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This is an article our local paper today ... it's about the baby hummingbirds that are coming into Lindsay Wildlife Hospital & Museum where I volunteer. If you go to the link below and click on Audio Slideshow: Humming in the winter (Flash) to the right, you'll see a slide show about feeding baby hummers.

Wed, Mar. 15, 2006
Beating the breeding rush
By Denis Cuff
CONTRA COSTA TIMES

WALNUT CREEK - Sick bay at one of California's largest wildlife hospitals is nearly empty of babies during winter, with one tiny exception.

One of the smallest of birds -- the Anna's hummingbird -- undertakes the rigors of hatching and raising young in the harsh cold in January, February and March, when most wildlife is lying low.

You might think it would take a bigger being to challenge nature's clock.

But once again this year, Anna's hummingbirds, which newly hatched are about the size of a human fingernail, are the first wildlife babies of the season to show up at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek.

Continue for rest of article and slide show ...
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cct ... 102693.htm

I like to hum too.

Nice feeder - a lighthouse ... love it!
Good pictures too, SD.

I have hummers, and a feeder for them ` and then I also have finches, mourning doves, titmouses, chickadees, phoebes and sparrows of all kinds at my seed feeders ... and then my beloved scrub jays - fighting it out with all those other little birds – over at the suet feeder! It's hard for me to get pictures of them though ... they can tell when I'm watching them. And god forbide when I pick up the camera! They take off. Frustrating.

I make my own bird suet, and during the winter and spring, and all the birds just love it! I have to make a pan (which makes six at a time) a week! If you want the recipe let me know ... I'll be glad to post it. It’s easy to make.