Here are other interesting hummingbird photos...I took last summer upNorth.
This is an adult male dealing with the white faced hornets that plague the feeders. The males tend to have shorter beaks than the females, since the females have to feed the chicks. The males don't.
I have an electrical tennis racket thingey that I zap those hornets with...I move the feeder to where I sit and kill several each day, then put the feeder back. It seems to give the poor birds a breather.
the second photo is a chick newly fledged from last summer sitting on the clothesline on our dock resting, grooming and stretching...quite near to where I was sitting with my camera. The fledglings tend to sit around alot as they are not yet strong enough for lots of flying.
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Weezie looking at petunias 8.25.2017
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