What Is Green, Tiny, Fast and Eating All My Sugar?
by Jenners • 08/08/2011 • Cool Photos • 76 Comments
These guys! (All photos courtesy of Mr. Jenners.)
Our view out the kitchen window every day.
This is my current desktop background.
They are so fast and difficult to capture clearly.
Hide and seek. Can you find the hummingbird?
Mr J must be fast also – those hummers fly away like the speed of light. Gorgeous pics!
Well his fancy pants new camera helped tons!
soooo pretty!!
Aren’t they the coolest?
Lovely pictures! Mr. Jenners can add nature photographer to his resume. Thanks for sharing!
He would love to be a professional photographer. It is one of his few hobbies/
Awww..my Mom loves to feed hummingbirds and when they are on vacation I have to go over to their condo and change the feeder out
They are such beautiful birds!
They are so special aren’t they?
My family is obsessed with hummingbirds! If you don’t believe me – when you get a chance, go check on my sister’s blog page (she doesn’t blog too much)….but this one is not to be missed if you are a hummingbird person!
Here is the link….just in case you have time…it is worth it!
http://kandilandblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/remember-hummingbird-helmet.html
Oh … thanks for the link! I love hummingbirds and I’m anxious to see what your sister has done.
Great pics courtesy Mr. Jenners! But, please explain — bats at night? Do they come to the feeders, too, or are they predators of the hummingbirds (animal behavior = not my strong suit today!).
And, I’m cracking up about Rhapsody the feeder faker!
I don’t know about the bats … I hope they don’t eat hummingbirds!!!! ACK!
And how awful that Jill is FAKING FEEDING HUMMIES!!!????!!!!
Not sure about the bats … but I do know that Jill FAKING FEEDING HUMMIES IS WRONG!!!
They’re great! I don’t get many in my yard.
Mr Jenners got some great shots!
I was quite impressed. I guess the new camera he kept badgering me for was worthwhile!
beautiful! and so much better than what I was imagining
I’m thinking of putting in a hummingbird/butterfly garden, I’m only at the research stage.
I thought about doing the butterfly/hummingbird garden (we have a butterfly bush), but I didn’t like how so many of the plants looked!!! So we opted for the feeders. Good luck with it!
that’s a very good reason not to plant something!
Awesome photos. Mr. Jenners did a great job of capturing them. Every year my mom tries to attract them but some years, like this one, they are too busy to stop by.
We are now an established stop for them. It can take some time to attract them but it is worth it.
Those pictures are awesome! It would be hard to capture a humming bird.
wow, that’s a great view
That’s gorgeous! I’ve always been fascinated by hummingbird. They’re amazing creatures.
Mr. Jenners must have an awesome camera! Those are great photos…I love hummingbirds!
Mr. Jenners DOES have an awesome camera … after a relentless campaign to “upgrade” his old camera. I think these shots were his way of justifying the purchase!
I love hummingbirds. And I love that where we live, we get to see them quite a bit. Lovely pics.
I adore hummingbirds! Wonderful photos!
Those are impressive photos! I’ve wanted to put out birdfeeders, but haven’t wanted the work of keeping them constantly full and clean.
I remember my grandmother faithfully refilling and cleaning out her hummingbird feeder quite often.
Usually I only have to fill them up about once a week. But these past few weeks, traffic has been very high and I’ve had to refill them every few days. Still, it is worth it and they are only here from May through September.
Gorgeous! Just gorgeous.
These are great photos, and those little guys are so adorable! I love hummingbirds, but we hardly ever see any in our neighborhood. Enjoy them!
I thought you would be swamped with hummies down your way! Isn’t that their winter playground?
I adore them! I was getting a few visitors regularly, but now that our mimosa trees have stopped blooming, they’re here all the time.
Great photos, Mr. Jenners!
We’ve been swamped the past few weeks so I wonder what stopped blooming here!?
Awww, he’s so cute! I’ve never actually seen one except in photos. Thanks for sharing.
I hope you get to see one in person someday. They are really amazing little creatures.
My dad loved to watch hummingbirds while sitting in their sunroom. Now that he’s gone, I think of him every time I see a hummingbird. One somehow found his way into our garage yesterday and didn’t know how to get out. We were trying to help him get out but he nearly wore himself out before he finally figured it out.
