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    Tucson Hummingbird Camera

    http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tucson-hummercam Hummingbird feeder in our backyard / Catalina Foothills/ Tucson, AZ
 I currently have thirteen feeders spread throughout the yard and backwoods. 
The birds all have their favorite feeders and locations. 
 Often I remove some feeders to draw the...
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    Video--->Verdin & Hummingbirds

    Around the holidays we are often blessed with little nectar loving Verdin. I believe here in Tucson we are close to the limit of their northern-most range. And best of all there are many and they are mating and nesting now. Their voice is always the first to alert all the other feeding birds of...
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    Black-chinned Hummingbird Nesting

    Tucson, Arizona Black-chinned hummingbird momma building a nest, incubating eggs, feeding young and babies fly off. VIDEO: https://youtu.be/PfgVE-ABAAc One day I was looking out my bathroom window and I saw a pine tree that had some busy hummingbird activity. I tried to rig up and video...
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    Nesting relationship between Cooper's Hawk and Black-chinned Hummingbirds

    An ornithologist whose specialty is hummingbirds led the public television show Nature on an expedition to the Chiricahua Mountains. The goal was to find out more about the tiny bird’s approach to finding safe places to nest...
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    Video---Three hummingbirds in thirteen minutes

    I normally have thirteen hummingbird feeders in the yard but this time I removed them all except the window feeder. I set up a Panasonic G3 and let it record for a while. I then condensed the three hours down to an interesting thirteen minutes of Costa's, Anna's and Broad-billed...
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    To Boil Water Or Not ???

    Often you wonder “Do I need to boil the water for my hummingbird nectar”? Water is indeed a large issue as we humans feed hummers. If you are feeding hummers please be cognizant of what goes into their feeder. Some people use city water, some use via a water softener/ conditioner/ reverse...
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    Hummingbird Taxonomic numbering?

    I am looking for a hummer only listing/ checklist utilizing taxonomic numbering or abbreviation code. I am working on a SQL Server online visual database for hummers and need to have each image & video file-name correlate to the specific species number. Databases love numbers so if each species...
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    Alexander Wilson's Account of 'Humming Bird'

    I was reading my December, 2014 "Wilson Journal of Ornithology", published by the Wilson Ornithological Society. And I have noticed that each issue for the last year has an article about Alexander Wilson, Father of American Ornithology. From 1803 to his death in 1813, Alexander Wilson traveled...
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    Where have the hummers gone?

    Folks ask us, at different times throughout the year, “What has happened to all my hummers"? It seems that the number of hummingbirds we attract to our feeders varies greatly through the cycle of a year’s time. While they may have had record numbers feeding in their backyards for the previous...
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    Thoughts about Bees on feeders

    Hummingbird feeders come in many configurations. Some are very good at preventing bees and some would be better called " bee feeders. However, remember that bees and wasps share and compete for nectar at flowers and feeders yet both seem to survive. Bees, especially yellow jackets, wasps and...
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    How Hummingbirds Survive on Cold Nights

    Extreme cold Our coldest nighttime temperatures here in Southern Arizona occasionally drop to the freezing mark, or even below. Last winter, we had the coldest winter weather since records have been kept. Luckily, this winter won’t be as cold. Many of our customers have asked us how it is that...
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