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The Story Of The Hummingbird – Display And Courtship – Chapter 4 2 Jun 2011 | 01:28 am
Hummingbirds communicate with one another by making visual displays. Males will sometimes raise their feathers bordering the gorget and toss their head from side to side, while uttering shrill sounds...
Story Of The Hummingbird – Chapter 3 4 May 2011 | 04:01 am
Feeding; as we read in the last chapter, hummingbirds must feed approximately every ten (10) minutes all day. Their diet consists mostly of sugar. They get that from flower nectar and tree sap, and...
Story Of The Hummingbird – Chapter 2 3 May 2011 | 10:25 pm
The flight of the hummingbirds are as amazing as the hummingbirds themselves. They can fly left, right, up, down, upside down, and even backwards. Other birds get their flight power from the down mo...
The Story of The Hummingbird: Chapter 1 27 Mar 2011 | 02:02 am
HISTORY: When European settlers first saw the hummingbirds they thought they were a cross between an insect and a bird! They couldn’t understand how so much life could be bound up in these buzzing l...
Attracting The House Wren 12 Mar 2011 | 08:57 am
Attracting the House Wren to your backyard can be as easy as adding a Wren house specifically built for them. Their feeding and nesting habits are easy to monitor because the Wrens’ are very tolerant...
More On The Purple Martin Saga 5 Mar 2011 | 05:15 am
As we continue to learn more on the Purple Martins, you will find out that attracting, housing, and maintaining these unique birds are a challenge to say the least. If you are like most Martin landlo...
THE SAGA OF THE PURPLE MARTIN CONTINUES 27 Feb 2011 | 02:36 am
Now that we have learned a few things to attract the Purple Martin their housing, and protecting the Martins; we need to learn about the maintaining and management to make a healthy stable environment...
More About Purple Martins – Protection From Predators 16 Feb 2011 | 02:46 am
Once you are able to attract the Purple Martin, your work begins to protect and maintain their housing. Even if you don’t see any predators, don’t assume they aren’t there. Believe me they are; racc...
All About The Monarch Butterfly 26 Jan 2011 | 02:04 am
The monarch butterfly is the only insect that makes a two-way migration as birds do. The annual migration of the North American monarch butterfly is an amazing and unique phenomenon. They travel as ...
Attracting and Feeding Chickadees 23 Jan 2011 | 05:13 am
Chickadees are one of my favorite backyard birds, they are easy to attract, house and feed. This year around bird will stay in your yard and garden all year around, with just a few simple tips of inf...
