

Once they get used to you feeding them (liquid nectar feeders) hummers lose their fear of ya too. One guy over on the Hummer forum has a video posted of him sitting down holding a feeder in each hand and being surrounded by at least 30 hummers fighting over the feeders!

W.M.DEEEZ

As mentioned, I've got a few females that are getting more tame. I've heard of people that get 50-100 hummers coming around, but I don't get anywhere near that many. I think they return year after year, because a couple of years ago, I didn't have my feeders out(yet) in mid May.

I came home, to find a few hummers hovering around the places where the feeders were the year before. I saw a similar photo,(to the video you mention) and vowed to take the time to "train" mine to do the same. I just don't have the time to sit there. I do have my coffee on the deck in the morning, and watch them as they put on their show.



I found the moths curious, because they just keep hovering over each flower, even though I've got my face right up to them. I thought it odd, but eventually realized they weren't hummers.







Refuge....that was def. a hummer. The moths are slow.

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gonzo

Feeding at my potted hibiscus I brought from Fl.

W.M.DEEEZ

This year? I've got a few weeks to go...I keep checking that map.

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gonzo

Stepped out on my porch to check on the dogs, and there in a bucket of pecans we'd picked up in our yard was a visitor nestled in for the night:

Refuge51

Another one? Lucky you and lucky you have pecans! When I lived in Oklahoma we'd go every November to the park and pick pecans..for free.
Nice big ones too.

gonzo

Dang, dang, dang. DH brought her in after she'd hung on the porch for days. I thought she must be in the process of dying after what I'd read here. Wrong!

I'd decided to give her a nice, soft place to "pass", so I put her on a soft towel and covered her with a clear bowl making sure she had air. Overnight I now have a towel covered in eggs! This should be a challenge to relocate.