Hummer migration article

[Greywings]

Hubby's photos & slo-mo video in this article from the Natural History Museum in Houston Tx.

http://blog.hmns.org/2014/09/mean-green-flying-machines-the-hummingbirds-are-here/

[Timbersmom]

Lovely pics and video! I have never been able to attract hummingbirds to my feeders, but my mother always had "swarms" of them.

[judygram]

I love hummingbirds and always feed them every year, they are getting ready to leave for the far south for the winter to return the following April, in fact I love them so much I have a tattoo of one on my leg, thanks Jill for sharing the article.

[SRSeedBurners]

Wife planted her flowers this year and wouldn't you know it, hummers started showing up. We put up three feeders and they started doing battle over them. My grandmother used to have hordes of them at her house in Northern New Mexico where I grew up. Every year a bird would take over the nest built just outside her kitchen window and would raise some babies. We always got a thrill watching them grow and fledge. One year something happened to the mother and the babies ended up getting brought inside for me to raise. I did it at the instruction of my grandmother, but they ended up learning to fly around in her house and we eventually let them out. I have a special place for those little beauties.