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  1. Dan Brown

    They are back!

    The ruby throated hummingbirdsarrived today. I am so... Blessed, by such lovely little friends, Dan
  2. Dan Brown

    First Rubys of '09

    I was blessed by an inquiring look monday at my front glass door. The first ruby-throated hummingbird of the season. A male, was about 7AM and was the only one observed after I quickly hung a feeder, and only a few times. I saw nothing on tuesday at all. Today at 5:30 PM, however I observed 5 (3...
  3. Dan Brown

    I so love Spring!

    Here on Young Road, Spring is begining to show. The Eastern Bluebirds are staking out nest sites. The wooden house on the chothes-line pole, the two wooden ones on the back yard corner posts, the biggest Martin house (usually two pair), and the smaller metal Martin box and the PVC Martin houses...
  4. Dan Brown

    Sticking one's neck out...

    Having studied ruby-throats for decades, there has been a few things that I have come to not agree with in both book and common knowledge. The only reason that I would place out filled feeders before the birds show up, is if I had never had had any birds regularly feeding at my place. This may...
  5. Dan Brown

    I am so excited!

    Folks, my lovely bride of very near 37 years, informed me yesterday, that last year, our first ruby-throat appeared on MARCH 19! Like, that's only 10 days from now! Wow!!! Blessed, I am so blessed, Dan
  6. Dan Brown

    Mating displays

    Do all hummingbird males display before the females by flying it the smilee face pattern back and forth, or is it just ruby-throats? Just curious about the varieties around you. Blessed, by a flying smile, Dan
  7. Dan Brown

    Treated wood for feeders and nestboxes?

    Hi Guys! Is there any danger of using exterior treated wood for nest boxes and feeders (mostly feeders)? Are there any fumes or particles within which could, by contaminating feed, cause harm to birds. And are there fumes which could endanger the health of nestlings, when it is used for...
  8. Dan Brown

    Personal image records

    Hi, if anyone is interested, I just posted two of my records shots in the gallery. Not great photos, but one is of 13 or 14 rubythoats and one of 11 or 12 in one shot. There is another great close-up shot of a female free in flight. Blessed, by an abundance of tiny friends, Dan
  9. Dan Brown

    Partial abinos?

    Hi, guys! I have several goldfinches (of the 100 or so visiting my feeders) that have one white tail feather and the rest are normal. Has this to do with the molt, albinoism (sp?) or breeding plumage! It looks really strange and really stands out among the others, as these tail feathers are...
  10. Dan Brown

    I need help, please!

    Being a digital photography idiot, I need to ask what may be a stubid question. Is there any way to resize images into less kb. Most of the thousands of hummingbird photos I have take, especially the ones with 10 to 15 hummingbirds in a shot, are much too large to post in the gallery. Most are...
  11. Dan Brown

    A Pileated Woodpecker

    This morning on our way to church sevices, my wife and I sighted an Ivory Bill (oops! I meant to say "Pileated". So sorry!. Our 20 mile commute on a country road goes through some serious bottom land marshes and we sighted it perched on a dead oak and then it flew across the road right in front...
  12. Dan Brown

    What is your hummingbird season?

    My (I mean "The") ruby-throated hummingbirds arrive here anywhere from the 1st to the 30th of April. Never, however before the wild honeysuckle vines bloom. First a few scouts, deperately buzzing my windows and doors and the rest arrive in about a week. The flock grows as the young are born...
  13. Dan Brown

    Your first remembrance of seeing a hummingbird

    What is the earliest remembrance do you have of seeing a hummingbird. My first was at my Great-Grandmother's house, right outside of Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana, in the mid 50's, when I was 6 or 7. She and her second husband lived real simple, no indoor plumbing, 2 light...
  14. Dan Brown

    New to the idea of cracked corn

    I have always fed only black-oil sunflower seeds, and some niger seed in my feeders, 'cause the millet and milo and stuff in mixed seed seems to be despised by the birds. I guess this is especially true with the port type feeders I use, since with a traditional type feeders, the birds just knock...
  15. Dan Brown

    A virtually indestructable Bluebid house

    A virtually indestructable Bluebird house I have taken some 6 inch PVC pipe, cut it into 8 inch lenghts, and hole saw intrances and then place end caps on the PVC. I place screws on the top and bottom where they can't interfere with the caps. I glue the bottom cap, but leave the top unglued so...
  16. Dan Brown

    Your backyard birding situation

    I live on one acre of land in the middle of a pasture in NW Louisiana. Behind me and on both sides are a neighbor's cows and across the road are there is a pasture of painted horses. I can barely see any neighbor's houses in the winter, and when leaves are out I can see none at all. My 85 year...
  17. Dan Brown

    Ridiculous bird legends

    What is the most strange and ridiculous things, that people believe, have you heard told. The top of my list has to be: A Lady told me once :-Othat her mother taught her that hummingbirds sting. I assured her that there were no bill venemous or fire-breathing birds. Another: Purple Martins eat...
  18. Dan Brown

    Hi, Hummingbird lovers!

    I am a real hummingbird nut! Living in a rural area in NW Louisiana in the USA, I am allowed the pleasure of feeding about 75 to 100 ruby-throated hummingbirds from late April to late September. They seem to remember my address somehow. I have never seen another variety of hummer here on Young...
  19. Dan Brown

    Hello guys and gals!

    Hi, I am a new member hoping to meet some new friends. I feed the wild birds all year and the ruby-throated hmmingbirds as well in summer. In winter I have visits by mostly goldfinches (100 or more), a few white-crowned sparrows, many cardinals, tufted titmice, chickadees,various woodpeckers...
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