Hummingbirds Love The Color Red!
We plant different plants like: Bee balm, Lady in Red Salvia, cardinal flower, cigar plant , and my favorite, a red weigela bush, to name a few. This keeps the hummingbirds in our yard for the summer before they migrate south. Our family spends hours watching their acrobatic antics while we are working our natural candle business from the comforts of our home.
You can attract hummingbirds to your yard with hummingbird feeders. We have tried many hummingbird feeders on the market. They do work. And, they are just that, work. You have to clean them often.
I would rather have a hanging basket of annual flowers of cigar plant and watch them from my window.
If you don't have the space, a hummingbird feeder works great. Additionally, you can make your own hummingbird nectar recipe for your feeder. It is less expensive than the store mixes.
Start planning your hummingbird garden today.
Happy Birding!
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Hummingbird Resources
- The Hummingbird Society: Helping you help hummingbirds!
- The Hummingbird Society encourages international understanding and conservation of hummingbirds.
- hummingbirds.net
- The Web's premier place to learn about hummingbirds.
- Hummingbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Hummingbird From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Hummingbird World
- Enjoying and Feeding Hummingbirds.
- Hummingbirds: Operation RubyThroat, The Hummingbird Project
- Hummingbirds: The best site about attracting and studying hummingbirds, including feeders, banding, and student projects.
- Personal Stories About Hummingbirds
- Personal Experiences with Hummingbirds.
- Hummingbirds Photo Gallery - National Geographic Magazine
- Marvels of micro-engineering, hummingbirds are the bird world's featherweight champions.
- EPA | ORD | Watching Hummingbirds
- A team of researchers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) led by Dr. Timothy Lewis, a senior ecologist at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment, are keeping an eye on hummingbird feeding activity to gain insights into how air pollution, particularly exposure to elevated ozone levels, might affect hummingbirds and other kinds of wildlife.
- Hummingbird Monitoring Network :: Research
- Research is one of the most important aspects of conservation because it helps us better understand hummingbirds and the role that they play in their environment. By furthering our understanding of the birds, we are better able to protect them.
- The Flight Of The Hummingbird Decoded
- As it turns out, hummingbirds do have some of the same flight mechanisms as insects, which zip around in much the same way. But now researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Portland, and George Fox University can say with some certainty that they have tapped into some of the secrets of the fast flapping. In a recent article in the journal Nature, researchers made an announcement sure to please trivia-lovers everywhere.
- Masters of the Air
- Using lasers, olive oil, a wind tunnel, and advanced imaging technology designed originally for engineers, biology professor Don Powers and his colleagues solved a mystery last spring. By Sean Patterson
- Five Steps To Happy Hummers
- Here you'll find proven methods for attracting and caring for hummingbirds. Beginner to advanced hummer enthusiasts will find valuable information and helpful tips galore. My hope is that this knowledge will provide a more enjoyable experience for you and the birds.
Hummingbird Facts
Physical DescriptionAverage length: 3.5 inches (8.9 cm)
Average weight: 1/8 ounce (3.1 g)
Body temperature: 105°-108°F (40.5°-42.2°C)
Wing beats: 40-80 per second, average about 52
Respiration: 250 per minute
Heart rate: 250 beats/min resting; 1200 beats/min feeding
Flight speed: 30 mph (48 kph) normal; 50 mph (80 kph) escape; 63 mph (101 kph) dive
Plumage
Adult male: Emerald green back, iridescent ruby red gorget (throat) that may appear black under some lighting conditions, gray flanks, forked tail with no white. Smaller than the female.
Adult female: Emerald green back, white breast and throat, rounded tail with white tips. Larger than the male, with longer bill.
Juveniles: Young of both sexes look like the adult female. In August and September, young males may develop some red spots in the gorget.
Molts: One complete molt per year, which may start during the fall migration and continue into March. Young males acquire full ruby gorgets during their first molt.
Gender identification is simple if the light is right: the brilliant red gorget of the male is unmistakable. More commonly, though, the shape and presence of white on the tail is a more reliable field mark.
Distribution and Migration
Ruby-throats breed throughout eastern to midwestern North America, from southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Most winter in Mexico, Central America, and on Caribbean islands, although a few remain in the Gulf states and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Most researchers accept a remarkable non-stop crossing of the Gulf, taking 18-20 hours. They arrive at the coast in late February or early March, and follow the development of spring flowers northward, reaching my home in St. Louis on April 20 +/- 2 days. Males migrate earlier than females, in both directions; some adult males start south as early as JUly. Our female breeding birds leave here (St. Louis) in September, with the young of the year following; the last juveniles depart abruptly at first frost (mid-October). By mid-November the fall migration is essentially completed throughout North America.
A fanciful and amusing myth has arisen regarding hummers hitching rides on other birds.(http://www.hummingbirds.net/rubythroated.html)
Sources: Bob and Martha Sargent, Stokes Guide to Bird Beavior, Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds (Eastern Region)
How to Plant a Hummingbird Garden
- Flowers and Plants which Attract Hummingbirds to your Garden
- Gardeners guide to creating a hummingbird garden, including flowers and plants which attract hummingbirds to your garden, as well as creating a suitable habitat.
- Hummingbird Flowers
- Hummingbird Flowere for your garden.
- Hummingbird Gardens
- Hummingbird Gardens -- How to attract hummingbirds to your yard.
- Creating a Hummingbird Garden at Hummingbirds Forever
- Learn how to create a hummingbird garden at Hummingbirds Forever.
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Stokes Hummingbird Book : The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Hummingbirds
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- Birdernaturalist: Violet-crowned Hummingbirds
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- Great lens. We enjoy hummingbirds so much. Thank-you for the tips. We hope to do them next year. 5 stars*****
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- Found this lens from Twitter link. Nice work, would enjoy seeing some large hummingbird pictures, too. 5*
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- I like to look at hummingbirds on DVD. Fortunately I have 2 big bells around my neck in case I spot a real life one
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- Love Hummingbirds. I had a Mama hatch 4 babies on the tree 4 feet from my patio and they got so used to having me there that they would flutter right around my head and check me out...
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- Love hummingbirds, love flowers, so this is right up my alley since I'll be moving to the country soon. Great lens.
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