The Birth of a Hummingbird

By Queuebot in Animals & Pets on Sep 26, 2009 at 7:27 am

Incredible pictures of a hummingbird, from egg to leaving the nest. It is hard to imagine just how small they are from the pictures, so keep in mind the opening of the nest is about the size of a quarter!

Link – via nowthatsnifty

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  1. JJ
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 7:34 am

    Well, I hope this bird will live a long life.

  2. FishBottleT
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 7:36 am

    It is really amazing when you see the true scale of how small they are. Neat pics!

  3. dutchboy
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    Hummingbirds are awesome.

  4. The Envoy
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    I’d have to agree with Jill.

  5. seekshelter
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    this has nothing to do with this post, but does anyone know how to update the user profile image with wordpress? their support pages only show info about maintining blogs and not us regular folk that just use it to post here.

  6. Alex
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    @seekshelter – we use gravatar.com (which is a part of Automattic, the company of the WordPress guy, Matt Mullenweg) for the user images

  7. seekshelter
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    thanks! i signed up so long ago that i forgot about that…

  8. halieus
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    That’s an alien!!

  9. rault
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Humming at birth….
    Marvelous… :)

  10. Ant Dude
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Rmeember how tiny we are? An ovum!

  11. Tony
    Sep 26th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Wow! That’s so amazing! I am impressed that WebTV still exists.

    And the hummingbird pics are beautiful, too!

  12. wit of a twit
    Sep 27th, 2009 at 12:01 am

    You know how we Mammals find pretty much all mammals babies cute, even the ugliest. But we don’t really think baby other-than-mammals cute (like these humming birds. Why is that? Do you think birds find their own offspring cute? They probably think mammal babies are gross.

  13. Chris Johnston
    Sep 27th, 2009 at 7:47 am

    What a coincidence! Just the other day, I had an urge to seek out slow-motion hummingbird videos on YouTube, and I stumbled across this little “nest documentary”…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG59PaCiiDg

  14. Ali S.
    Sep 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Baby Bird: Moooooooom!!!


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