#hummingbird nest

[fatchance]

The gang's all here. The second hummer chick hatched yesterday, and mom is busy making refueling flights. The babies will develop rapidly, and fledge in about eighteen days. I'll try to get a few shots, but I'm reluctant to be overly present. I keep my distance when the mother bird is at the nest, and only approach the chicks for a few seconds when she is away feeding.

Broad-billed hummingbird / colibrí pico ancho (Cynanthus latirostris) in Sierra Vista, Arizona.

[artemlegere]

"No class of artists excels the hummingbirds. Their nests are wonders of beauty, delicacy, and architecture-plant down and dried flower petals hold together with silvery spider's web, exquisitely decorated with greyish-white lichens." ~ Royal Dixon, "Feathered Artists," The Human Side of Birds, 1917

Brazilian Hummingbirds

Artist: Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819-1904)

The American painter Martin Johnson Heade started out as a portraitist and took up landscape painting late in life. He spent three years travelling around Europe during his formative years. This first Grand Tour marked the start of an itinerant lifestyle which he continued to lead throughout his entire existence. From 1840 to 1859 he lived in Philadelphia, New York, Saint Louis, Chicago, Trenton and Providence. His second trip to Europe at the end of the 1840s brought about a shift in his style towards a more sophisticated type of genre painting. He moved to New York about 1859; there he came into contact with other landscape artists such as his lifelong friend Frederic E. Church and began to paint landscapes. Despite exhibiting his work at the National Academy of Design on several occasions, he never became a member and nor was he particularly involved in the New York art scene.

Heade’s mature style, characterised by great precision and luminosity and influenced by the work of Lane, whom he may have known, was later dubbed Luminism. The numerous scenes conveying the calm and splendour of the salt marshes are the compositions that have earned him greater fame. This marshy ground provided Heade with the opportunity to capture changes in the atmosphere and light.

Possibly encouraged by his friend Church, Heade travelled to Central and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Panama and Jamaica) three times between 1860 and 1870. During these trips he painted exotic flowers and birds, in addition to scenery. The combination of these motifs resulted in his original still-life paintings of orchids and hummingbirds in tropical settings, which are acknowledged as the most original part of his oeuvre.

In 1883, at the age of sixty-four, Heade married and moved to Saint Augustine, Florida, where he continued to paint the tropical flowers that grew there. He died there years later, completely forgotten by the art world.

[wingedjewels]

Hummingbird Nest by Martin Passchier Via Flickr: This nest is about the size of a golf ball. Hit the letter L on your keyboard and then press F11 to enjoy full HD on your monitor screen.

[laimelady]

Hummingbird Nest by Martin Passchier Via Flickr: This nest is about the size of a golf ball. Hit the letter L on your keyboard and then press F11 to enjoy full HD on your monitor screen.

[cincinnatus-sea]

Hummingbebes!

[tockamybeloved]

In the last storm, the nest fell from weak supporting branches. Thankfully all the hummingbirds fledged.  

[teacupchimera]

randomly got inspired to do this little painting of a hummingbird on her nest! done in just under 2 hours :>

please reblog if you enjoy! <3

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[anbuselvi1]

How to Make Hummingbird Food

How to Make Hummingbird Food

How to Make Hummingbird Food The apodiform bird feeder I’ve persisted the structure is one of all my sudden joys in life. I originally decorated it as a result of hummingbirds unbroken checking out a selected spot-I’m convinced my house’s previous house owners decorated a feeder there-and each summer they show up once more and demand I feed them. So I do. The garden store sells bottles of…

[nemfrog]

Hummingbirds take care of their nest. Garden-land. 1907.

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[simply-beautiful-world]

[fatchance]

Mama hummingbird.

Rivoli’s hummingbird / colibrí magnífico (Eugenes fulgens), nesting at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, Cochise County, Arizona.

As with most hummingbirds, the males' parental contributions to the circle of life are (ahem) scant. They contribute nothing to nest building, brooding, or care and feeding nestlings. You can see a picture of a male Rivoli's here.

[lionfloss]

Anna's Hummingbird nest

[wingedjewels]

Anna’s hummingbird - Calypte anna by Janis Morrison Via Flickr: Male and female Anna's Hummingbirds are together only long enough to mate, they do not form a lasting bond. The female alone will build the cup shaped nest made of plant fibres, spider webs, feathers with a lichen exterior for camouflage. It is made of these soft materials so that as the chicks grow, the nest expands with them. This nest is about the size of an apricot, not easy to spot. There are typically 1 or 2 eggs per nest about the size and shape of a small jellybean. The eggs are normally laid on different days. The female will incubate the eggs for 14-19 days. When the little hummers hatch they weigh only 0.62 gm (0.02 oz) and are just 2.54 cm (1 in) long. She will then feed and nurture the chicks herself until they become independent at 18-23 days. She feeds her young by eating bugs and nectar and then regurgitates the food into the chick’s mouths. This is what she is doing in this image.

[laimelady]

Hummingbird Nest by Martin Passchier Via Flickr: This nest is about the size of a golf ball. Hit the letter L on your keyboard and then press F11 to enjoy full HD on your monitor screen.

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

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