Hey Nanny...I saw a hummingbird today and thought of you!!!
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Perched Hummer
Perched Hummer
To conserve energy while they sleep or when food is scarce, hummingbirds have the ability to go into a hibernation-like state (torpor) where their metabolic rate is slowed to 1/15th of its normal rate.
How to Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden
Hummingbirds are truly incredible little creatures. Find out some interesting facts, most common types and how to attract them to your garden!
Pictures of the day: 15 August 2012
Today: Cuddly lions, hypersonic plane, and a sheep that thinks it's a dog.
Feeding Hummingbirds
Calliope Hummingbird by Joshua Glant/Macaulay Library. It's easy to make hummingbird food with just table sugar and water. We'll tell you all you need to know: Use table sugar rather than honey to make hummingbird food—when honey is diluted with water, bacteria and fungus thrive in it. ...
How to Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden
Hummingbirds are truly incredible little creatures. Find out some interesting facts, most common types and how to attract them to your garden!
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds fly straight and fast but can stop instantly, hover, and adjust their position up, down, or backwards with exquisite control. They often visit hummingbird feeders and tube-shaped flowers and defend these food sources against others. You may also see them plucking tiny insects from the air or from spider webs.
Agape Ranch hummer rescue in action! This little Rufus Hummingbird got it's little bell rung on the glass surrounding our spa deck. Hubby picked him up, I got the eye dropper full of hummer food and put his beak in it. He started drinking and drinking and finally gained enough strength and flew away! Another win for us!
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Anas Hummingbird. Interesting facts about the hummingbirds: the hummingbird is the smallest bird and also the smallest of all animals that have a backbone. a hummingbird has no sense of smell because the hummingbird can rotate its wings in a circle, they are the only bird that can fly forwards, backwards, up, down ,sideways and hover in mid air. to conserve energy while they sleep or when food is scarce, they can go into a hibernation-like state (torpor) where their metabolic rate
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Having a Hummingbird over for lunch or dinner? Learn more on which foods you can and can't serve them!
every year we get these rufous hummingbirds at our feeders,they have to compete with the Anna's for food ,and when they fly away ,they sound like the car on the Jetsons cartoon