Humming Bird Photos from egg to fledglings!

[Archdean]

birth of a humming bird

This is truly amazing.
Be sure to click on NEXT PAGE at the bottom of each page;
there are 5 pages in all.

A lady in CA found a hummingbird nest and got pictures all the way from the
egg to leaving the nest. Took 24 days from birth to flight.


http://community-2.webtv.net/Velpics/HUM/index.html

[Michael]

Truly wonderful for the link. Just surprising what mother nature can do in three weeks. :fing32:

[simple_john]

great pics, amazing how small the nest was...

[Bohica]

That was very cool Dean, thanks very much for posting it...

Slam

[simple_john]

my camera did not do this justice... i should have used my 35MM with faster shutter speed?


but heres a few pics of what i am pretty sure is a baby hummingbird or a strange breed of HB.. we have the normal ones that you see around.. but the one in these pics.. (you can not see the wings flapping so fast) but it sort of looks like a shrimps body with humming bird wings

i always thought it was just a baby hummingbird... as i said.. the camera did not register the wings but they are there...

[farmallmaniac]

they looked alot bigger until you saw the tooth pick! very cool

[case644]

John,

I do believe that the pics you took are of a type of moth that acts like a hummingbird.

Dean,
Great pics of the hummingbirds. I have quite a few Red Bellies here in Ill that frequent my feeders. They are very cool to watch.

Bob

[simple_john]

John,

I do believe that the pics you took are of a type of moth that acts like a hummingbird.

Bob


you know maybe.. it flies just like a humming bird but is smaller... a moth huh? thanks..

[MowHoward2210]

my camera did not do this justice... i should have used my 35MM with faster shutter speed?


but heres a few pics of what i am pretty sure is a baby hummingbird or a strange breed of HB.. we have the normal ones that you see around.. but the one in these pics.. (you can not see the wings flapping so fast) but it sort of looks like a shrimps body with humming bird wings

i always thought it was just a baby hummingbird... as i said.. the camera did not register the wings but they are there...

You would probably need some kind of high speed flash as well as a camera with a high end shutter speed to freeze the wings of a hummingbird or hummingmoth, IMO.

[simple_john]

John,

I do believe that the pics you took are of a type of moth that acts like a hummingbird.

Bob


you are right... i always thought it was a small breed of hummingbird..
http://cirrusimage.com/Moths/hummingbird_clearwing_moth_04.jpg

[Archdean]

you are right... i always thought it was a small breed of hummingbird..
http://cirrusimage.com/Moths/hummingbird_clearwing_moth_04.jpg

John,
Birds have two legs and insects have 6 legs!!! :00000060:

[professor]

So that is what I saw over at my son's house- a moth! Last year he had a h-bird nest on the house. I had never seen one in all these years, it was really neat to see. The thing I saw yesterday was green bodied and looked like the moth picture above.

Arch- great pictures. Amazing.

Mike

[simple_john]

John,

I do believe that the pics you took are of a type of moth that acts like a hummingbird.

Bob


John,
Birds have two legs and insects have 6 legs!!! :00000060:


ok it took me a few months... but heres some real 2 legged hummingbirds.. loving the nectar from my rose of sharons..

[Archdean]

Spectacular SJ,
I wouldn't hesitate for one minute to put those 3 pics into a photo contest!!

P.S. They even have the correct number of legs this time!!:congrats:

[fatboy84]

Dean and John,

Thanks for the great pictures and link. All this and I learned someting too.

Truly fascinating.

fatboy