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Salvia Black and Blue

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Purplebear

Salvia black and blue has become our favorite hummingbird plant. We featured it in our very first post on this blog. Since that time we’ve learned a little more about this plant. We live in southeastern Pennsylvania and it may or … 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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Blue Porterweed (Stachytarpheta urticifolia)

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Purplebear

Last year at this time we sent away for some Blue Porterweed (Stachytarpheta urticifolia) and Cardinal Climber seeds. We made a couple of posts since, one showing the seedlings and one showing the Cardinal Climber blooming but we never posted … Continue reading →

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Monarda ‘Jacob Kline’ – Bee Balm

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Purplebear

We got one of these Monarda ‘Jacob Kline’  Bee Balm plants from our local nursery this year and planted it right under one of our hummingbird feeders. We didn’t get many blooms from the plant this year but what we … 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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