Aww…what a lovely way to remember your dad!
And we had a hummie fly into our garage last summer too!!! It took forever to help him get out. I was worried he was going to exhaust himself and die!
Fab photos! We have hummingbirds too, and we even have feeders, but after seeing how much ants like feeders, I gave up on them, and just planted some hummingbird-attracting-plants. I still have the feeders out though, so it looks like I use them – heh.
You hummingbird feeder faker!!!!!!
I saw a BIG hummingbird display at the hardware store yesterday…guess I should have bought a feeder and joined the fun!
I really thought you were talking about The Little One. I know he’s not green, but then again, maybe he is because he is sick from all the sugar. Anyway. I love these little sweeties. My mom has them all around her house in IN. Your hubby takes some great pictures.
I was wondering what people might think this post was about!! : )
We love to watch hummingbirds, especially when they’re feeding. They’re so hard to capture with a camera, but you did a great job!
I am contractually obligated to point out the it was Mr. Jenners (not me) who took the photos.
Way to go, Mr. Jenners! Those are some pretty cool photos of the hummingbird
Of course, these tiny birds are cool to watch when they are outdoors. Not so cool when they accidentally fly in through the front door and then proceed to freak out because they can’t find their way back out.
Awwww! We had a hummingbird fly into our garage last year and he was so panicked. It took forever to help him get out.
so cool! Excellent photos! I would give them all the sugar they want!- aww!
I am on my second 5-pound bag of sugar this summer!!!!
Hi Jenner,you got a terrific shots! I love all the photos of this cute little hummingbirds. Thank you for sharing these photos.
Well done Mr Jenners on some qonderful pictures – it took me a good 5 minutes to find the bird in that last photo.
Amazing photos! I could sit and watch hummingbirds all day!
Wow, beautiful pics, Mr. Jenners! I love hummingbirds. Thanks for sharing these!
Hahaha for some reason I had a very different image of what could be green, tiny, fast and eating all of your sugar like a little gremlin or something…
Ha ha! I imagine that most people clicked over to figure out what the heck I was talking about!
You know how much we like hummers around here. Great, great photos, Mr. Jenners. So glad you shared.
I saw a post somewhere recently of a mama hummingbird feeding her baby. That was cool. If I find it again I’ll send it your way.
I totally meant to link to your hummingbird post and then spaced it out!!! Darn!! I can’t imagine how tiny a baby hummingbird would be!
Wow, that is so amazing!
Wow wow wow – so beautiful! Your desktop picture is gorgeous!
Awesome photographs! That’s so wonderful
Don’t you just love hummingbirds? I have this artsy fartsy fancy shmancy feeder that my hummingbirds ignore. The sugar solutions just dribbles to the ground every time the wind blows.
Kudos to Mr. Jenners on the great shots.
I guess the cheap plastic feeders are best!
Wow! Cool pics, Jenners. It’s fun to watch the hummers!
These are so adorable. I’ve been taking bird photos this week too, and hope to post them next weekend. Love those hummers.
I love these photos and have to get a new camera so I can get similar shots! My favorite thing about hummers is the sound they make. Sometimes I step out the door to my patio and know there is one around because of the whirrrring I hear:)
One of my favorite things to do is stand a few feet from the feeder and wait for them to come up. I love the sound when they are right behind me … it is such an amazing thing. Their chirping is adorable too.
I don’t know if it’s the hot weather we’ve had or what, but I’ve seen more hummingbirds and butterflies this summer. And we had a possum on our deck a couple of nights in a row – he lives under our shed. No wonder the cat wants to escape – wildlife!
The past few weeks, we’ve had more hummingbirds than I’ve ever seen before. There are like 8 or 9 at any given time fighting each other to eat … and I have four different feeders to accommodate them.
These pictures are awesome, but don’t tell Mr Jenners. It will just go to his head.
You got it … it will go to this head. Too bad he is obsessively checking the comments to see the reactions to his photos!
Wow, those are fantastic pictures!
Those pictures are gorgeous!
Mr Jenners is quite the photographer. These are wonderful!!
I found the hidden hummingbird.
Wow! Fab pics – I love them!
catch one for me!! what a cutie pie and fast, too! we get bats around my house. what does that say about me?
You really should put out some feeders so you have hummies in the day and bats at night.