Volume 10 , Issue 19

Hummingbirds & Elk Gathering

The Elk came down to our pasture, May 8, Thursday, the evening before the hummingbirds gathered for their feeding frenzy.

This is rather a large "wmv" file and if you have limited dial-up internet or low-broadband, you might have trouble viewing the embedded video. OkieLegacy - YouTube

The whistling of hummingbird wings (Black Chinned & Ruby Throated Hummingbirds) were in the air early Friday evening (May 9, 2008) as they flitted around -- having a feeding frenzy in the SW Colorado valley. If you login into your Yahoo! Messenger and add "okielegacy" to your list, you can see our "Okielegacy" webcam of our SW Colorado Hummingbirds.

Friday evening there were at least 4 to 5 hummers with standiing room only at our feeders. I tried to count the fast flying little gems and thought I had a good count of 9 (maybe closer to a dozen).

Here is a link to hummingbirds.net that seems to be a great site to check out anything you wanted to know about hummingbirds. The ones that have ventured to our feeders so far are the Black-Chinned & Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds. From what I have read you can tell the females from the males by the female's white tips on their tails and they are larger than the males.
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