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First feeder up for our 2014 hummingbird season

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Purplebear

Saturday afternoon we put up our first hummingbird feeder of the 2014 season. We usually put the feeder up around the 15th of April so this year we’re a couple of days early. It usually takes a few weeks for us … Continue reading →

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Last hummingbird sighting and pictures of 2013

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Purplebear

Pictures below are our last hummingbird sighting of 2013 taken last Sunday, September 15th. We saw one more hummingbird two days later early in the morning. We haven’t seen any since and that’s pretty normal for us. Our hummingbirds usually leave … Continue reading →

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First hummingbird sighting and pictures of 2013

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Purplebear

First hummingbird sighting for 2013 was on Thursday, May 9th one day before the same time last year. The first to arrive was a male rubythroat about 6:00 pm followed by a female a couple of hours later. We’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Hummingbird photos from one of our valued blog visitors

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Purplebear

Here are some hummingbird photos sent to us from one of our valued blog visitors, Nicole Green in Slocomb, Alabama. Even though these pictures are all Rubythroats, Nicole told us she had a Rufous hummingbird at her feeder about a week ago also. … Continue reading →

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Our new Nikon D5100 camera

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Purplebear

After talking about it for a couple of years we finally purchased our new entry level DSLR Nikon D5100 camera. We hope this camera will give us the ability to take better pictures of hummingbirds and the flowers they like. … Continue reading →

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Our 2012 hummingbird season is over

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Purplebear

Sadly, the last hummingbird we saw this year was some time in the third week of September. I think the date was the 23rd or the 24th. We left the feeders up for a couple of weeks and we still … Continue reading →

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Our first hummingbird sighting of 2012

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Purplebear

It was Thursday a week ago May 10th we had our first hummingbird sighting of 2012. Since May 10th we’ve seen hummingbirds off and on every day. All of the hummingbirds we have seen have been female rubythroats and it appears that there … Continue reading →

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New Hummingbird Photos

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Purplebear

These new hummingbird photos came by way of the new photo editing software we purchased for our blog and websites. The program came with the opportunity to download 20 or so royalty free photos so we chose hummingbirds for this … Continue reading →

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August is our best hummingbird month

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Purplebear

August is our best hummingbird month because we have the most activity in that month. The Fall migration starts for us around the end of July or beginning of August. We’ll have three or four hummingbirds visiting the feeders and … Continue reading →

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First hummingbird picture of 2011

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Purplebear

Not a great picture but we have our first hummingbird picture of 2011 and definitely happy to see hummingbirds visiting our garden. Still didn’t get that new camera we talked about in an earlier post but hopefully will soon. We … Continue reading →

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