We have a pair every year, and i wish we had more! They're fun to watch, especially the babies. When i sit outside drinking my morning coffee, they'll buzz right past me, a few inches away. I noticed them in the vegetable garden too this year, for some reason - what would dill nectar taste like?? LOL Ours seem to be gone as well. The last i saw of them was Thursday evening. Forgot to submit this, and just as well, because i need to add to it. I went outside awhile ago and caught some movement in one of the flower beds. It was a little hummer and not one of ours. She was smaller and more compact than ours were, and seemed a little clumsy as she went from flower to flower in a bed of impatiens. She seemed to like the dark pink ones best, ignoring the red and white, but she did sample some of the salmon ones. She rested a lot, on the ground, on stems and in the Nanking cherry nearby. I wonder if she's not really ready to travel. There's still some nectar in the feeder and a few warm days to come. She should stop over and feed herself up. :) Wouldn't be the first time we had a different hummer come for a few days late in the season.

I hope your baby hummer made a successful departure by now. If so, look around and if you hear chirping from a tree near the nest, that the baby calling its mother. FYI, there is an amazing DVD about baby hummingbirds called, "First Flight: A Mother Hummingbird's Story" You can watch whole sequence of events in beautiful close ups. Highly recommend since you, too became attached to your hummers. You will appreciate this film. There is a trailer you can watch on their website: www.hummingbirdstory.com Here is a link that might be useful: hummingbird movie

Great shots, T & K!!!

Nancy...GOT IT!!!! Thanks everybody for participating and hope you all got something you could use. Nancy thanks for your special additions, they will all get used, and as for everything else...it has either found a home in my supply closet or will be set aside for the next Craft Supply Robin. THANKS Nancy...and thanks eerybody else. I will be sending Janet another email...we'll see what happens....this is just a little frustrating since she was the last stop before the Robin comes home. Cross you fingers for me! Netta