Birth of a Hummingbird
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- February
- 27
As friends and blog readers know, I’m crazy about hummingbirds — and I grow lots of stuff I know they like.
Ed Bonci, a Westchester master gardener and great dahlia grower who lives in Eastchester, sent me a cool link with amazing up-close photos of baby and nesting hummingbirds.
Be sure to click through to the end to see the toothpick and penny in the nest, for size comparison.
Here’s a link to some of my earlier posts on hummingbirds.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
Nice way to start the day – sitting here smiling as I looked at the beautiful little ones. We had a couple of nests last spring – one sad story an one happy one. It is amazing how tiny they are and how they survive. Thanks for sharing.