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My Uncle Bryan sent me these amazing pictures in an email. This lady lives in a Hummingbird migration zone. When they flew through, she decided to try holding some sugar water in her hand and see what happened. I’ve never seen Hummingbirds get this close to people!
Nectar recipe , just a simple solution of plain clean water with sugar….1 part sugar to 4 parts water. NO ADDITIVES of any kind.
Nectar MUST be changed twice a week in cooler seasons, and 4 times per week during the hot summer season. Feeders MUST be washed in hot soapy water, rinsed properly, and then sterilized, and then rinsed completely again. Make only enough at a time to be about 2 inches full on the feeder.
In order to protect the Humming Birds , feeders must be hung from Feeder Ant-moats, which prevent ants from entering the feeder and drowning inside the feeder, which would contaminate the Nectar and likely kill the Humming Birds.
In order to protect the birds ( & the humans), contact between humans and Humming Birds must be limited to simply watching from a distance.
Good luck with your precious visitors….the very precious Humming Birds.
Enjoy them….from a distance.
i wish i was her how did she no how to do that
though this is beautiful. I really hope that the water was sterilized properly. They recently found out that people who are putting hummingbird feeders up don’t know how to take care of the water properly and it actually is killing off the hummingbirds.
It’s pure heaven, to be in the company of hummingbirds. The picture is soooo utterly peaceful.
i live in south georgia when do you take the feeders down?
Wow these are Fabulous photos. I have some beabalm in my garden, and the hummingbirds seem to enjoy the red blooms. I have never seen so many together at on time like in the photographs, they are truely fantastic.
To the person who said not to feed or interfere with them…I understand the sentiment, but we are damaging all animals habitats so thoroughly, messing with their food supplies and ecosystems…I think to NOT help them in addition to all the damage, would be irresponsible. But, I’m willing to be wrong…
We have hummingbirds come every spring to fall here in Colorado. In August, the orange Rufus hummingbird always shows up and he does not allow the others to drink. He sits on a tree in front of our house and polices the other hummers and attacks if they get near the feeders. He is kind of a short, fat orange hummingbird. We call him “The Great Orange Greenie”, as we call the birds “greenies”.
These photos are awesome. I’m always on the lookout for hummningbirds. I have six year old twin daughter who are vibrant, full of energy and breathtakingly beautiful. I have wanted, for several years to have a tatto put on myself that would express my love and appreciation for them. (for 20 years I was told I couldn’t have children). Just last week I had twin hummingbirds hovering over two flowers put on my lower back. (More tatto work to come.) To me it represents many things, but the hummingbirds are the perfect representation of vibrant beautiful energy. Just like my girls.
We have humming birds nesting in trees on each side of our backyard, we have to put out two feeders to keep them from fighting over one feeder. Often, when my brother-in-law comes by to help me with some project in the backyard, these birds take turns “checking him out” by taking turns to literally get “nose-to-nose” with him. This has been going on for about four years now and he is the only person that they do this with. They have also gotten quite tame by coming onto our covered veranda with us and tending flowers right next to us and using the feeders hanging immediately behind peoples heads.
Also, we have a pair of Bluejays that we feed by hand witha a “critter” mix. They unabashedly come up on the steps and let us know when they are hungry. Strangely, I have never had any problems with them bothering the regular feeders. We have bird houses under the eaves all around the veranda. There is a pair of Red breasted Nuthatches that are on thier fifth year with us, coming around to the backside of thier house to check us out throughout the day, even sitting still while we talk to them and walk right up to them.
I looove hummingbirds, have always thought they were extraordinary birds. For the past week, I noticed a hummingbird in my backyard, flying around my tree. Today I went outside to water my tree and noticed a small nest! I looked inside and saw two tiny eggs the size of jellybeans, or even smaller. So I decided not to disturb this precious hummingbird and the nest, I’ve been taking pics from my kitchen window! :o)
I would love for you to share your photos of the hummingbird nest. Sounds precious.
Hi
I love these pictures and adore hummingbirds for a very special reason.
would like to invite anyone who would care to read my true hummingbird story and why I now believe that the heart does go on
please feel free to read my blog
just because you can’t see something does that mean it isn’t there?
R.I.P Danny
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I can’t begin to gell you how thrilled I was to discover these pictures of the hummingbirds feeding out of hand. Wow!! And the reason I say that is because I’ve been having the best time with my three little hummingbirds here in Kansas!! And one of them imparticular are soo curious about me. A couple of days ago and it zipped past me, it came back and looked at me straight on and moved in a little closer to me, and again, closer. It was about a foot away and then it left. This today…again it stopped to look at me and came closer, and closer, until it was about eight inches from my face. Absolutely amazing…I actually shed tears of joy for this amazing creature. So I thought I would see what I could find about feeding them from your hand. I thought I had glimpsed over an article about that very thing and so my first search today brought me to these amazing pictures. I’m going to try it. My mom told me stories of their hummingbirds on the farm…when my dad would sit on the front porch reading his paper, one little bird would hover back and forth over the top of his paper to see what he was doing.
P.S. hummingbirds are not extinct!!!
Patty
I was sitting in my garage and heard a buzzing noise thinking it was a bee. I looked at the window to discover a hummingbird had come into the garage and was flying in front of the window trying to get out. I eventually caught him, and held him for a few moments, long enough to take a picture and let him go.
that’s awesome! but yup i think i’d get tired of trying after a few minutes, not the most patient of people. luckily, she did it for me!
And CJ is a tool.
hey! strumming-bird…do-do birds are extinct…not hummingbirds…I have seen hummingbirds in every state I have lived in…right now in Florida
Photoshopped!
my my greatgranmas house there are thousands and it take about 5 min for at least 2 to land on you i had fallen a sleep on her back porch and had 3 on my face lol but good pics
Wow, that’s amazing. How often can anyone get to experience the hummingbirds on their hands?
Hummingbirds are awesome! At my grandparents house they have feeders with sugar water in them and if you sit there with your finger on the perches and hold really still, they get used to you and will sit on your finger while they eat. It is one of my most favorite memories!
Hummingbirds are awesome! At my grandparents house they have feeders with sugar water in them and if you sit there with your finger on the perches and hold really still, they get used to you and will sit on you finger while they eat. It is one of my most favortie memories!
Hummingbirds are awesome my grandpa has feeders for the hummingbirds