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Week 2 in the life of a hummingbird

28 Apr 2009 – 8:08

Our hummingbird hatchlings are 2 weeks old now! They were born last Sunday & Monday (April 12 & 13) and they have been growing so fast! They look like they’re practically too big for the nest already, but I bet they’ve got at least another week or two before they fly away. Here are some [...]

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Day 2: hummingbird hatchlings

14 Apr 2009 – 8:18

The hummingbird babies have been out-of-shell for a whole day now—beginning the trek for day 2! You can get a better sense of the size of the nest in this image. It’s about the size of a 1-year old’s fist; the opening (base) could fit a quarter. Of course, then there’s my gigantic thumb for [...]

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Hummingbirds make their nest

29 Mar 2009 – 17:55

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 [...]

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black-chinned hummingbird

29 Sep 2007 – 21:03

Last spring when a hummingbird family made its home on my porch (Clara and her babies, for those of you who knew them), I never thought about what kind of hummingbirds they were. I hope this apparent lack of curiosity was instead extreme interest in the details of life on a smaller scale: building a [...]

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