Experiences

For Scenic Sunday I posted about humming bird on 7 Sept 2009. It has been almost 2 months. The flowers which the bird visited have grown a lot. Now you can see 8 tiny flowers. See the measurement. The flowers are so nicely arranged. This group has only 7 flowers. Look at the branches and the leaves. I used to see the bird coming to the plant. But every time I wanted to video it, it would fly away. My son managed to take some of its pictures. The bird was looking at the camera. Then it was looking at the flowers. It was sucking nectar from the flower. It took a last look at the camera before it flew away. One day, my daughter caught it in action. A Very Special Visit!

Hummingbirds feed on the nectar of plants and are important pollinators , especially of deep-throated, tubular flowers. They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 12-90 times per second (depending on the species). They can also fly backwards, and are the only group of birds able to do so. I have this flower plant in front of my house. It has flowers that look like tiny birds. Many plants pollinated by hummingbirds produce flowers in shades of red , orange , and bright pink , though the birds will take nectar from flowers of many colors. Once I saw a humming bird flying near the flowers. It was so small. Hope to see it again. I miss it.