Arizona: For the love of Hummingbirds...

This was posted on YouTube a few years back but I just came across it yesterday and thought it was interesting.

ARIZONA -- We had hard freeze in Sedona in Feb of 2011. I had wintering Anna's Hummingbirds every year and kept them well fed.

To keep their feeders from freezing I took their feeders in at night and put them out at 1st light. As cold as it was the feeders would start freezing after 1 hour or so. I decided to put a feeder on a heating pad when I put the food out before 1st light.

 

My heart sang when I looked out the window and saw "Rocky" and "Adrian" (as I named them) actually sitting on the heating pad warming up while they ate..

The feeder I am defrosting in the pictures was outside in the front and not heated and started slushing up so I swapped feeders out and used a hair dryer with the feeder on the heating pad to speed up the defrosting process.

WATCH THE VIDEO

Fearless "Rocky" came right to the feeder while I was heating it and went right on feeding even seemingly liking the warm air from the hair dryer. What an amazing experience and what amazing little birds.

The video and all the pictures were taken through the kitchen window.

My roommate took the photos of me with the Hummingbirds and I took the individual Hummingbird pictures and the video using a Flip video camera.

Thank you Brad Sayre and David Simmons for letting me use your beautiful song "Summers Past"
The Sedona Hummingbird festival is the 1st weekend of every August. Might see you there :O)

(YouTube)