Humming Bird WebCam Pictures

A mother humming bird built it's nest on our front porch. We used a Webcam to take pictures. It used the same nest as last year. It moved in about May 27th and we put up the webcam about June 5th. The babies hatched about the June 13th. They say they are about the size of raisins when they hatch. We used a mirror to look inside the nest on June 15th and could only see black balls in the bottom that did not appear to be moving.

The babies keep the nest clean, but not the porch and things below it.

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Mother coming to sit on her eggs.

June 20
	The mother is feeding the babies. She can extend her neck out very long or scrunch it up short because hummingbirds have more bones in their s-curved neck than most birds.

June 28
	The mother can put her beak into the babies mouth a long ways. Sometimes the baby acts like it does not want to let go.

July 1
	The most energetic baby begins to preen and move it's wings.

July 2
	The most energetic bird flew away.

July 3
	The remaining baby did the preening and practiced moving its wings.

July 4
	The remaining bird left the nest, but not the safety of the porch until the evening.