Hummingbirds on Nature TV

2seaoat wrote:I do not know if they will repeat the show, but it was very good on discussing their migratory patterns and how they will return to a garden year after year, and that they can live to be 12 years old.   They adjust their migration by available resources.....I think these feeders have really expanded their choices.   An amazing creature.

My wife always tells the story of my son at 2 in the yard playing when a humming bird tried to land on his ears......he had big red ears and the bird was zeroing in on his ears like they were a flower.  He was swatting away, but they are so amazing on their flight patterns and on this day that humming bird thought the jackpot was my son's ears.

Nekochan wrote:That's interesting.  We had a hummingbird feeder outside our kitchen window last summer.  I love watching them.  

Now the fireflies are out.  They were late coming this year.  But just the last few evenings, they've finally shown up.

Sal wrote:

Nekochan wrote:That's interesting.  We had a hummingbird feeder outside our kitchen window last summer.  I love watching them.  

Now the fireflies are out.  They were late coming this year.  But just the last few evenings, they've finally shown up.

I miss fireflies. 


We used to call 'em lightning bugs. 

Nekochan wrote:

Sal wrote:

Nekochan wrote:That's interesting.  We had a hummingbird feeder outside our kitchen window last summer.  I love watching them.  

Now the fireflies are out.  They were late coming this year.  But just the last few evenings, they've finally shown up.

I miss fireflies. 


We used to call 'em lightning bugs. 

You know, I had not really ever seen them until we moved here.  I have been told that they were on my parents' property when I was growing up, but I don't remember them.  It makes sense, because my parents had a decent sized piece of property with a natural pond and lots of ground cover, trees, etc.  But then they built a house up closer to the road and further from the pond and brush when I was only 3 or so and I just don't remember seeing them in the yard.  But they are all over our yard here.  I love going outside in the evening and watching them.

One of my fondest memories with my son is running around the yard catching lightning bugs in a Mason jar with nail holes punched in the top, and then putting the jar in his bedroom so he cold fall asleep to their glow.

My dad did the same thing with me when I was little. 

Sal wrote:

Nekochan wrote:

Sal wrote:

Nekochan wrote:That's interesting.  We had a hummingbird feeder outside our kitchen window last summer.  I love watching them.  

Now the fireflies are out.  They were late coming this year.  But just the last few evenings, they've finally shown up.

I miss fireflies. 


We used to call 'em lightning bugs. 

You know, I had not really ever seen them until we moved here.  I have been told that they were on my parents' property when I was growing up, but I don't remember them.  It makes sense, because my parents had a decent sized piece of property with a natural pond and lots of ground cover, trees, etc.  But then they built a house up closer to the road and further from the pond and brush when I was only 3 or so and I just don't remember seeing them in the yard.  But they are all over our yard here.  I love going outside in the evening and watching them.

One of my fondest memories with my son is running around the yard catching lightning bugs in a Mason jar with nail holes punched in the top, and then putting the jar in his bedroom so he cold fall asleep to their glow.

My dad did the same thing with me when I was little.