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I put one of the trailcams (this is a CY65) at one of my hummer feeders, and at 7 this morning, this cute young man came. You can tell that he is young because he has just one red feather coming in yet. Keep feeders clean and up, all the travelers will be happy to find food. (1 part regular sugar, 4 parts water)
The most elusive and undecided hummingbird visited today. Little man just could not decide to dine anywhere! (These are three different cams, the Birdsy, the CY65 trailcam by Ceyomur and the Birdfy Hum.) I hope he returns tomorrow and actually sits down.
September brought a Hummerine in the evening <3. Towards the end, you can hear a baby Cardi getting dinner too. There was also a hummer on the Allura feeder, maybe this one sticks around for a couple of days so I can get some more clips and photos. (This is the Netvue Hum Feeder.)
Finally a male hummingbird yesterday! And the Birdfy hummer cam recorded him. Activity is still super low but their babies should start coming to feeders soon… There is still time to enter my Instagram giveaway of a feeder like this!
As temperatures rise, more hummingbirds show up. Make sure your nectar and feeders are fresh & clean. 1 part white sugar and 4 parts water is all you need. I love how this female chose the Allura feeder, and how she prefers one side 😃 Stay cool and hydrated!
The Birdfy hummingbird feeder has finally gotten some appropriate visitors! The weather has been rather murky, and the birds still seem to be a bit camera shy, but this feeder produces fun clips! Only one of the two cams has sound, so I added a bit of music, but you still can hear the birdies too 😊 Looking forward to sunny weather!
The vrooooom has returned, hummingbirds are back 😍 May and June activity has been low here in recent years but I have several feeders out and hope things will pick up this season.
This is from early September but I never edited or posted it. I thought it was so cute how she sat there, looking around, sipping nectar. The music worked perfectly with this too, she's almost bopping along. Looks a bit muddy because it was getting dark.
nature is abundantly full of seeds, grains and fruit of all sorts. This and the fact that fall migration has begun makes for slim pickings when it comes to birdwatching at the moment, at least here. There is hardly any visitor apart from some MoDos, a bunch of Blue Jays and the occasional hummingbird. A good time for some maintenance and preps for the colder weather. Livecams will be down for a couple of days, and here are some recent hummers to hold you over. Happy September!
about not seeing much hummingbird activity this season, but I am happy to report that things have changed a bit in this last week. The feeders are getting visited quite frequently and by several individuals. You can watch them in the livestream section on my website or on birdsy.com. I am also trying to snap some photos too though, and here are two from yesterday.
has continued the trend from previous years, being very slow. I do not know the reason, we have flowers growing, lots of habitat, water, no pesticides, you name it. I used to see them regularly for several years, and now I don’t. They have been absent all season, and now in August I get glimpses. This may be the only photo I get this year. I miss them. I used to see them from May until September. I know others have similar experiences, and I hope they somehow can recover, this is not normal. Good thing is, it looks like this one got plenty of flower juice, judging by the pollen on the beak.
very confusing, especially when you are just starting with birdwatching. They have the coolest patterns and colorations going on, and I have to say they are one of my favorites to see. It is fantastic that it is possible to see them even into fall. The calendar birds for August, September and October are teens. There’s a Rubythroated Hummingbird with just the first parts of the gorget appearing, a juvenile Cowbird morphing into adult plumage, and a teen Cardinal, still with lots of baby feathers and the characteristic brown beak.
I am trying to capture more Hummingbird photos while they are around. They are still the most magical little creatures to me and I am very happy to finally see a bit more of them. There seem to be at least three individuals. Two females and the male with the red feather. Below are the two females. The first one came right after a rain shower and has wet head feathers. I am also livestreaming two hummer feeders on BirdsyTV on my channel Ostdrossel3 there: https://birdsy.com/c/Ostdrossel3
because all of a sudden, I saw more Hummingbird activity than the whole season. There were at least two that were visiting all day. I think they are both young, a male and a female. The male is especially funny, he needed some time to fiigure out feeders. But he is also a super ham. And just turning into a man - with two tiny red specks on his throat, the beginnings of what gives the Rubythroated Hummingbird its name.
And at 7:30 PM, this little guy showed up - first of the year! I hope he comes back tomorrow for an actual sip.
I often think back on the year and more fun times, like June. June means that the Hummingbirds have arrived and the garden is coming along. I am still geeked out about Hummingbirds, they are so fascinating to me. So tiny, so fierce, so beautiful. And I love when I can lure them to the camera. The June bird of the Ostdrossel 2022 calendar is a Rubythroated Hummingbird, the only species we get here (apart from rare exceptions).
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