A Home

So we went on vacation in July and came home to this on our front porch…

Mama Hummingbird had set up house and home on the extension cord for our Christmas lights.  I guess we won’t be taking those down anytime soon!  She was a very protective Mama.  She was not afraid to get up close and personal if she thought we were too close to her nest.  My brother Aaron came over one day and Mama Hummingbird tried to peck him in the ear!

A couple of weeks later there was this…

3 baby hummingbird in that tiny little nest!  I don’t know if you can tell from the picture, but they are sitting head to tail in the nest…2 tails with a beak in between.

We watched them flap their wings and climb on each other for a couple days.  We even endured their dropping on the front porch (not pretty!)  Then one morning we went to see them and they were all gone!  We have had a lot of fun seeing hummingbirds all over the neighborhood, pretending that they are “our” hummingbirds!