Mother hummingbirds will usually have two eggs laid on different days. When a mother hummingbird is laying an egg, she can be seen sitting on her nest with some shaking alternated by wiggling every few seconds. Knowing what to look for will help you understand what the hummingbirds are doing and why they are doing it.īaby hummingbirds are hatched out of hummingbird eggs. Watching a baby hummingbird grow up can be a very rewarding experience. I thought that it was informative and that maybe you guys would like to read it :) Good to know that they were fine and flew off to become grown up hummingbirds :) I almost went over yesterday to see them one last time… and didn’t. Then she saw them flying around the nest, practicing before they flew off. I stopped by to check on the twins today before work and they had flown the coop! I aked my friend about them today and she said that the mom kept feeding :))) them and that she saw them practicing flying yesterday (by holding on to the nest and flapping their wings like mad). I also read that most bird’s sense of smell is poor and that they couldn’t smell you on the fledglings. ![]() I did some research on the “if you touch a baby bird, the mom will abandon it” thing and from what I’ve read so far, it sounds like it may be an old wives tale. I couldn’t just leave them there to be cat food and lesson learned…DON’T GET TOO CLOSE! I told my friend to keep an eye out to see if mom is feeding them. I stopped by my friend’s place this morning before work to check on the twins and they looked good. I will check on them tomorrow, but not get close to them. I hope that the mom still looks after them… Here’s the 3rd and most likely the last set of photos of the twins :) After todays experience I don’t want to disturb them any further, but I’m also a little worried about them. I know that I said that I wanted to pet them so badly (on one of my photos), but not like that! It was incredible to hold them in my hands, but the experience was completey ruined by the guilt I had about possibly causing them any harm. They looked okay, like they didn’t get injured. They sat very still and didn’t flap around at all when I picked them up. They screeched at me a little and opened their beaks as I so very gingerly cupped them in my hands and returned them to their nest. Poor things! I couldn’t leave them there…I had to pick them up one by one and gently return them to their nest. I looked on the ground below and there they were a couple of inches apart, just sitting there. As I brought the camera down from my face to see what was going on I was horrified to see both of the baby hummingbirds were gone from the nest!!! OMG, I felt like such a jerk! I must have scared them and they jumped/ tried to fly…I’m not sure. I thought that it was mom, trying to scare me off, because I was too close or something. I repositioned myself for a better shot and as I was focusing the lens I heard tweeting and saw a blur come towards the lens. I climbed up on my ladder and started to take a couple of shots. Today I went back to my friend’s place to photograph the babies. On 4/27/09 I took a second series of photos. I rushed over after work and photographed them. Last week she told me that they had already hatched a few days prior. I kept forgetting to stop by and photograph the eggs/nest. She knows that I like to take photos and that I would love to photograph them. A few weeks ago a friend from work told me that she had a hummingbird nest in her tree and that there were two eggs in it.
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