This is a nest that I found in Jan 2004. Here the mother is on the nest. I took these photos from about 3 ft. away. The nesting hummers seem fearless.
In this photo you can see the bill of the young bird.
I was very lucky to photgraph his/her first flight. Not far from the nest, but very accomplished considering he only tried out his wings on the nest rim. He never returned to the nest.
This nest I found in May 2004. It was four months after the nest above. Don't know if this was a second attempt at hatching or not.
Here the egg has hatched and mother is feeding young.
This is the current nest that I'm monitoring. It's located just outside of a window at the Palomar Resturant in Santigo, 15 miles away. I stopped for lunch here on April 29. My friend Lewis, showed me the nest.
I came back ten days later (May 9). She flew off for a few minutes and I could see a single egg in the nest.
Lewis phoned me on May 26 to say the egg had hatched five days before. So I drove over to take these these photos...
Another taken on May 26...
Here is a picture of the baby alone. He is ugly in a cute kind of way.
I returned three days later. He's beginning to look like a hummer. Mother was no where to be found even though I waited an hour to get the two of them together.
This is the last picture that I took on the 29...
I returned three days later, on June 1,2005. The nest is empty! Mom and young have started a new life. I wish them well!