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Uploaded by on Jul 4, 2007

Mother and two baby hummingbirds in their nest shot through a window at my in-laws home in Tippecanoe County Indiana. At the 4:15 mark one baby demonstrates their projectile method of eliminating excrement from the nest.

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  • Beautiful...

    at 4:20 I believe I answered my first question! Yes Red Bud Tree.

    Questions.. regarding the tree the hummers are nesting in. Could this be an Eastern Red Bud Tree? (I believe it is by the seeds pods, however the leaf is normally heart shaped with the wind blowing I can not be certain.

    One other question, the nest's height above the ground in feet please.

  • Yes, it's a Red Bud tree. I extended the camera over my head to shoot this at nest level from a second floor window so the nest is about 12-13 feet off the ground. The birds at the end of the video at the feeder and in the tree are the babies right before the left that September.

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  • be sure not to feed sugar-water to your birds it will kill them. The nectar in the humming bird packets sold at the store works just fine......

  • Thank you for this beautiful gift.

  • Breathtaking. I am full of awe and wonder. Thankyou for this beautiful video. The music is a lovely match.

  • Mother Nature at her finest...awesome vid and also rare.

  • I love the way the adult bird bobs its whole body from side to side when it's on the nest, as if it can barely stand to sit still :) Lovely video and music, you're a true artist.

  • Amazing. watched the whole thing with my 6 year old son.

  • Beautiful!

  • Lovely video! Dear little birds they are!

  • Wow, what a wonderful sequence of shots. Great job! Thanks for posting and I enjoyed this video. I am impressed with your patience and your ability to capture such clarity on those tiny babies.

  • do you know the names of the songs ??

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