Brynn Marie Evans

For the last week, my roommate has been telling me that hummingbirds have been flying around our porch, checking things out. When I came back from a one-week absence, we had a teeny tiny nest right on the Chinese lanterns on our porch! This actually happened before (two years ago) and I thought there’s no way we’d be so lucky to get to watch a mother hummingbird raise her young a second time.

While I love birds—and especially hummingbirds—I know very little about them. This site tells me that they may take 5-7 days to build their nest (presumably what happened the week while I was gone), all the while tiny eggs are growing inside the mother. Are they laid now? We see the mother sitting proudly on her nest—but when I noticed this before and finally got a peak inside the nest, there were already two hatchlings [see below]. I am so curious now…

Damn, my camera’s battery is dead…

The last time I named the mother Clara—it somehow seemed fitting (here she is):

Could it possibly be Clara laying her nest here again this year? Or is it more likely one of her babies, now two years old? Or a different bird altogether? This one looks a little different to me [not shown here], and I will definitely post a photo of the new mother as soon as my camera gets charged again! It looks remarkably like the photo above, but the nest is on the Chinese lantern just one to the left.