Nate thread got me to dig up the shots of the little buggers that hang around here.

Amazing pics!!! They are the sweetest little things.

When I lived in Calif. I had a wind chime, the kind with the tubes that hang down, outside on my front deck. Anyway, a Hummer made a nest ontop of one of the tubes, and I watched the eggs hatch, and the babies fledge....the next year she came back, and I actually got pics of the nest and the baby right before it fledged....unfortunatly I can't up load them....I just have the photo's. Is there a way I can get them on here? I don't have a scanner either.

Beautiful pics, Mike. Those little guys have a special place in my heart, you could probably tell. They are just so tiny, yet so plucky, and absolutely beautiful.

Awesome pictures Mike. Thanks for sharing them!

Gayla, I think without a scanner you're sunk. Does anyone near you have one? If you dare to mail them to me, I'll be glad to scan them and email a couple of them to you, then mail them back. I'd have to limit it to a couple because of my agonizingly slow dial-up. PM me your email address if you're interested, and I'll get you my mailing address.

I love the pics!!!
I just started my very first hummer feeder and I have one that has been drinking from it so far.

Great pics! The only hummingbird I ever saw in my yard (NJ) was really small - I mean tiny! So I went out and got all the "fixins" to feed these little creatures and never saw another one again. I wonder now if it was a hummingbird? It had the long beak and colors of a bird but was no more than about 2 inches.

Kathie, that sounds like a Hummingbird Moth! They look and act very much like miniature Hummingbirds, or a bit like giant bumblebees! Check here: Hummingbird Moths - 3 hummingbird moths species There's another site called hummingbirdmoths.com that looks really cool, but be aware that it's loaded with Java applets that crashed my Firefox.

Mike, did you take those pictures? That second one is fantastic.

I was fooled by the moth as well. When I got up close enough and saw it had more than 2 legs I knew something was up; (and some people say I'm slow).

Every year I hang up the feeders and I occasionally see a hummingbird but my neighbor says she sees them at my feeders all day long so I continue to labor over these feeders. So don't give up on those feeders!!!!