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A Birding Blog
By Jared Conaway
From a small town to a big city...
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Hello all! This is my first post on a blog! Today I want to share an amazing experience I've been having with a wild Costa's Hummingbird. As you may know, and if you don't, that's ok, the Costa's Hummingbird is a common species of the southwest US. They can typically be seen visiting suburban and urban environments alike, in search of very sweet nectar to fuel their extremely energetic metabolism. It seems that it's any hummingbird's lucky day, once they have located my sugar water feeder. I currently have a very tame Costa's Hummingbird that has been continuing for months. So how tame is he? Well, let's just say he allows me to pet him! More often, he allows for very, very close approach! He typically is willing to land on the feeder, but when anyone but me is out on the patio, or in the vicinity of the feeder he will refuse to land on it, because they are unfamiliar to him. He can also be camera shy, as evidenced by his flying away whenever I try to get a shot of him. On Nov. 2nd, I had very good luck with the Costa's, in fact he was the first, and only hummer to visit my tripod set-up when I was at it. You can see my stunning close-up shots below. This imm. Costa's also has to be the CUTEST bird ever!
I'm Jared Conaway, and stay tuned for my next post!
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