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Mar 8, 2012 7:58 AM CST
Name: Brian
Ontario Canada (Zone 5b)
A hummer I saw in California.
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Mar 8, 2012 10:37 AM CST
Name: Allison
NJ (Zone 6a)
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so pretty.. love the colors!!!
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Mar 8, 2012 12:23 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
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Happy Thursday Smiling

Hummies are super quick to sip on newly refilled feeders!

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Had to edit this post and add one more photo:

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Mar 8, 2012 1:49 PM CST
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
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I want my hummers! Green Grin!
I garden for the pollinators.
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Mar 12, 2012 12:28 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
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Hummie photos for today, 12Mar2012

As always getting their early morning sip:
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And then up the Poplar tree limbs they perch, sunbathe,

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and catch a few winks:
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Just have to add this photo: Not so often I get them facing square on camera:

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Mar 12, 2012 12:34 PM CST
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
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I still want my hummers! Those are good shots, tarev, especially the third one. Lovey dubby
I garden for the pollinators.
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Mar 12, 2012 12:37 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
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Thanks Tee I tip my hat to you. It takes me awhile to focus on them way up there, hard to see them..sooo small little ones! They seem to have such sensitive feeling of someone or something looking at them..they hop from branch to branch so fast Big Grin
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Mar 12, 2012 12:38 PM CST
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
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I agree The can really move quickly when they want to. What kind of camera do you have?
I garden for the pollinators.
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Mar 12, 2012 12:44 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
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I am using Canon PhotoShot S5 IS. Have to do full zoom to catch them Big Grin ... easy if they are just by the feeders, but quite hard finding them when they hit the branches. Am just your ordinary point and shoot person Smiling
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Mar 12, 2012 12:50 PM CST
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Same here ... point and shoot. If the camera doesn't do the work for me, I'm sunk. Hilarious! My current camera has great macros but takes a bit too much adjusting the settings for me to get really good distance shots. A lot of them come out a bit out of focus. Doesn't stop me from trying though. Sometimes I get lucky.
I garden for the pollinators.
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Mar 12, 2012 12:58 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
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I agree Just catch the moment...regardless how many shots! Luckily we use digital cameras..imagine the expense and hassle if it were the old mode Rolling on the floor laughing
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Mar 12, 2012 1:53 PM CST
Name: Linda Williams
Medina Co., TX (Zone 8a)
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I'm thinking that my 'winter' hummers are gone. I did spot one hummer yesterday, but it looked different, as far as I could tell. It was nectaring on the salvias.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White
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Mar 12, 2012 4:15 PM CST
Name: Allison
NJ (Zone 6a)
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that last one .. it was checking you out for sure.. too cool
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Mar 12, 2012 4:25 PM CST
Name: Kj
South Central Missouri (Zone 6a)
Birds Hostas
Janice, those a beautiful pictures. Smiling
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Mar 13, 2012 4:14 AM CST
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
LindaTX8 said:I'm thinking that my 'winter' hummers are gone. I did spot one hummer yesterday, but it looked different, as far as I could tell. It was nectaring on the salvias.



I'll be watching for them here, Linda. Can't wait! Thumbs up
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Mar 13, 2012 11:19 AM CST
Name: Linda Williams
Medina Co., TX (Zone 8a)
Organic Gardener Bookworm Enjoys or suffers hot summers Charter ATP Member Salvias Herbs
Bluebonnets Native Plants and Wildflowers Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge) Forum moderator Purslane Hummingbirder
Hurray! It's official! This time I got a good look and it was a small male Black-chinned! Those are the species that stay for the hot season here, so definitely a spring migrant. Now I want pics!
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White
Integrity can never be taken. It can only be given, and I wasn't going to give it up to these people. Gary Mowad
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Mar 13, 2012 12:38 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
Give PEACE a chance!
Adeniums Cat Lover Garden Photography Region: California Houseplants Plays in the sandbox
Orchids Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Composter Cactus and Succulents Dragonflies Hummingbirder
Yesterday, I deliberately did not refill the nectar feeders, hoping the hummingbirds will look around and go near the Kniphofia blooms. I have noticed they ignore the blooms if they have the feeders well stocked Big Grin

And finally, the little ones aimed for the Kniphofia blooms Big Grin

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Today, I do not see any of my hummies or other birds, we are in for a week long rainy weather... Rolling my eyes.
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Mar 13, 2012 3:34 PM CST
Name: Allison
NJ (Zone 6a)
Charter ATP Member Forum moderator I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Hummingbirder Container Gardener
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I tried to grow them here.. not enough sun for em.. but struggling babies

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