Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Wordless Wednesday

Nest Building
Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum
Tucson, Arizona


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9 comments:

  1. I'm so pleased that you've taken off your blog preview setting, so I can now read your whole posts on my RSS feed - it makes my life much quicker, and I'm more likely to pop over and comment more now. Please keep it like this!

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  2. I'm glad you've taken it off preview setting too.

    I love your photo and we're thinking alike somewhat this morning as my Wordless Wednesday is a bird photo too - a robin.

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  3. Your picture is absolutely beautiful. That's a hummingbird, right? I'm so amazed you were able to get such a fabulous shot.

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  4. Light as a feather - it really seems to defy gravity :)

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  5. Jackie and Margaret--I never wanted the "preview style" RSS feed, but it took me months to track down the one little thing that was preventing the "full" feed. I have no intentions of changing it back! :)

    For all the rest of you--this hummingbird was building a nest in the hummingbird aviary at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum--right at head level for me. I did sit on a nearby bench for a few minutes to watch her, and she would fly down to within a foot of where I was sitting to gather spider webs for her nest. I don't know if any of you have actually seen a hummingbird nest, but it stretches as the babies grow...and it's one of the softest things you'll ever put a fingertip to!

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  6. How sweet! I'm surprised you were able to get a photo without scaring her away. And, no, I didn't know that fact about the nest stretching :)

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  7. Dawn--I'm glad you like the photo. Ounce for ounce, hummingbirds are some of the bravest creatures you'll ever meet. This female behaved as if she had a deadline for finishing her nest, and she wasn't going to let me get in her way!

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