Hummingbird Nestlings

[Goblor]

A Broad-billed hummingbird built a nest on a plant in my patio. Here is a video of her feeding her nestlings:

[Bayard]

1. Beautiful!

Although I keep thinking that long beak is going to come out the little ones tail feathers!

How did you manage to film this?

[gaiadiversity]

5. Since the nest

was in my patio she got used to me coming and going. So I set up my HD video camera on a tripod and turned it on for a couple hours. After that I just selected the best clips for a short video.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Very cool. They never sit still longer than a zillion the of a second.

This reminds me of feeding geese to fatten up their livers for future patè.

[SunSeeker]

3. That's hilarious how the babies instinctively know to stick their butts out of the nest to poop!

I guess that explains why bird nests aren't filled with bird poop.


Human babies definitely don't have this instinct.

[zentrum]

4. Gorgeous nest.

What perfect engineering.

[arachadillo]

6. Hummingbird Video Tip

Thanks, that's a very nice tip for getting a hummingbird video.