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Our final hummingbird pictures and sightings for 2014

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Purplebear

Our final hummingbird sighting for this year, 2014 was September 14th. That’s one day earlier than last year. For the most part, we had as many visitors as in previous years except our early and nesting time sightings seemed to be less.

We were able to get what we think are fairly good pictures with our new camera lens but found out it’s not very easy to get good pictures of moving hummingbirds. Now that we have some experience taking pictures of these little birds that won’t sit still, we’re hoping to be able to get even better pictures next year.

Below are a couple of hummingbird pictures we haven’t posted yet that we took this year.

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Agastache ‘ Tutti Frutti ‘ and hummingbirds

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Purplebear

This is a picture of our Agastache ‘Tutti Frutti’ and a hummingbird that we took through the railing of our deck. This year was the first time we’ve had this type of Agastache and the hummingbirds used it often. Agastache ruspestris – licorice mint is the type we’ve had for the last 3 or 4 years but sadly it didn’t make it through our last winter.

We have this plant in one of our flower beds and hopefully it will survive the coming cold season. It seems to us that the hummingbirds were attracted to the ‘Tutti Frutti’ more than the licorice mint.

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Cardinal Climber and hummingbirds

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Purplebear

Here’s a couple of pictures we took recently on our deck of the cardinal climber and the hummingbirds that visit every day. You can find cardinal climber seeds at Eden Brothers We grew them in a large container with about a 4′ or 5′ trellis. It outgrew it in about 4 weeks. We started putting the overgrowth in between the deck rails and it’s basically growing everywhere. This has been one of the most visited plants this year and it looks like we can collect seeds from it for next year. Hopefully, more pictures to come.

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Hummingbirds and Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Purplebear

Below are a couple pictures we took a few days ago of hummingbirds and our Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’. This is the first year we’ve had this plant. We live in an area where ‘Wendy’s Wish’ would be an annual so we’ll try and overwinter it in our garage. Hopefully, it will survive. All the young hummingbirds seem to be liking all our plants this year and most of the older birds spend most of their time at our feeder.

As mentioned in our last post we also have the Cardinal Climber and the Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ on our deck along with the ‘Wendy’s Wish.’ They all seem to get a lot of attention. Hopefully we’ll get some more pictures before they go home in the next few weeks.

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Hummingbird pictures in August 2014

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Purplebear

Here’s a few hummingbird pictures we took the last couple of days while sitting on our deck near the three potted plants we’ve grown to attract hummingbirds. The three are the cardinal climber and salvia’s – Wendy’s Wish & Black and Blue. This is one of our first attempts trying to photograph them while flying and turns out to be more difficult then we thought.

All three of the plants are proving to be quite popular with them. This is the first time we’ve grown Wendy’s Wish. We really like it and so do the hummingbirds. This year was also the first time we’ve planted Agastache – Tutti Frutti. We planted it in our flower bed around the deck and the hummingbirds like it too. Hopefully more and better pictures are yet to come.

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First hummingbird sighting and pictures of 2014

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Purplebear

Our first hummingbird sighting for 2014 was Tuesday, May 6th three days earlier than last year. The first arrival was a male ruby throat and the first female came one week later. We saw them for about a week or so then sightings became very scarce until this weekend.

It’s common for our hummingbirds to disappear for a few weeks at the end of May to the middle of June for nesting. They still visit but it’s only early and late in the day and for very short periods of time.

Below are a couple pictures of a hummingbird we took today with the new camera lens we talked about in a previous post. They didn’t turn out too bad considering they were shot through the glass of our storm door.

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Lena Liu hummingbird with flowers coasters

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Purplebear

I love these Lena Liu hummingbird with flowers coasters. They’re made of stone and have a cork backing, which will help protect your furniture. Also, they’re made in the USA. They are a set of four with each being a different color having a hummingbird with flowers. Measures 4.25 x 4.25 x 0.3 inches. They’d not only serve a purpose but would be a pretty home accent for yourself or a great gift for anyone who loves hummingbirds, pretty flowers or gardening.

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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 to see our first hummingbirds. We always put it up now because the migration map has the first males coming near our area around this time. Hopefully we’ll get some good pictures this year because we got a new camera lens that will let us take shots from a distance. Here are a couple of pictures we have taken trying out our new lens.

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Ceramic hummingbird ornaments

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Purplebear

If you like hummingbirds or know somebody who does any of these ceramic hummingbird ornaments would look very pretty on a Christmas tree. This set of four ornaments is crafted from ceramic and painted by hand in assorted colors. Each measures 1.4″ H x 2.2″ W x 3.7″ D and each has a polyester cord.

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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 the area by the second week of September.

This year our hummingbird behavior was a little different from past years because some of the time they were here and some of the time not. Normally for us they’d arrive and then disappear while nesting. Afterwards they’d be here most of the summer. This year they were here then gone like their nesting schedule had been messed up. One thing that didn’t change this year was the salvia black and blue was still the first choice of our hummingbirds.

On another note we still didn’t get any real good pictures with our new camera. These two pictures below were taken through the glass of our storm door. Hopefully we’ll get a longer lens for the camera next year and have better pictures. We do have some flower pictures that came out pretty good. If you’d like to see them they’re on our flower site

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