Humming bird feeding on flowers

Humming dird feeding on Tower of Jewels. Shot at Palo Alto Baylands Preserve in May 2006

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• humming bird
• feeding of flowers
• tower of jewels
• nature

[LouisaLMak]

I am about 10-15 feet from the bird, probably zoom all the way in (12x); humming birds are tiny, size of your thumb. I am not sure of the name of the flower, but it is not a cactus, tiny flowers just form clusters. Since each flower is so small, it will not provide too much necter. I believe the bird just tries to drink from as many as possible. After drinking, they return in 15 to 30 minutes to try some more. I waited to capture this.

Thanks.

[jcmegabyte]

Looks like she tried every one of those flowers! :-)

[charmyu4c]

So Cute~♪

[madmurd]

Nice shot. what species (common name etc)

[lordpage999]

The plant looks like An echium pinniana.

[papouliot]

Awesome Video. I have a few questions. How close were you to the bird? Is that on zoom? Was that a cactus? Is the bird drinking from all the flowers or just can't find the one it wants? Thanks! That was really top notch.

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