Monday, August 5, 2013

Hummers - why can't they find the food?

Here are some of the hummingbird photos where they couldn't find the nectar, I've never seen them do this before:




 








Finally!

It was fun watching them, but I did feel bad for the poor birds.  Mostly the Rufous has been here lately, and he knows exactly where to go. 

WELCOME to our newest follower, Skylady whose blog is RV There Yet?  She and her husband, RV - yes, those are his initials - retired and moved from the Washington, DC area to Florida, then decided they weren't ready to settle down yet.  Skylady suggested RVing, and to her surprise, her husband agreed!  Or as she says in her blog, she almost croaked when he agreed with her.  They have been full-timing since 2007 and are still going strong in their Class A Tiffen motor home. Check out her blog to see where they recently had lunch - very interesting!  Welcome aboard, Skylady, Katie and I are happy to have you along on our travels!  :)  

From me and Katie, have a great Monday, everyone!  :)

9 comments:

  1. Great pictures. Do you think they are juveniles and just learning?

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  2. I've never seen a hummer having trouble finding the food. I also wondered if they were juveniles.

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  3. A couple of other possibilities are that some of the nectar was seeping o.ut a bit or tiny insects were surrounding the flowers.

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  4. Those birds had been hired by their union to be especially entertaining!

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  5. When you leave that spot you're going to have to put someone else in charge of hanging out feeders. Or, you're going to have to take the hummingbirds with you.

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  6. Very interesting pictures. Never seen anything like that!

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  7. I wonder if they have never seen a feeder before. That would have been hard to watch. Your pictures were incredible. Loved them.

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  8. I wonder if they have never seen a feeder before. That would have been hard to watch. Your pictures were incredible. Loved them.

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