the current Phoebe did not return to her two newly hatched
chicks, this cycle. So they were given to a licensed rehab place which reared them to fledging.

Today they are being brought back to the yard with the large rose bush and being released in Calif.

Here is the link:

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In about 2 hrs this will be done and we might see something on the cam.

Those who followed Pheobe might be interested. No one knows what happened to this current female but here chicks will live on.

Here is the Facebook link:

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the release was very quick....

The getting ready for the release was NOT quick! LOL

Once everything was in position, and the cam moved and adjusted and wifi fixed, resolution changed... then they were ready.

Monique the rehab specialist wanted her own photos, and then they unzipped the nylon enclosure (which I found quite spiffy)
after the hummers ate some nutrients from a special feeder.

One zipped right out immediately and the other also but flew up to the top of the umbrella. It stayed there for a few minutes then after deciding what to do it flew out to some red flowers. The resident male, then chased both away licketysplit!

The cam is now back on the feeder, and perhaps the babies will come to that. I sure hope they don't get low in food and weak. We see that upNorth fairly often, and those get too weak to fly.
We have rescued 2 of them in separate August times, in the recent years. Once fed with sugar solution, they perk up again and take off. The young are fed by the mother longer than most books report IMO. So I hope these two do well . I'd have left them at least one night in the enclosure, where food was available until they were settled a bit more. I hope the owner has more than the one feeder out there. That territorial male can make life hard on the new fledglings if it is the only one.
UpNorth we have at least 3 feeders for bully hummers.

There are video replays of the release on Facebook today.
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Today's Facebook had a message from the fellow who ran
the Hummingbird cam in California.

He is moving and has to discontinue this wonderful cam.

Besides the fact, the second nest this season, was abandoned also and the hatchlings given to a rehab specialist to raise, again.
Something was scaring off the hummingbird mother or some other reason exists for this abandoning of the nests lately.

It was wonderful and generous while it lasted. I know I learned a lot from watching each hummer raise a brood.