Humming birds

[knocker]

Ever since I bought John Gould's mighty tome on humming birds some years ago I've found them fascinating. Anyway a little video on them

 

Edited June 14, 2013 by pottyprof

[pottyprof]

Beautiful birds.  Fascinating to watch them feed.  So delicate in their movement.

[knocker]

Absolutely amazing. Consider that some species can flap their wings up to 80 times a second.

[pottyprof]

They move in the same kind of way that hover flies do..  I'll show the kids the clip tomorrow.  They'll love that.

[nitro_deluxe]

Thought I'd actually once spotted my first ever humming bird in deepest SE France one hot Summers afternoon...discovered later it was the Hummingmoth? Certainly convinced me at the time not that you'd often think as moths let alone these pretty big, quite noisy ones, be seen during the heat of the midday sun...was easily pushing 90f at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglossum_stellatarum

Edited June 14, 2013 by triple_x1

[knocker]

Another great video.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

Thought I'd actually once spotted my first ever humming bird in deepest SE France one hot Summers afternoon...discovered later it was the Hummingmoth? Certainly convinced me at the time not that you'd often think as moths let alone these pretty big, quite noisy ones, be seen during the heat of the midday sun...was easily pushing 90f at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglossum_stellatarum

 

Did you not get some in your garden back in 06'? Most amazing critters!

[UV-RAY]

I've observed quite a few of them in the Caribbean, amazing birds and its absolutely mesmerising watching them

Edited June 18, 2013 by Sceptical Inquirer